What an oversight, naming streets after historical figures who were not paragons of virtue in every single way imaginable.
Imagine naming a square after a man who publicly opposed the Nazis without first checking to make sure he didn’t have antisemitic views — I mean, it’s not like he tried to deny it: he even *apologized* for his antisemitism, so we all knew he was an antisemite and yet they still named a square in his honour just because he wrote that poem about “First they came for the socialists…” Never mind the fact that he went on a personal journey, starting out supporting the Nazis but then coming to oppose them and completely change his views on nearly everything and redeeming himself in the end: none of that counts, because he said nasty things about Jews and neglected to be a perfect human being in every respect from the day he was born.
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What an oversight, naming streets after historical figures who were not paragons of virtue in every single way imaginable.
Imagine naming a square after a man who publicly opposed the Nazis without first checking to make sure he didn’t have antisemitic views — I mean, it’s not like he tried to deny it: he even *apologized* for his antisemitism, so we all knew he was an antisemite and yet they still named a square in his honour just because he wrote that poem about “First they came for the socialists…” Never mind the fact that he went on a personal journey, starting out supporting the Nazis but then coming to oppose them and completely change his views on nearly everything and redeeming himself in the end: none of that counts, because he said nasty things about Jews and neglected to be a perfect human being in every respect from the day he was born.