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I don't think boarding schools in the Victorian era had the same stigma you are associating with them. My understand was that during the early 1800s, boarding schools were relatively common. He suggested the concept of boarding schools in the 1840s -- not what happened 80 years later. (I believe he was a Methodist, and avid advocate for freedom of religion, so I am not sure he advised for Catholic priests to run the schools.) IMHO, historical figures need to be looked at in the context of the era and their peers. Someone who pushed society FORWARD, like Ryerson did, should be celebrated for their advancements, rather than castigated for not having 2022 values. History is important -- understanding the lessons we've learned is important. Egerton Ryerson and John A MacDonald are not like confederate generals. I could argue that people like Jean Chretien (Minister of Indian Affairs) and Pierre Elliott Trudeau (Prime Minister) have more responsibility, because they actually were responsible for overseeing Residential Schools. And you won't hear me arguing to rename Montreal's airport.

Words are violence. Didn't you know? Edit: Even mild criticism by some is viewed as an attack. [Harrassment is different.]

Again, we are talking about the 1840s. I would want to go back and look at my European history, but my recollection was that in that era the majority of people were working class, worked 12 hours a day and lived in slums. He believed that by educating people, getting them invested in society and ultimately a better society for all. What did he achieve? He brought in compulsory education, free education and a common curriculum. Those didn't exist in Upper Canada in the 1840s. He believed those should be universal for everyone -- and yes, he did suggest those for indigenous people as well as non-indigenous people. I have seen no evidence, however, that he was ever involved in the planning to remove a single indigenous child from their family - let alone be actually involved. Let alone be actually involved in any of the abuse that happened in those schools.

In order to be the "father" of something -- you need to be involved in it. I have not found any claims that he was in any way involved in the planning of residential schools. Ryerson made some recommendations in 1847 about boarding schools for indigenous children. The first residential school was opened in 1894. This would be like someone being called the "father" of something that launched today based on some musings they did in 1975.

Ryerson University renames itself Toronto Metropolitan University. It was previously named after Egerton Ryerson, who was instrumental to the design of the Canadian Public School system. Critics of the old name, suggested that he was the "father" of the residential school system, despite the first residential school opening 16-years after his death (and ~50 years after he provided advice to Indian Affairs on how they could start to educate the indigenous population). Calling it Metropolitan is somewhat strange, as it's root word is the Greek word "Metropolis" - which has one of its definitions as "the mother city or parent state of a colony, especially of an ancient Greek colony." In a similar note, in my region, Sir John A. MacDonald Senior Public school was renamed to "demonstrate PDSB’s commitment to dismantling oppressive practices and structures in service of our students, staff and community."

Twitter doesn't have engineers.

Don't break the law in Canada:

It was the main thesis of my PHd.

The cultural colonialism of the non-indigenous monarchists necessitates the oppression of the undervalued underclass. This apartheid continuum necessitates the destruction of historically racist systems of injustice. The only solution is to acknowledge the transmutation of indo-classical cultures into the context of Euro-centric climate abolitionists.

Why would you ever share a spoon? Is there a spoon shortage?

I suspect whoever @unogueen is an alt for didn't get the reaction they wanted from their last thread, so decided to make this one even more overt.

What does dimuintize mean?

The only place I use straws is at fast food places for pop. My wife/kids don't drink pop. So, no one.

The anticipated wave has so far been very minor. Not sure about in the US, but here in Ontario there is still a very active "Zero-Covid" community. They have gone from being active against the January school re-openings, to now lobbying for the return of vaccine mandates at restaurants and mask mandates. Some (the fringe) are even blaming the rise of variants on Ontario's lack of restrictions. Of course, they are all very critical of Kieran Moore and Doug Ford.

Welcome to the Culture Wars. Reaction videos and consolidation accounts (i.e. Libs of TikTok) find problematic content, then give them false impression that an entire community/group of people is similar to the fringe. Unfortunately, too many people that believe that the fringe beliefs are significantly more widespread than they are.

85% of people suck.

I dunno. Our fight on women’s soccer…

Are you two Canadians?

He never offered them $6 billion. He was calling them out on their original bullshit claiming that it would.

That's not where I was going.

Yeah. They said how they would spend the money. But it wouldn't "solve" world hunger -- not even close. Which was Elon's point to begin with.

Do you have a link to that breakdown? $6 billion seems awful light.

I don't care what they call their convoy, this is what Rolling Thunder will always mean to me: Amazing Game

Before this gets implemented, someone should create a thread of all of the incredible takes that people are posting on Twitter about Elon Musk buying Twitter.