Another example of how a small minority of people can have more influence than the vast majority. Canad's first Prime Minister John McDonald is getting the boot from being on dollar bills. He's having his statue removed from various places. His name taken off buildings. 70 percent of Canadians opposed the erasure of Macdonald’s image, compared with only 11 percent who supported it. A poll in summer 2020 found that 75 percent of Canadians opposed the “spontaneous” tear down of Macdonald statues.
But that don't matter. Macdonald’s policies have fallen out of favor with the Canadian government and the dominant voices in Canadian media and academia.
Sound familiar?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... ld/619236/
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No More MacDonald in Canada
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Yes it's time for MacDonald and his legacy of racism and genocide to go. Good riddance.
His image was never on the dollar bill. We don't even have a dollar bill. He was on the $10 bill and was replaced about a year ago by civil rights crusader.Viola Desmond.
His image was never on the dollar bill. We don't even have a dollar bill. He was on the $10 bill and was replaced about a year ago by civil rights crusader.Viola Desmond.
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Canada adores Trudeau.
Voting for Trump is dumber than playing Russian Roulette with fully loaded chambers.
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$1 $10 Both are dollar bills. You know what I meant. I read the article. I knew it was a $10. Didn't think anyone would get that picky.Turkeytop wrote: ↑Mon Jun 21, 2021 3:55 pmYes it's time for MacDonald and his legacy of racism and genocide to go. Good riddance.
His image was never on the dollar bill. We don't even have a dollar bill. He was on the $10 bill and was replaced about a year ago by civil rights crusader.Viola Desmond.
Could you expound on just how racist MacDonald was? Reading the article, it don't get into racism and genocide. And of course we can both agree every news source has an angle to the story.
And lastly, an important question.
If the article is correct, 75 percent of Canadians do not agree with you. Should your opinion override theirs?
Should 1 out of 4 have more of a say than 3 out of 4, even if MacDonald is guilty of all charges? Or should there be a bit of forgive and forgot about things that happened 150 years ago?
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A nation needs to be guided by what is morally right, not by what is popular. The survey cited in Frum's article is from 2018. Believe me. Public opinion has changed in 2021 as we continue to find the graves of the children.If the article is correct, 75 percent of Canadians do not agree with you. Should your opinion override theirs
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LOL
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They are digging up the previously unknown graves of dead children for god sakes…Mike Oxlong wrote: ↑Mon Jun 21, 2021 6:08 pm$1 $10 Both are dollar bills. You know what I meant. I read the article. I knew it was a $10. Didn't think anyone would get that picky.Turkeytop wrote: ↑Mon Jun 21, 2021 3:55 pmYes it's time for MacDonald and his legacy of racism and genocide to go. Good riddance.
His image was never on the dollar bill. We don't even have a dollar bill. He was on the $10 bill and was replaced about a year ago by civil rights crusader.Viola Desmond.
Could you expound on just how racist MacDonald was? Reading the article, it don't get into racism and genocide. And of course we can both agree every news source has an angle to the story.
And lastly, an important question.
If the article is correct, 75 percent of Canadians do not agree with you. Should your opinion override theirs?
Should 1 out of 4 have more of a say than 3 out of 4, even if MacDonald is guilty of all charges? Or should there be a bit of forgive and forgot about things that happened 150 years ago?
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Got me good, Matt. You've waited a long time for that.
Sadly, there may be some truth in your words. We are having an election later this year and it's widely expected the Liberals will prevail.
The Conservatives are too busy fighting among each other to mount any serious effort against the Liberals.
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Who decides what is morally right?
New York and Chicago were all in with respect to their sanctuary status — until they were hit with the challenge of actually providing sanctuary. In other words, typical liberal hypocrisy.
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I guess MacDonald decided it was morally right to forcibly separate native children from their families and ship them off to residential schools, hundreds of miles from their homes.
That's worse than Trump did with the immigrant children. These kids were our own citizens.
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That didn't answer the question.
Make it simple. Make me king of Canada, I'll decide.
Make it simple. Make me king of Canada, I'll decide.
New York and Chicago were all in with respect to their sanctuary status — until they were hit with the challenge of actually providing sanctuary. In other words, typical liberal hypocrisy.
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Some things are just so obviously immoral and egregious no one has to decide.
Who got to decide on the morality of the 9-11 terrorists?
Who got to decide on the morality of the 9-11 terrorists?
I started out with nothing and I still have most of it.
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We have a group of politicians in elected office in our country at this moment that think the 9/11 terrorist attacks were morally justified.
You know some people, did some things.
New York and Chicago were all in with respect to their sanctuary status — until they were hit with the challenge of actually providing sanctuary. In other words, typical liberal hypocrisy.
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Hey... bartender.
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