National Post Writer Screws Herself in Own Headline

[mentalfloss]

I'm paraphrasing.

She doesn't literally screw herself.

Anyway, she's one crazy cornflake.


Christie Blatchford: Sorry, but I've had enough of saying sorry

I don’t know about anyone else, but I have a bad case of revisionist-history/apology fatigue. I am pretty much done.

The Langevin Block in Ottawa is gone, now cursed with the gormless title of The Office of the Prime Minister and the Privy Council. The Langevin Bridge in Calgary is gone, now the Reconciliation Bridge. Both were changed because the Langevin in question, Sir Hector-Louis Langevin, a Father of Confederation, was also a supporter of the residential school system.

At the time of the decision to rename the bridge, one of the Calgary city councillors in favour of it promised that the plaque that would be placed on the bridge some day (it still doesn’t appear to be there) “won’t be vilifying” Langevin.

Well, when the City of Victoria packed up the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald last weekend and replaced it with a plaque, said plaque explained that the removal was done to “show progress on the path of reconciliation” while “the City, the Nations and the wider community grapple with Macdonald’s complex history as both the first Prime Minister of Canada and a leader of violence against Indigenous Peoples.”

That’s close enough to vilification for me.

Macdonald was responsible for Aboriginal policy, certainly, including the development of the residential school system, but does that make him a “leader of violence”?

The plaque lasted only a matter of hours, anyway, before it was defaced.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/christie-blatchford-sorry-but-ive-had-enough-of-saying-sorry/amp

 

[petros]

It was Borden who made residential schools mandatory with the Indian Act in 1920 and set up Slavic internment/forced labour camps during WWI.

 

[Jinentonix]

So if we're going to focus on a single negative aspect about a great Canadian historical figure, when are we going to start erasing Tommy Douglas from history? After all, it seems the ALT-leftards wouldn't champion ideals brought forward by someone who was virulently anti-gay and believed gay people should be lobotomized, would they? :lol: :lol: Of course they would. These are the same idiots championing a sex-ed curriculum that was drafted by a convicted pedophile. The same idiots who think assholes like Fidel, Mao and Che were just great humanitarians and people to be admired.

 

[mentalfloss]

Why do people care so much either way?

 

[pgs]

Why do people care so much either way?

You tell us , you started the thread , why do you care so much ?

 

[Walter]

Always liked Blatchford’s columns.

 

[petros]

So if we're going to focus on a single negative aspect about a great Canadian historical figure, when are we going to start erasing Tommy Douglas from history? After all, it seems the ALT-leftards wouldn't champion ideals brought forward by someone who was virulently anti-gay and believed gay people should be lobotomized, would they? :lol: :lol: Of course they would. These are the same idiots championing a sex-ed curriculum that was drafted by a convicted pedophile. The same idiots who think assholes like Fidel, Mao and Che were just great humanitarians and people to be admired.

There is no way in Hell today's Dippers would have put up with Tommy using his seat as a platform to prosthelytize his Evangelical beliefs.

If he were around today the pro abortion types, gays, atheists and immigrants would be protesting the NDP.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Always liked Blatchford’s columns.

This one was quite good. I agree with every word if it. The historic erasure movement is totalitarian rubbish.

 

[Jinentonix]

Why do people care so much either way?

You're the one that said the author was "one crazy cornflake" and that she "screwed herself". So you obviously care. What is evident though is you really don't want to apply your same standards to Douglas as you do to McDonald. Can't cast aspersions on a God-fearin' gay hating homophobe, he gave us socialism don'tcha know. McDonald only created a new country. No biggie.

 

[petros]

You're batting 1000.

Tommy would still have pregnant teen girls go visit their Catholic aunt for 9 months.

 

[Walter]

This one was auite good. I agree with every word if it. The historic erasure movement is totalitarian rubbish.

For progs, history starts tomorrow.

 

[OpposingDigit]

In my mind, if all it takes are a few apologies from white community leaders, removing a few statues, paying whatever amount to ensure that the First Nations People have proper drinking water ...... it is a small price to pay for such a country and properrty which we stole from them. If we could do it for the Jewish Folks for what Hitler did to them, then Aboriginals deserve no less. I have given great thought about leaving my house to some First Nations family when I die.

 

[petros]

We? We who? How many hectares did you steal? I had to buy mine.

 

[Decapoda]

So if we're going to focus on a single negative aspect about a great Canadian historical figure, when are we going to start erasing Tommy Douglas from history?

Good question. But we have to go further than that...much further.

Below is a list of all Canadian Prime Ministers who served while residential schools were in operation.

Sir John Alexander Macdonald
Alexander Mackenzie
Sir John Abbott
Sir John Thompson
Sir Mackenzie Bowell
Sir Charles Tupper, 1st Baronet
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Sir Robert Laird Borden
Arthur Meighen
W.L. Mackenzie King
Arthur Meighen
Richard Bedford Bennett
Louis Saint Laurent
John G. Diefenbaker
Lester B. Pearson
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joe Clark
John N. Turner
Brian Mulroney
Kim Campbell
Jean Chrétien
Paul Martin

The Indian Act was revised many times through the years (29 by my count, post-confederation), and all of these PM's prior to Stephen Harper condoned and supported the Residential School System during their terms. As such, if we are to measure historical performance and achievement through the lens of current social moral standard, there is not a single name on this list which should be spared. Schools, airports, mountain peaks...institutions of all types which bear the names of any of these PMs need to immediately be dismantled or renamed in an effort to erase the historical wrongs of this country.

As well, in addition to Residential Schools, John A MacDonald was also responsible for linking East and West by way of the Trans Continental Railroad. This must be immediately mothballed and dismantled if we are to erase his legacy from the historical record.


"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."-George Orwell

 

[OpposingDigit]

All I need do is to review just how badly we have treated the North American Indians during my lifetime of 70 plus years. I feel very guilty about it as it stares me in the face every single day ..... for a lifetime.

 

[Decapoda]

All I need do is to review just how badly we have treated the North American Indians during my lifetime of 70 plus years. I feel very guilty about it as it stares me in the face every single day ..... for a lifetime.

So what will take away all that guilt? Giving up or ignoring this country's history won't. In fact, ignoring historical mistakes of the past does a disservice to the future.

Maybe walking in front of a bus?? I don't know.

 

[petros]

All I need do is to review just how badly we have treated the North American Indians during my lifetime of 70 plus years. I feel very guilty about it as it stares me in the face every single day ..... for a lifetime.

The English treated everyone who wasn't English like shit.

They tried to beat the culture out of all non-English children in school.

They treated the working adults like slaves.

Don't give me any of this "we" bullshit.

 

[White_Unifier]

Maybe a simpler solution would be to keep the present English and French names for schools, buildings, bridges, etc. but give them different names in the indigenous languages. Kind of like how Persians refer to the Persian Gulf but some Arabs refer to the same gulf as the Arab Gulf in their language. That way, everyone is happy.

 

[Curious Cdn]

The English treated everyone who wasn't English like shit.

They tried to beat the culture out of all non-English children in school.

They treated the working adults like slaves.

Don't give me any of this "we" bullshit.

So, that excuses anti-English bigotry?

 

[Walter]

All I need do is to review just how badly we have treated the North American Indians during my lifetime of 70 plus years. I feel very guilty about it as it stares me in the face every single day ..... for a lifetime.

Go ahead, I feel no guilt for something I did not do.