The Woke-ness Monster Wrote:
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> I thought our conversation was being limited to
> commemorative locomotives. Thus far, there has
> been no locomotive painted in a unique paint
> scheme to honor straight white men, and we all
> know there never will be. As I mentioned, years
> ago KCS painted some of their units solid white,
> but that was in a pre-bleeding heart liberal,
> woke, progressive, politically correct, corporate
> pandering era when railroads painted locomotives
> without a concern for identity politics.
>
> As for the earlier era you mentioned where
> straight white males were honored, it was probably
> deservedly so. James J. Hill built the Great
> Northern, John Stevens found a way over the
> Cascade mountains, William Hood designed the
> Tehachapi Loop . . . are you suggesting that, in
> the name of political correctness, all of the
> recognition should have been bestowed on
> people-of-color who didn't contribute nearly as
> much, merely because of the color of their skin?
> Thankfully, woke politics and political
> correctness didn't plague that era like it does
> now and, besides, that would have been going
> against what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of
> in his 1963 speech. These days we practice just
> to opposite of what he was talking about regarding
> skin color and content of character.
>
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How long are you gonna keep beating this dead horse?