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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I don't think this is any better at all. At least not in how you have framed it. I think it is equally disingenuous to project onto an historical figure like MacDonald our own beliefs as if he would have adopted them in our place. It's better to judge actions rather than imbuing intent. A much better response would be to say: "This is what he did, he forged Confederation, but he also did this, residential schools for natives," and to restrain from attempting to rehabilitate his intentions.
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No, no, no! Its been made abundantly clear that we're to determine his intentions and he should be judged by that interpretation.
Its about Residential Schools right? If all he wanted to do was exterminate Natives there were easier ways to go about it.
I could go on and on. Its revisionist history. And I dont even like John A. MacDonald all that particularly.
Mistakes were made. Lets learn and move along. But he was the father of Canadian Confederation (such a joke as it is) so lets just acknowledge it and move along.