I don't see how this could ever work. What if you don't like the current regime? Will awards need to be updated again in 10 years time to reflect the new, improved, even-more-forward thinking view?
I think re-labelling is always destined to fail, plus I believe in standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants; most successes in society are based on something in the past - even the liberal advances that will save the world have some grounding in academic/philosophical work done <shudder> back when society was even less fair than now. And we are pretty much ALL shaped by knowledge or wisdom from our elders and betters sorry, ancestors. Deleting history is dangerous, as is denying the bits we don't like. That doesn't mean we "wallow" in all the crap bits - like every human, society comes with good and bad. Always will.
Re labelling is
always destined to fail..??
Really.??
Things, ideas, institutions, political parties and a whole host of other things get relabelled very often..
Otherwise we'd all still be speaking Middle English, and using all kinds of terms which nowadays would seem hopelessly outdated.
By no longer calling awards ...
_____ of the British Empire.
We acknowledge that were not really so very proud of that episode in our history.
It doesn't deny, or try to delete what went on, during our colonial history, quite the reverse it shows were not celebrating it, any more..
There's absolutely no need to be snide about suggesting that 'liberal' advances were made with a backdrop of what already existed historically..
That's self evident, and doesn't actually prove or disprove the value of any advance.
