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Old 08-13-2017, 05:08 PM   #330
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Originally Posted by Table 5 View Post
There's never a definitive answer. Louis Riel, William Wallace, Pancho Villa, Spartacus, Washington...the definition of hero or traitor can shift quiet a bit depending on context and time. Human history is mostly one giant ball of grey.
Winston Churchill hated Bengalis and considered them subhuman. John A. MacDonald pushed residential schools.

Heck, I am willing to bet that most of our grandfathers or great grandfathers used to be wife and child beaters.

The past needs to be remembered, but not lived in.
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