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Originally Posted by phil235
Not a fan either, and think that he was quite likely a bad and corrupt person. But isn't this kind of indicative of the problem? Regardless of anything else he did, doesn't founding the country have to rank as far and away the biggest and most important part of his legacy? Most public figures have complex legacies, and I see it as distorting history to focus only on terrible policies. Whatever he was as a person (and let's be honest, we'll never know for sure), he did accomplish some incredibly important things that should be recognized.
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We are on the same page, but his name is still mud.
There is still for the moment stuff named for him like a court(?) building but we'll see how that goes.
The idea of a capital with nothing named for the founder of the country seems weird to me.
Unless you go through a radical transformation like South Africa did.
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