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I _suspect_ the impetus here is slightly different. Reading the linked blog the driving feature of this request seems to be more one of "re-asserting ownership and power" than one of "purifying and isolating cultures and bloodlines". And there are definitely reasons for people to want to assert their value and ownership. That said, I think the end result will be a more _literal_ erasure of these cultures as reminders that anything was here before the Denny's was erected are removed from common culture and parlance. But maybe a "smaller, purer" awareness is what the instigators want?


Re-asserting ownership and power is, maybe somewhat not completely obvious, exactly how the far right historically branded their calls for cultural isolation.


The problem with such isolationist tendencies is that at some point it becomes everyone shouting "dibs!".


> driving feature of this request seems to be more one of "re-asserting ownership and power"

If that were the case it seems like the name change would assert that more than just a logo change. But that's not what happened.


In this case it's the "goals of the people asking for the change" not the "goals of the people delivering the change".




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