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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
I didn’t say anything about residential schools. The subject was renaming streets, etc.
Most people who live in these cities, let alone those on First Nations, have no idea who these places were named after in the first place. These kind of symbolic gestures don’t move the needle an inch when it comes to real-world outcomes. They’re nothing more than a way for the fraction of the population who live and breathe culture wars to keep score.
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It's pretty dismissive to not acknowledge that it is indigenous people asking for these changes, not people "who live and breathe culture wars". To not be able to listen to what they are saying, and acknowledge that ya, these references can continue to perpetuate mental harm, and to suggest they'd rather have a $20 gift card is all pretty dismissive stuff.
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The letter, signed by 18 professors and researchers, calls for “removing the face and name of a symbol of oppression, violence, and pain.”
It also lends support to a movement launched by Indigenous students at Ryerson last month to refer to Ryerson publicly as X University, to avoid repeating a name that the students described as a symbol of cultural genocide.
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cana...o-change-name/