Spanish village called 'Kill the Jews' mulls rebranding exercise Residents in the Spanish village of Castrillo* Matajudíos (Castrillo Kill the Jews) will vote on Saturday on whether it's time to change the name of their small hamlet in the province of Burgos to something a little less offensive. Castrillo Matajudios as seen on Street View A sign of the old times: Castrillo Matajudíos as …
If so, do it properly?
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It's good that the town is named this way, and it's good that somebody got around to deciding it might be offensive. But they're so late with the change it's kind of offensive to change it now. I'm getting hints of misguided tourism efforts. It's surely not the case than people just woke up and decided to change the name of the village they've always lived in.
If nothing else, the fact such a place exists is kind of a good reminder that things have gotten out of hand in the past and can do so again. I'm not one to advocate for showing grammar school kids Holocaust photos, but little cultural oddities like this are what tie the events of tomorrow to the events of the past. It's important. Besides, things like this help prevent the revisionist histories so popular on the West.
While this is all very wonderful, politically correct and generally fluffy, don't expect any changes to take account of Muslim sensibilities.
Saint James Matamoros, 'the Moor-slayer', is patron saint of Spain, and is also commemorated in, for example, the name of the city of Matamoros, Mexico (next door to Brownsville, Texas).
"While this is all very wonderful, politically correct and generally fluffy, don't expect any changes to take account of Muslim sensibilities....." Big difference - the Jews didn't invade the Iberian Peninsula and attempt to forcibly convert all the Christians in the area to Judaism. The Diaspora also didn't force the European kingdoms to almost bankrupt themselves fighting to expel them as they had to do with the Moors in the Reconquista.
the artical was promoting health!
The un healthy action of eating chocloate eggs and lazing around in large groups hearing some body talk about peace and love, verses a ritual of getting licoured up and going out and beating up on a minority group of your choice, which is exercise and stress relive, much healther tho you may not belive that in the morning.
Counting the lumps and bruses, multiplying that by the degree of hangover you will be able to work out how much of a good time you had ang checking face book will probly help bring back some of that lost memory.
As for the name change may be change it to "kill all insert minority group of your choice" and we can keep relogion out of it.
Question about the actual story: why doesn't the mayor have the balls to just change the name himself? Seems like something he ought to be empowered to do.
Or at least just have a list of 5 different names and ask people to vote on which one they like ( with the current name not being a choice)?
Just face it; People are just no good, most can't stand to admit/use their constrained free will and will slope sholder it on to any convenient belief system (not just religions listen to Unix users) and so those who should know better, but are vile, use the system for their own gain - and being psycos if that involves hurting others then so much the better. All you have to do is convince people the "other" is not really human and the slaughter can commence.
As for names, yes perhaps that hamlet should change its name, its almost as bad as Staines Wetwang etc - but that's their choice - if they want to take it. Ridicule might help,
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