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Originally Posted by GirlySports
We have to be careful about renaming stuff and history, Although I have no problem with removing Langevin School. It probably should have been removed when the bridge was renamed.
But careful because this is a time machine that only goes one way. You can go back and judge people back then using today's standards, but that person back then never gets the opportunity to change his/her behavior using today's standards.
Now residential schools and removing kids from homes and indoctrinating them was wrong using any standard past or present so that seems clear to me anyways. There should probably be a review of everything anyways, not just have these things come up due to the discovery of a mass grave.
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We don't have to be
that careful. These guys we've named stuff after are dead. Life is for the living. I'm not worried about hurting one dead guy's feelings that don't exist if it means added insult/suffering to 10s, hundreds or thousands of living people. Like, c'mon.