| Comment | Renaming streets is common, and not in any way painting over history. The streets had different names before their current ones. It's just selecting which bits of history to celebrate, and there's far more deserving figures than some folk whose only contribution to the world was being very rich, irrespective of the morality of how they came to that wealth. It's just the Victorian equivalent of having Jeff Bezos Avenue - they were significant at one point just due to their money, and streets were named to massage their egos and keep them spending it on the city, but they haven't really contributed to the world in any meaningful way. |
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