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HelpRe: Freedom?
in reply to a message by Wish Fish
I'm not sure I'd overstate a resurgence. In the US, it seems to have been used on 12 boys and 12 girls in 2023, and 14 boys and 12 girls in 2024 (per the site's statistics), which is fewer than most any point in the last twenty-five years.
Anyway. Back in 2018ish, Meghan McCain made a joke on The View about how she was going to named all of her children America and Freedom, and then laughed, as in it was clearly a joke. That's how I view this: a joke. If I encountered it in the real world, I would assume this was an example of parents attempting to virtue signal patriotism is the most generic of ways.
And of course, what is freedom? Ask fifty people and you'll get fifty answers. The same is true for most other virtue names, I suppose, but it just seems like something you'd name a child to make a point. What is that point? Who knows.
I don't like it.
Andrew
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Anyway. Back in 2018ish, Meghan McCain made a joke on The View about how she was going to named all of her children America and Freedom, and then laughed, as in it was clearly a joke. That's how I view this: a joke. If I encountered it in the real world, I would assume this was an example of parents attempting to virtue signal patriotism is the most generic of ways.
And of course, what is freedom? Ask fifty people and you'll get fifty answers. The same is true for most other virtue names, I suppose, but it just seems like something you'd name a child to make a point. What is that point? Who knows.
I don't like it.
put a smile on your face - make the world a better place (:
