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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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You can absolutely judge whether people deserve a statue or naming honour using current norms. Naming stuff after people is just dumb though. I think we should just end that practice starting now.