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[Fun For All]

If you're going to name a school etc after someone you better be sure they have a clean past, at least something that won't come back to haunt you...

Same thing with athletes, go ahead and buy jersey of your favourite player...haven't seen an OJ Simpson jersey in awhile.

 

[TeeJay]

Surprised noone commented

Ryerson statue was toppled by the crazies

Egerton Ryerson statue will not be replaced after being pulled down, university says | Globalnews.ca

The statue has been the subject of criticism for several years amid calls for Canada to reconcile its history of colonialism and treatment of Indigenous people.

globalnews.ca

 

[luvyeah]

Surprised noone commented

Ryerson statue was toppled by the crazies

Egerton Ryerson statue will not be replaced after being pulled down, university says | Globalnews.ca

The statue has been the subject of criticism for several years amid calls for Canada to reconcile its history of colonialism and treatment of Indigenous people.

globalnews.ca

https://twitter.com/x/status/1401712687642517507

These are the people who were too stupid to attend Ryerson. Please don't bully retards!

 

[luvyeah]

 

[explorerzip]

I saw a woman who is the daughter of a residential school victim. Who went to Ryerson.

She knew all this before. Then went to the school. Got her degree and now is on the news saying she is embarrassed by her degree and won’t hang it.

I don’t get why now. Why not 4 years ago when she already knew of the horrors her father went through?

I’m not saying to not be embarrassed or anything to those who didn’t know but if you knew and we were impacted and yet you still went, then fuck off with your interviews and sad stories. You didn’t care enough 4 years ago. Why care now?

People who are embarrassed by being associated with Ryerson should 1) destroy their degrees 2) remove any reference to it in their CV, LinkedIn, etc. and 3) immediately quit their jobs if their association with Ryerson helped them. Then they can redo their education at a "clean" university.

 

[explorerzip]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1401712687642517507

These are the people who were too stupid to attend Ryerson. Please don't bully retards!

These are the same people that would condemn others for saying "go home from where you came from." Yet that is exactly what they write on the wall.

 

[explorerzip]

Ryerson Public School will have to be renamed also

This will never end. Anything named for a person will eventually have to be renamed. Sooner or later we'll have to get computers to randomly pick a series of letters and symbols for place names. It will be like trying to come up with passwords. Welcome to 8N6KL6PgQl University.

 

[fall]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1401712687642517507

These are the people who were too stupid to attend Ryerson. Please don't bully retards!

When I see this pictures, my only thought is: are these people going to be charged? Will they be fined? Who will pay for the clean-up?

 

[wigglee]

If you didn't know about residential schools til last week, you are a dummy, so why is everyone freaking out now. Were we really surprised by the dead children? I don't care what they call Ryerson and I know oiur history is not perfect but we continue to improve and I still love Canada. The rest of you better pack up and go back to Europe or wherever your people came from. The self loathing shit is irksome.

 

[NotADcotor]

These are the same people that would condemn others for saying "go home from where you came from." Yet that is exactly what they write on the wall.

Actually they do this over and over again.
The double standard/blind to their own racism is strong.

 

[peteeey]

I went to Ryerson and am not at all embarrassed or sorry that I did. If I were to live my younger years over, I would still choose Ryerson because it had (and still has) the best course to gain my career goals. If I knew then who Mr. Ryerson was; and if my refusing to go would have made a positive impact, I might have chosen another school. But that didn't happen and it won't happen today when a kid decides whether or not to attend that school.

 

[NotADcotor]

I went to Ryerson and am not at all embarrassed or sorry that I did. If I were to live my younger years over, I would still choose Ryerson because it had (and still has) the best course to gain my career goals. If I knew then who Mr. Ryerson was; and if my refusing to go would have made a positive impact, I might have chosen another school. But that didn't happen and it won't happen today when a kid decides whether or not to attend that school.

I donno man. I am sure if more people protest this Ryerson fellow will change his attitude and become opposed to educating Indians. We can only hope right.

And before anyone derps. I know. Yes really, I do.

 

[TeeJay]

I would be more embarrassed to associate with the protestors than admit going to Ryerson

Seriously LOOK at the protestors lol

 

[Darts]

I don't want to start a new thread so I post here.

Alex Wood is next.

 

[saxon]

Changing the name won’t do anything. Most people will still call it Ryerson.

 

[Toxboy75]

Changing the name won’t do anything. Most people will still call it Ryerson.

Similar to when people were calling to rename Dundas Street.

 

[hipjdog]

Given his connection to Residential Schools, I think the school at least considering a
name change is the right way to go.

Go back and look at the totality of his history, good and bad, and place it in the context of
the times in which he lived. Was he a mostly good person who had a few antiquated views or
was he an awful racist who should be condemned? Do the research and then come to, and
stick with, a decision.

I'm generally against woke nonsense, but if the guy was genuinely bad I think it's perfectly fine
to change the name, with the understanding that almost every figure from history has some
problematic part to them.

 

[Scorpio1971]

Ryerson is the one who insisted schools be free (kinda ironic naming a University after him)
You can thank him for the taxes you pay

Ryerson was against educating girls as he thought their time was better spent preparing to be a wife/mother

Ryerson supported racial segregation of the school systems

There are enough reasons to bash him, I just don't see the Indian one as being very compelling compared to other issues

His offspring ended up being religious nutbars (missionaries) and communist politicians (actual communists, not just when we insult some of the modern ones)

But education is not free

 

[Darts]

Rather than start a new thread, I post here. Alex Wood is coming down.
BIA calls on city to remove Alexander Wood statue from gay village | Toronto Sun

 

[dickydoem]

The head from the Ryerson statue was reportedly thrown into Lake Ontario but now somehow turned up at the native land claim protest in Caledonia.

Head of toppled Ryerson statue turns up in Caledonia

The last time anyone saw Egerton Ryerson’s head, it was sinking beneath the waves of Toronto Harbour.

www.stratfordbeaconherald.com