You're not going to believe this, but, I just googled and they've changed the name of Plimouth Plantation to "Plimoth Patuxet," whatever that means.

Oh yeah! That is on 323 Belmont St though.

The most notable thing about that used to be a basketball court with a high chain link fence topped with barbed wire.

While you’re at it, Google Indian Slavery in New England. And English plantations in the Caribbean.

See if any of that happened before English settlements in Quinsigamond.

Oh, we've had a few of those. Ask a long time Woo-dweller about the infamous "Lamp Store."

Where do you think the colonists who started the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Plymouth Colony came from?

I’ll wait while you Google it.

Guy- it’s a juvie. https://www.google.com/search?q=paul+leahy+center+worcester+ma&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS868US868&oq=paul+leahy&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j35i39j0i512l4.3333j0j4&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#trex=m_t:lcl_akp,rc_f:rln,rc_ludocids:14912845929835655820,ru_gwp:0%252C7,ru_lqi:Ch5wYXVsIGxlYWh5IGNlbnRlciB3b3JjZXN0ZXIgbWFaKiIecGF1bCBsZWFoeSBjZW50ZXIgd29yY2VzdGVyIG1hKggIAhAAEAEQApIBGWp1dmVuaWxlX2RldGVudGlvbl9jZW50ZXLgAQA,trex_id:Gh8E9&lpg=cid:CgIgAQ%3D%3D

Nope. There's a nursing home, near the campus. Behind Biotech is Worc recovery, with an adolescent unit... maybe that's what your thinking of? That's psych, not jail.

Dafuq? What about Plymouth Plantation? Prior to 1800, it meant a farm of any size.

While we’re at it, can we boycott “The Woman King” because the Kingdom of Dahomey was the largest supplier of Africans into the trans Atlantic slave trade? No? No one cares? Ok, gotcha.

Hiding what it actually is*

>The British are Europeans.

Next you'll explain to me how the British live on an island just north of the European mainland.

>They were the colonists who settled here and added Plantation to the Nipmuc name Quinsigamond.

Let me try to explain this very clearly: before these British people, a subset of Europeans, settled on the land, they were already calling it Quinsigamond Plantation.

Does that help?

>If however you can produce the linguistic derivation of the word Plantation and show originated in the Algonquian languages, then maybe you have a point.

Never claimed there was any relationship to any Algonquin language, because there is not, and, even if there were, it would be irrelevant to the point, which is that the term "plantation" was being used (by the British, okay? And they are Europeans, despite their protestations) before they even settled there. Therefore, this means that the word "plantation" was applied to the area by someone well before there was slavery in the area, so it is impossible that the name is derived in any way from slavery. We also know that "plantation' was a term that was generally used for farms before the 1800s.

>Until then, the issue is the word Plantation.

People are connecting slavery to the word even though the word was clearly in use before any of the people who could have possibly brought slavery arrived in the area, and despite the fact that "plantation" meant any sort of farm-type area at the time it was first applied.

The issue is that some DEI type wants to stir up drama and cost the city tens of thousands of dollars, greatly increase residents, and just cause confusion because they want to retrofit their understanding of the word "plantation" ahistorically.

🧐. Nope

Thank you! Always good to hear. I genuinely care about this city and I'm happy to be able to take part in keeping it clean.

WARL

I have no idea what you're talking about. No jail, no juvi on Plantation St in Worcester.

It’s the giant painted building with the girl and the flower off of route 9. They do a good job hiding it.

What? Where?

Sterling Animal Shelter is a great organization.

There’s a juvie on the UMass campus

Hmmm maybe some rich person wants to donate money but doesn’t like the name of the road. Never imagined the med school would change it’s name but donation money did that…

I do not think it should happen.

??? There's no prison on Plantation street.

The British are Europeans. They were the colonists who settled here and added Plantation to the Nipmuc name Quinsigamond.

You can keep repeating the stuff you googled. Doesn’t mean you are correct.

If however you can produce the linguistic derivation of the word Plantation and show originated in the Algonquian languages, then maybe you have a point.

I won’t hold my breath waiting for that moment though.

Until then, the issue is the word Plantation.

In the absence of anyone coming in with specific knowledge or experience with good reptile vets, I know the Foster Hospital for Small Animals at Tufts in Grafton has specialty care for exotic pets.

Though they are a top-tier emergency hospital, they also do regular veterinary work--checkups, maintenance, steady-state well-visits, etc.

I have personally witnessed many "exotic" pets there over many visits and years. The most recent and the one that stands out in my mind is the HUGE tortoise they were helping get outside on a rolling exam table with their human. It was big like those fuckers you see on TV. Put your arms out and make as big a circle as you can and that was this big girl.

Therein lies the problem. I'm a person who grew up here, has paid taxes here, and, apart from 20 years or so on the West Coast, spent most of my time so far here. And yet what I think is going to be far less valued than what some "inclusion" "experts" at a medical school think. Also not valued: the opinion of the overwhelming majority of the city's Black community, who have never, ever raised this as an issue.

EDIT: Alas, the ideologue has issued her opinion and then blocked me.

Obviously I didn't mean "no one" literally. There's you and the guy who wrote the report. The are hundreds of thousands of people in the city, though, so statistically speaking, no one is offended. Even those few people who actually are offended are generally, as demonstrated, petty bourgeois, upper-middle-class liberals who are mostly white.

>Source: am downtown district ambassador

Good job. I say that without sarcasm; downtown really does look nice nowadays, and it does make me feel a sense of pride when I bring out-of-town guests.