Boer leader Paul Kruger
In an effort to placate whiny anti-racists, officials in the Swiss town of St. Gallen have removed the name of Boer leader Paul Kruger from one of their streets.
Former South African president Kruger led the Boer Resistance against the British during the Second Boer War of 1899 to 1902, and later fled to Clarens, Switzerland as the Brits advanced on Pretoria. The South African gold coin, Krugerrand, was named after him, which evolved into the rand, the current currency of South Africa.
Now, town planners in St. Gallen say times have changed. “In the context of the time, naming a street after Paul Krueger can be understood,” the St. Gallen town council said in a statement, “but today it can no longer be justified.”
Friedrich Duerrenmatt
Theo Buff from the town’s planning department told Reuters the name was being changed “because of racist associations”. Buff also admitted the name change was due to pressure from left-wing and anti-racist groups.
In a Sunday ceremony attended by South African diplomats, Kruger Street was officially changed to Duerrenmatt street, after Swiss author and dramatist Friedrich Duerrenmatt.
Durrenmatt who died in 1990, often compared the three Abrahamic religions to Marxism, which he also saw as a religion.
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Erratum. He compared the 3 Abrahamic religions AND Marxism.
Correct me if I’m wrong but, isn’t marxism another name for communism ? If that is true than marxism is not a religion. They take the name of a great leader off of streets and they replace it with one who is a communist!!!! DISGUSTING!!!! You know I believe I remember about a couple of years ago in the times picayune I read something of the same thing. A man was saying that if he could he would change all of the streets in louisiana to dr. martin luther king street. King was a communist leader. But black people don’t want to hear that. Some people just don’t want to face the truth.