Huumm ... What erasing history might just lead to

[Anonymous]

At 5:28 pm, Global reporter Mike Armstrong, shoved down some stairs by the "anti-fascists", tweeted: "Great shots in our story tonight by colleague JV (Jean-Vincent Verveille). He took some great stuff until his cam was spiked like a football by masked protestors."

.... Following these unprovoked assaults on its news crew by the, ahem, "anti-fascists", Global News Senior VP Troy Reeb issued the following statement:



"We are disgusted and outraged by today's unprovoked attack on a Global News crew covering demonstrations in Quebec City. While we are relieved that our journalists were not seriously hurt, Canadians should be concerned by this threat against the working of a free press. Our team was there to provide independent coverage and transparency as events unfolded – a goal clearly not shared by the thugs who shielded their identities in the commission of violence."



One would have hoped more media pundits, who think about stuff a lot as opposed to covering the news like working journalists, would have joined Reeb in expressing solidarity with Global's news crew and in condemning the so-called "anti-fascist" demonstrators who attacked them.



http://www.torontosun.com/2017/08/23/the-fascism-of-the-anti-fascists-on-display">Alas, many were too busy writing painfully stupid columns arguing the anti-fascist protesters are defending democracy, while the fascist protesters want to establish a racist, totalitarian state.[/quote]
First they came for racists. Then they came for those that want Trudeau to defend our borders. Next it was fiscal conservatives. And now it's journalists.

[RW]

In reading the story about wanting to remove John A. MacDonald from schools, I found this quote that sums things up nicely:



@Patrice Dutil, president of the Champlain Society and professor at Ryerson University, said the contention of genocide against Macdonald "makes no historical sense."



He acknowledged that the first prime minister wanted to see Indigenous peoples assimilated into the colonial society of Canada, but said that it's unfair to discredit the man of the 19th century — when such views were pervasive and unchallenged — based on the ethics and social views of the present."

[Anonymous]

Apparently keeping the name of John A. MacDonald on schools in Ontario makes them unsafe places..

 :001_rolleyes:

I saw this on Global news.

[Anonymous]

Apparently keeping the name of John A. MacDonald on schools in Ontario makes them unsafe places..

 :001_rolleyes:

I saw this on Global news.

I know all  about it Fash. MacDonald was typical of his time.

[RW]

Apparently keeping the name of John A. MacDonald on schools in Ontario makes them unsafe places..

 :001_rolleyes:

I saw this on Global news.

I know all  about it Fash. MacDonald was typical of his time.

Looking at the polls, most Canadians disagree with the Ontario teachers.

[Thiel]

Our first pm was a product of his time.

[Anonymous]

Our first pm was a product of his time.

We can't expect anyone who lived in 1880 to have the same liberal values of 2017.

[Blurt]

Our first pm was a product of his time.

Said even as you resist being a product of yours.



And, if you say no one is forcing you to be a product of your time, I will counter that neither was anyone forcing MacDonald to be a product of his.



On a side note, I find it hilarious that the media are attacked here for being the mainstream bearers of "fake news"... except when they suffer indignities at the hands of leftists; then the once reviled media become defenders of free speech.



The hypocrisy s just too funny for words.

[Anonymous]

Our first pm was a product of his time.

Said even as you resist being a product of yours.



And, if you say no one is forcing you to be a product of your time, I will counter that neither was anyone forcing MacDonald to be a product of his.



On a side note, I find it hilarious that the media are attacked here for being the mainstream bearers of "fake news"... except when they suffer indignities at the hands of leftists; then the once reviled media become defenders of free speech.



The hypocrisy s just too funny for words.

Thiel resists being typical of his time? You sure about that Blurt?



The takeaway I got from Thiel's post is that  if we are only going to name buildings after historic figures from the 19th century who would be welcomed by the LGBT community of today, than we would have an awful lot of buildings with no name at all.

[Anonymous]

Our first pm was a product of his time.

Said even as you resist being a product of yours.



And, if you say no one is forcing you to be a product of your time, I will counter that neither was anyone forcing MacDonald to be a product of his.



On a side note, I find it hilarious that the media are attacked here for being the mainstream bearers of "fake news"... except when they suffer indignities at the hands of leftists; then the once reviled media become defenders of free speech.



The hypocrisy s just too funny for words.

Thiel resists being typical of his time? You sure about that Blurt?



The takeaway I got from Thiel's post is that  if we are only going to name buildings after historic figures from the 19th century who would be welcomed by the LGBT community of today, than we would have an awful lot of buildings with no name at all.

I don't know why Blurt would assume that about Thiel's post.

[Anonymous]

Our first pm was a product of his time.

Said even as you resist being a product of yours.



And, if you say no one is forcing you to be a product of your time, I will counter that neither was anyone forcing MacDonald to be a product of his.



On a side note, I find it hilarious that the media are attacked here for being the mainstream bearers of "fake news"... except when they suffer indignities at the hands of leftists; then the once reviled media become defenders of free speech.



The hypocrisy s just too funny for words.

That's unfair Blurt..



Nobody here supports violence that I'm aware of anyway..



Even if some people don't trust the media, they are not there looking for violence and should not be victims of it either.

[RW]

Rather than renaming schools, we should be learning more about our history with aboriginals (keeping it in context).

[Anonymous]

I like that idea. And the history of Aboriginal bands with each other.

[Angry White Male]

The real problem is that taking them down will change nothing.

NOW you are getting somewhere!



I knew you could!~

[GORDY GAMBINO]

Rather than renaming schools, we should be learning more about our history with aboriginals (keeping it in context).

1. WE TRIED TO KILL EM.....HOW FUCKED AND HOW FUNNY IS THAT AT THE SAME TIME



2. WE FAILED........HOW FUCKED AND HOW FUNNY IS THAT AT THE SAME TIME



3. NOW HUGE WELFARE BILL FOR THE LAZY DRUNKS............HOW FUCKED AND HOW FUNNY IS THAT AT THE SAME TIME



4. CASINOS GIVEN TO THEM AND PAY NO TAX...HOW FUCKED IS THAT.......HOW FUCKED AND HOW FUNNY IS THAT AT THE SAME TIME



5. NOW THEY ARE ALCOHOLICS TOO BAD.....HOW FUCKED AND HOW FUNNY IS THAT AT THE SAME TIME



6. YOUR FORUM...HOW FUCKED AND HOW FUNNY IS THAT AT THE SAME TIME