Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoStudents divided after returning to schools with Confederate names restoredwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1301arrow-down15
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minus-squareotp@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32arrow-down1·1 month ago One helped found this country. Canadians don’t have a cult of personality around our first Prime Minister the way Americans do around George Washington. Canada was apparently founded on uniting white Europeans to eradicate the “savage” indigenous populations here. So… founding the country can be overlooked to an extent if the person was otherwise an asshole.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down2·1 month agoThere’s a difference between founding a country by winning a war against a monarchy and founding a country when a CEO sucks a monarch off.
Canadians don’t have a cult of personality around our first Prime Minister the way Americans do around George Washington.
Canada was apparently founded on uniting white Europeans to eradicate the “savage” indigenous populations here.
So… founding the country can be overlooked to an extent if the person was otherwise an asshole.
There’s a difference between founding a country by winning a war against a monarchy and founding a country when a CEO sucks a monarch off.