Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rhino Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: [OT] Toronto wokesters want to rename Baby Point Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 12:42:42 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 51 Message-ID: <20240512124242.00003efa@example.com> References: <20240511084801.00006598@example.com> <1mk04j131iedj07snuekugt761lhve9jfn@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 18:42:44 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d6301b4750ccbd4f07f9dbb8bafed9cc"; logging-data="2876659"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19CL5BQSrS5OsMefNP48YHAS4hCd5PwEKw=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:1N5j/HvpoMUp4RZq86V/ocNOC+4= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.2.0 (GTK 3.24.41; x86_64-w64-mingw32) X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 240512-4, 5/12/2024), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Bytes: 3649 On Sat, 11 May 2024 22:31:42 -0700 The Horny Goat wrote: > On Sat, 11 May 2024 08:48:01 -0400, Rhino > wrote: > > >https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/why-this-resident-wants-toronto-s-oldest-richest-neighbourhood-renamed-1.7199463 > > > >I keep seeing signs that the fever dream called "woke" is finally > >coming to an end and these loonies are being brought to heel by the > >people with sense but cases like this make me wonder if I'm just > >imagining these signs of sanity. > > One thing I have avoided discussing with my sister-in-law (an alumnus > of said institution) is how she feels about the renaming of Ryerson > Polytech University in Toronto or for that matter the systematic > renaming of a lot of places in southern Ontario named for him. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egerton_Ryerson > > (His role in Canada was as the founder of publicly funded education in > Ontario and elsewhere - but then these days anybody who had even a > microgram of involvement with the Indian Residential School Program is > considered far worse than Nathan Bedford Forrest - the Confederate > general who went on to found the Klan) I must ask my friend who graduated from there when it was just Ryerson Polytechnic Institute what he thinks of this. Mind you, he is a pretty sensible guy so I'm pretty sure he's going to think the whole thing is deranged. As for Henry Dundas and the things named after him, Yonge-Dundas Square (which was always known as Eaton's Square when I lived there due to the presence of the flagship Eaton's store at that corner) know has a new African name. I expect the signage has been changed to use the new name but I wonder how many people actually refer to it as Sankofa Square and what it will be called in 10 or 20 years from now? Will people still call it Yonge-Dundas Square or will everyone know it as Sankofa Square? Apparently, some subway stops with "Dundas" in the name are being changed (or perhaps have been changed already) but a public outcry seems to have stopped them from renaming the whole street, forcing millions of dollars in expenditures on new signs and the costs of people and businesses changing their stationery and websites to use whatever new name they chose. Toronto had a major tax increase in Comrade Chow's first budget and would have had to raise it even higher if they were going to do a full rename of everything named "Dundas". -- Rhino