We are the type of generation, which is no longer interested in history. Our history is what determines who we are, and where we progressed. There were people that sacrificed, that worked really hard to get us here. Forgetting the leaders and creators of this society and believing that we landed on Earth with the same advancements that we have, will result in the collapse of all that we know, having ruins of today and no past to support our future. “You stand taller when you stand on the shoulders of giants”

1. REWRITING HISTORY TO
JUSTIFY CURRENT ACTIONS
Egerton Ryerson (1803-1882) was an innovator
in the field of education in 19th century
Ontario who almost single-handedly originated
its school system. He was also a friend to
Indigenous people, and recommended a
curriculum for Indigenous education that would
have allowed Indigenous inhabitants to prosper
in a rapidly changing environment. As a result
of his involvement in Indigenous education, in
2017 the students’ union of the post-secondary
institution named after him, Ryerson
University, called for the changing of its
name and the removal of Egerton Ryerson's on-
campus statue. A recent report with
recommendations has been accepted by the
university, resulting in its decision to
change its name. ¶ The following letter was
sent February 10 the university president. We
are publishing a response to it, plus some
commentary on the decision.
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2. Letter to Dr. Mohamed Lachemi, president and vice-chancellor of
Ryerson University from Gilbert Reid, journalist and author
Dear Professor Lachemi,
I would advise against changing the name of Ryerson University.
It seems, so far as I can ascertain, that the man Egerton
Ryerson was not guilty of the various nefarious crimes
attributed to him. see, from a recent letter that you
signed, that Ryerson was never on trial. Really? That is
certainly news to me and to everyone I know.
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3. 2. Canceling Ryerson — and let's not prettify it, that is what it is — is equivalent to canceling the efforts of many generations of school
teachers, intellectuals, and teachers of all kinds who worked hard have made this province the relatively well-educated and relatively
welcoming place it is.
It also cancels all the generations that did all sorts of work of all kinds.
This place — Ontario — did not come originally equipped with a literate population, banks, supermarkets, streets, sewers, literacy, numeracy,
condos, and electric lighting, streetcars and the rule of law, though we may now be told — or given the impression — that it did.
Irony, I know, is forbidden. I really must be careful.
You are canceling, among other people, my ancestors who have lived and worked here for quite a few generations — back into the 18th
century I believe on one branch; we were in the fur trade, then fishing, then mining, and farming — real farming where you get your hands
reddened and where you work dawn to dusk. And real mining, too, where, in those days, you certainly risked your life — as my father did.
Our history is suddenly irrelevant — as is that of everybody else who worked up until yesterday to make this place what it is.
The rich industrial and post-industrial society — yes, it has problems — that is Ontario was just conjured up by magic. Whoopee! Here it is!
And who are these horrible people — these "settlers" — who live here, camping like parasites on this ground?
his is deeply "disrespectful."
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4. 3. I think we are seeing presently, in the horrendous so-called truckers convoys,
part of the blowback from political correctness and Wokeism and conformity run
amok.
Renaming streets and universities and tearing down statues may seem costless
and cute — mostly gesture politics of the most vacuous, useless, showy, vain,
and counter-productive kind — but it isn't; it costs money and it creates, in many
sectors of opinion, not just disgruntled grumpy old white folks, lots of simmering,
then boiling, then exploding resentment.
And it costs money that could be better spent, say, on scholarships and
fellowships for Black or Indigenous students.
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5. 4. By the way, in my experience some of the most virulently anti-Woke
and anti-political correctness people are young so-called BIPOC
(horrendously dehumanizing, reifying, alienating acronym adored by
militant tacticians & academics and bureaucrats and mocked by
everybody else) and worse "racialized" people — I won't go into how
offensive on almost all l levels this term "racialized" is, and how it
embodies Agitprop in its most hypocritical, devious, and insidious
form. It reminds me of Orwell and NewSpeak and of Stalinism at its
most lethal. Use words that make straight and honest thinking about
almost anything impossible — then you can get away with anything.
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