Cornwallis Statue

[james t kirk]

I don't like the possible slippery slope of the movement as I could see several decades from now people wanting something like the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier taken down because it casts Germans etc. in a negative light.

On the other hand, how many people today actually care about Cornwallis so much that they need to see him in their daily lives. I would understand it if instead of displaying these kinds of statues in parks they get moved to museums or public locations specifically focussed on history and education.

Until now, I had never heard of him.

 

[james t kirk]

Yup. Once the baby boomers are gone it will be to society's benefit. Those who lived in the most white-privileged of eras, where you could fall ass backward into the cushy middle class without an ounce of skill or talent, but yet bitch and moan about how everything is changing. Buh bye angry old white guy!

Take a look around you.

Angry old white guys built it.

Or maybe this is your idea of what is better (where there are no angry old white guys)

Or this other place where there are no angry old white guys.

 

[spankingman]

So take way all offensive statues. Then we can have utopian history as there will be nothing bad about it to remember. We can then deny that anything bad happened in the past.

In a couple of generations, they won't even remember who Cornwallis was and won't have anything to bitch about.

It's not like they teach Canadian history anyway

 

[TeeJay]

So take way all offensive statues.

You mean take away all statues?

I don't care who someone is, sooner or later they pissed someone off

 

[TeeJay]

Until now, I had never heard of him.

It's not like they teach Canadian history anyway

This is also an issue in general
But history is really far too complex to cover everything in school anyways

 

[rhuarc29]

To say that the British were purely evil and the Mi'kmaq were purely the victims is disingenuous at best. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

It's kind of funny how we have gone from "history is written by the victors" to the exact opposite without stopping at the appropriate middle ground (aka the TRUTH).

 

[TeeJay]

It's kind of funny how we have gone from "history is written by the victors" to the exact opposite without stopping at the appropriate middle ground (aka the TRUTH).

That would get very messy
In order to explain the truth you would then need to explain what people at the time are thinking and what the intent of their actions were

We already do not have anywhere near enough time to teach history, adding in the context of the history and no chance to complete curriculum

 

[Scarey]

I remember back in the day when I'd stumble out of the Lighthouse and head uptown to the Liquordome for some more fun, i'd look to all four corners of that park and see street girls and think"No ones messing with those girls with their noble looking pimp keeping watch in the park".....it was a running joke with all the lads