What’s in a name?
A lot, if it belongs to, according to some, “a raging anti-Semite.”
Following a column in the New York Daily News that hit residents of Manhattan Beach with the strength of a bunker buster bomb, a push is on to rename Corbin Place now that it’s been revealed that Austin Corbin, the man the street was named after, was an outspoken anti-Semite and president of the American Society of the Suppression of Jews.
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writings and rhetoric are totally unacceptable,” said City Councilmember Michael Nelson, who is leading the charge to have Corbin Place renamed. “In his statements against Jews, Corbin used the word ‘exterminate.’ That goes far beyond nasty words. It’s more along the lines of works like Mien Kampf.”
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