Good on you MapQuest!!!

Yesterday, I learned that the threat to rename the Gulf of Mexico I heard about long ago, actually happened. A friend told me that it happened, and I looked it up on Google Maps and sure enough, it was renamed. I was in disbelief, and literally had to see if this was a dream, so I tested my dream by trying to fly and couldn't fly and then I realized it was true, and not a dream. Dead serious.

I've been off news feeds for years now (soo much happier) and really am shocked such a stupid thing was done.

Then they told me that this idiot was trying to rename Lake Ontario too. I was like "that will never happen".

Now, today I hear here that the idiot actually did follow through with this threat to rename Lake Ontario. What a sad mental state of affairs for that individual.

I'm not sure people actually understand why this is just sad.

It is not that I am against a nationalist and populist renaming, it is that these renames have a clearly negative impact.

They deny the identity of the local people who lived there before us (Ontario meaning "sparkling lake" in Iroquoian; Mexico being a Nahuatl expression).

They undermine the diversity and richness of the names we use. Do we really want everything to be "of America"?

That doesn't make America greater; it just makes it dumber, and boring.

The rest of the world really should rename the USofA.

Maybe every month it gets a new name based on a global vote. I bet the names would be great!

Land of the orange.

Home of the rapists.

Good news I suppose is that since renaming things is being made common by this person then we should have very little resistance in renaming the things that were named after "them" and/or by them when they are gone.