Originally Posted by
Surfd
Umm, wut?
Like, no. If people found out tomorrow that Thomas Edison ritually electrocuted babies for fun, they would not stop using the lightbulb. Why? Because Edison has been fucking DEAD for the last 90 years and the ligthbulb has now become such a ubiquitous feature in the world that it doesn't even "belong" to him any more. (Bonus lol points for the fact that it would actually literally be difficult to find an Edisonian lightbulb in most parts of the modern world these days, as the technology they use has changed significantly since he designed the first one more than a century ago.)
What the "woke leftist mob" would do, however, is make sure the fact that Edison's enjoyment of baby electrocution became public knowledge, so that accurate historical representation of his character could be reflected. Rather similar, in fact, to the movement to pull down monuments glorifying so called Confederate "war heroes" that was going around last year.