I don't care who stuff is named after. It is all meaningless to me. Call it Calgary Middle School #27 for all I care.
Just be honest and forthcoming about who these people were and what they did. Good and bad.
Does anyone feel like schools and statues and other stuff are monuments of worship? They're for education as much as anything. When I see a school named after someone, I don't view it with reverence. It's just a meaningless name. But if it helps me learn more about the history of that region, that person, of the people who lived there then great. Literally every person you name something after will have detractors, so that whole whataboutism slippery slope argument gets tired real fast for me.
Frankly I find it insulting that we are ok with indigenous canadians living in squalor and poverty but are like "oh but don't worry, we'll change the name of this school so as not to offend. We all good now? Ok thanks. Fist bump." Eff that BS.
Seems like everytime this type of stuff comes up we get ignorance from the organizations involved, fake tears from politicians and then a big check from the government as long as all the victims and victims descendants promise to not mention it again...until the next round of atrocities are uncovered. Here's a thought, instead of doing nothing but empty gestures about old problems, we do actual things for current problems that those old atrocities directly or indirectly are responsible for?
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