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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
We are facing sad, sad, times when we want to erase our history. History is full of warts and that is part of what makes it interesting. As we sanitize it, there is nothing left worth remembering. We end up losing the context of history when big parts of it become taboo.
I find it odd how we want to erase Sir John A. MacDonald when we are in the nation's capital. Without him, Canada would not likely exist. We change Sir John A parkway, so why would we retain the Sir Georges Etienne Cartier Parkway? The next step is to erase all the Fathers of Confederation, and on and on it goes.
This is a slippery slope, because 'colonialism' has become vogue. But doesn't 'colonialism' apply to everybody who is not indigenous? So nothing is worth remembering unless it is indigenous.
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Did I miss something? I thought the topic at hand was changes to the names of a few things around town? Stuff changes names all the time for a bunch of reasons. For example, the Ottawa River Parkway's name was changed to SJAM Parkway in 2012 via a blatant and self-serving political hack move by the Harper government. I think if we changed the name back to Ottawa River Parkway, it's highly unlikely people would suddenly forget who Sir John A. was. I think maybe you can un-clutch the pearls here just a little bit. Literally nobody's talking about erasing history.