Swastika Mountain in Oregon may have a new name soon(cnn.com)
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Swastika Mountain in Oregon may have a new name soon
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/swastika-mountain-oregon-name-change/index.html
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Who decided you have to be dead to have something named after you, and what basis did they have for deciding that?
"The Governor's lobbying, while ultimately successful, proved to be controversial. The controversy stemmed in part from the fact that governor's request violated a required waiting period of five years after a person's death prior to renaming a geographic feature; Piestewa had been killed earlier that year while deployed on active military duty in Iraq."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piestewa_Peak#Name
Googling "five years after death geographic feature" gives me a United States Geological Survey Source https://www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names/how-do-i
If a monument could be named a day or a month after someone's death, that may create a Perverse Incentive for "early deaths" for brownie points...
Googling "five years after death geographic feature" gives me a United States Geological Survey Source https://www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names/how-do-i
If a monument could be named a day or a month after someone's death, that may create a Perverse Incentive for "early deaths" for brownie points...
>"I thought 'this is crazy,'" Joy McClain, 81, said when she saw the mountain's name in a local paper and felt called to action.
https://reclaimtheswastikasymbol-bl-blog.tumblr.com/
I guess when you get to that age, you have nothing better to do with your time. It doesn't sound like the current name is causing any problems. Doesn't seem like renaming it would either.
That mountain will be "Squaw Peak" until the day I die.