It should not be surprising that the Daily Mail, which is a conservative British tabloid, partly shown by the columns from Piers Morgan and Meghan McCain that they run, regularly features articles critical and biased against liberals and the Biden Presidential administration. They do report the news, when they have to, so they aren't nearly as bad as Fox News and company.
But they are biased. They've adopted Bidenflation for the current inflationary trend the U.S. is experiencing, even though to blame everything on Biden and his administration is way off the mark, given the war in Ukraine, supply chain problems, Chinese production problems, shipping bottlenecks, and more.
Another thing that the Daily Mail does is label things "woke" -- such as liberal district attorneys, school boards that are lenient on gender identity, anti-racism measures, efforts to control obvious misogyny, etc. In fact, there's an article here about everything the Daily Mail labels "woke". It's somewhat humorous.
But this one is too much. Because there are numerous places that were named before there was an awareness of the offensiveness of the name, and changes have been happening for years, long before this one. And there is actually a committee to address this issue. Think of Denali for Mount McKinley, the Haida Gwaii archipelago for the Queen Charlotte Islands, Uluru for Ayer's Rock. Changing these names is not "woke", it recognizes the historical wrongs of colonialism and the persecution and deprivation practiced on native communities in numerous countries.
So, this article is way off-base.
Given the Daily Mail's editorial outlook, they'd probably think it was "woke" to rename Grandstaff Canyon from what it was before -- Negro Bill Canyon. (And the original name was a word starting with "n" that was more offensive than "Negro".)
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