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Originally Posted by Metro-One
PS, if anything Gassy Jack should be idolized as the perfect mascot for the downtown east side, he was a drug pushing drug taking deviant with an unusual sex life living and shitting on someone else’s property! The woke poverty pumps should be erected his statues on every street corner!
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Whenever I walk by the statue, I don't think I "idolize" it, and I don't think anyone else would either. Jack *ss was just a historical clown for all we care, and the statue was simply there to remind us about how Gastown got its name, that's all.
To justify what transpired in Gastown is like saying all Japanese flags should be burned since they were one of the symbols used by Imperial Japan to brutalize much of its neighbours and the Allies. There is always an excuse to create hate for something/someone by bringing up the past, and to let this go out of hand, can become disastrous. Mob-mentality should never be accepted.
If we can't even right the wrongs of today, what right do we have to demand the wrongs of the past?
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