[shaggyfrog]

This argument is as predictable as much as it is done in bad faith.

No one is calling for this person to be erased from history. They are asking that he no longer be honoured as a consequence of what he said.

Indeed, teaching people what he did and said will be the best way to prevent history from repeating.

[giardini]

shaggyfrog says >They are asking that he no longer be honoured as a consequence of what he said.<

But he said a lot! E.g., Millikan contributed greatly to science and had some views that are unacceptable today. So do we celebrate his useful contributions or do we punish him after death by un-naming buildings, etc.? Could we not possibly do both?

What if we found a letter written by Albert Einstein that derogatorialy used the N-word? Would we never again speak of Einstein, of his opposition to nuclear warfare, of his personal trials as a Jew, etc? Would every reference to Einstein initiate a conversation that ended with the mention of his (here hypothetical) N-word letter?

The end-game of this woke attitude is the death of history (since no history will be acceptable and all will be subject to revision downward at any time) and, in the long run, the end of social knowledge.