Social City of Toronto staff supports push to rename Dundas Street due to namesake’s connection to slavery

[GoldenWolf87]

Toronto's Woke Mayor wants to change the name of a ionic and popular street in Toronto. The mayor wants to rename Dundas because according to the mayor and council. It holds ties to slavery.

How long till they change rename the city of Toronto? this woke mayor even had the nerve to claim that Dundas had virtually no connection to Toronto! can you imagine a mayor making such a ridicules statement?
City of Toronto staff supports push to rename Dundas Street due to namesake’s connection to slavery

Toronto’s City Manager’s office has released a report recommending the renaming of Dundas Street and other civic assets bearing the Dundas name amid controversy surrounding the history of who they are named after.

The recommendation was done following a petition that was signed by over 14,000 people calling for the name of the street to be changed as anti-racism protests sparked in Toronto and around the world

 

[GoldenWolf87]

The street itself Dundas street was made in around 1800/1920s.
For a woke mayor to suggest that had virtually no connection to Toronto is completely idiotic and just bending the knee to BLM.

 

[Greta Thunberg]

They should just rename it Castro's Way. That would be sweet, eh?



Wait, did I just rap?

 

[gatchaman]

Beats doing real work, I guess

 

[Hadron90]

All streets should be named George Floyd St.

 

[Natural Order]

Dundas & Spadina = top notch locale! Some of the best food and culture you can find in Toronto.

 

[Badger67]

If it gets that crazy religious lady to stfu every weekend im okay with it.

In all seriousness this shit is stupid. Do we cancel the name jane and finch or parkdale because of all the gangland slayings?

 

[Hadron90]

@Papi Chulo

Hit em with the Orwell quote.

 

[Poon Goon]

The 14,000 people that signed the petition are problary just being ridicules

 

[GoldenWolf87]

They should just rename it Castro's Way. That would be sweet, eh?



Wait, did I just rap?

If we are going to be going with the woke's side logic here by their logic we should change everything then. Change the name of the city and why? well wasn't Toronto founded by slavers and evil colonizers? so why not change the name altogether? i mean this is their logic.

But i see your point to.

 

[ultramanhyata]

Toronto's Woke Mayor wants to change the name of a ionic and popular street in Toronto. The mayor wants to rename Dundas because according to the mayor and council. It holds ties to slavery.

Are you denying that the Toronto street was named after Henry Dundas? They are even condemning this genocidal Scot's history in Scotland.

 

[SammyPops]

I really hope its not renamed to something like "BIPOC way" or "Anit-black racism Road".

Putting my vote in for Kyel Lowrie Lane!

 

[SammyPops]

All streets should be named George Floyd St.

But he was a Afr-American and not an Afro-Canadian. Does that matter?

 

[Hadron90]

But he was a Afr-American and not an Afro-Canadian. Does that matter?

Only to racists.

 

[EndlessCritic]

Meanwhile, Canada has numerous streets/buildings named after this woman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Murphy

"Murphy was among those who thought that societal problems like alcoholism, drug abuse and crime resulted from mental deficiencies. In a 1932 article titled "Overpopulation and Birth Control", she states: "over-population [is a] basic problem of all ... none of our troubles can even be allayed until this is remedied". As the politics behind the Second World War continued to develop, Murphy, who was a pacifist, theorized that the only reason for war was that nations needed to fight for land to accommodate their growing populations. Her argument was that: if there was population control, people would not need as much land. Without the constant need for more land, war would cease to exist.[25]

Her solution to these social issues was eugenics. Murphy supported selective breeding and the compulsory sterilization of those individuals who were considered mentally deficient. She believed that the mentally and socially inferior reproduced more than the "human thoroughbreds" and appealed to the Alberta Legislative Assembly for forced sterilization. In a petition, she wrote that mentally defective children were "a menace to society and an enormous cost to the state ... science is proving that mental defectiveness is a transmittable hereditary condition". She wrote to the UFA government's Minister of Agriculture and Health, George Hoadley that two female "feeble-minded" mental patients had already bred several offspring. She called it "a neglect amounting to a crime to permit these two women to go on bearing children".

The UFA government brought in a eugenics law in 1928, requiring parents' or guardians' approval of the operation. Later, after Murphy's death, William Aberhart's Social Credit government amended the law to allow forced sterilization.[26]

Due in part to Murphy's heavy advocacy of compulsory sterilization, thousands of Albertan men and women were sterilized without their knowledge or consent under the Sexual Sterilization Act before its repeal in 1972."


The vast majority of her victims were aboriginal.

 

[Papi Chulo]

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

― George Orwell, 1984

 

[GoldenWolf87]

Are you denying that the Toronto street was named after Henry Dundas? They are even condemning this genocidal Scot's history in Scotland.

And you missed my point in the thread.
I also said why not change the name of the city to please the woke?

well wasn't Toronto founded by slavers and evil colonizers? so why not change the name altogether? i mean this is their logic.

 

[GoldenWolf87]

Meanwhile, Canada has numerous streets/buildings named after this woman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Murphy

"Murphy was among those who thought that societal problems like alcoholism, drug abuse and crime resulted from mental deficiencies. In a 1932 article titled "Overpopulation and Birth Control", she states: "over-population [is a] basic problem of all ... none of our troubles can even be allayed until this is remedied". As the politics behind the Second World War continued to develop, Murphy, who was a pacifist, theorized that the only reason for war was that nations needed to fight for land to accommodate their growing populations. Her argument was that: if there was population control, people would not need as much land. Without the constant need for more land, war would cease to exist.[25]

Her solution to these social issues was eugenics. Murphy supported selective breeding and the compulsory sterilization of those individuals who were considered mentally deficient. She believed that the mentally and socially inferior reproduced more than the "human thoroughbreds" and appealed to the Alberta Legislative Assembly for forced sterilization. In a petition, she wrote that mentally defective children were "a menace to society and an enormous cost to the state ... science is proving that mental defectiveness is a transmittable hereditary condition". She wrote to the UFA government's Minister of Agriculture and Health, George Hoadley that two female "feeble-minded" mental patients had already bred several offspring. She called it "a neglect amounting to a crime to permit these two women to go on bearing children".

The UFA government brought in a eugenics law in 1928, requiring parents' or guardians' approval of the operation. Later, after Murphy's death, William Aberhart's Social Credit government amended the law to allow forced sterilization.[26]

Due in part to Murphy's heavy advocacy of compulsory sterilization, thousands of Albertan men and women were sterilized without their knowledge or consent under the Sexual Sterilization Act before its repeal in 1972."


The vast majority of her victims were aboriginal.

Good points about her as well. They problary wont touch her for now because reasons.

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

Should be a blast to have the multiple thousands address changes on personal documents.

 

[grimballer]

All streets should be named George Floyd St.

"where you wanna meet up?"

"how about at the corner of george floyds avenue and george floyds street?"

"how about george floyds boulevard near george floyds square instead?"

"thats sounds great! after that we can go to george floyd plaza"