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I stand corrected.

Today it’s mostly been this thread.

Most insightful thing I’ve heard today:

Chaya Raichik won't be 'silenced' despite 'Libs of TikTok' outing NYPOST.COM Chaya Raichik was revealed to be the person behind the "Libs of TikTok" Twitter account that has attracted more than 845,000 followers. Previously, the Post (and others) reported that her home and work addresses were linked in the original WaPo article.

Great article. Thank-you for sharing.

Draft is in Vegas, with no picks for the Raiders until the 3rd round. I haven't even followed draft coverage this year.

No. The WaPo piece didn't need to release her name or link to her business license to make its point. It was superfluous to the story. If there was a link to something else the person had done previously, that releasing the name achieved (i.e. by showing a link to a hate group, etc.) then, by all means. Do it.

That justifies it being printed in the Washington Post and making it widely available?

They made no claims on effectiveness vs. serious disease or death in their press release.

Doxing - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG That's what happened here.

Managing to get Elon Musk and Ben Shapiro in the same tweet is god-tier tweet posting.

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.