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08-26-2017, 04:41 PM
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Let's just get rid of every name off of all public areas.
http://edmontonjournal.com/news/loca...e-frank-oliver
This BS is just getting out of hand.
Things happened 100, 200 years ago that many people are not happy with.
But they happened.
You can't change History, and those that don't learn from it are apt to repeat it.
Let's just rename everything with number. letters and hashtags.
maybe then we can quiet the stupid people.
no that won't work.
Can you imagine the park that gets the number 69?
Idiots.
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08-26-2017, 04:56 PM
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08-26-2017, 05:04 PM
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Let's remove all religious symbols outside of churches, so nobody is offended.
Let's stop teaching history in schools, because it offends some people.
Let's remove all pictures of people from our currency, because it offends people.
Most of all, put a media ban on all politicians pictures, especially Trudeau, because he certainly offends people. 
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08-26-2017, 05:07 PM
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This is just yet another example of how we seem to have all (society) become sensitive and so easily offended.
Not that I would ever celebrate or endorse a tyrant, bigot or dictator, we can't purposely insulate and overt our eyes from history. Parks and monuments are, indeed, a slippery fine line - you are damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Sometimes these things remind society of how far we have come and serve as a reminder of what we don't want to revert back to.
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08-26-2017, 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by elkhunter11
Let's remove all pictures of people from our currency, because it offends people.
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Better yet - let's remove all currency period. It can offend the poor.
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08-26-2017, 05:12 PM
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Welcome to a Liberal snowflake society. Trudeau's utopia!
I say we remove any reference to PET as he obviously offended western Canada.
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08-26-2017, 05:17 PM
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And let's remove the name "Apollo" from the Apollo Program because it might offend the Greeks, because they're incapable of launching spaceships that can go to the moon or anywhere else.
And let's change Volkswagen's name because Dolphie named it, and it might offend the antifa.
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08-26-2017, 05:20 PM
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I am offended by those who are not offended, yet equally offended at those that are offended.
This thread is offensive and should be removed.
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08-26-2017, 05:34 PM
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Lets start with Trudeau airport it offends me, I suffered being forced into taking French class in school
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08-26-2017, 05:34 PM
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I am offended by Lund boats! Rivets and all!
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08-26-2017, 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by EZM
This is just yet another example of how we seem to have all (society) become sensitive and so easily offended.
Not that I would ever celebrate or endorse a tyrant, bigot or dictator, we can't purposely insulate and overt our eyes from history. Parks and monuments are, indeed, a slippery fine line - you are damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Sometimes these things remind society of how far we have come and serve as a reminder of what we don't want to revert back to.
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It's not that people are easily offended. It's that people are trying to appear to be the most progressive and tolerant person in their social circles. If they can be the first to spot some new thing that MIGHT offend someone, even a tiny one, they'll seize it and use that to show how enlightened and virtuous they are.
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08-26-2017, 05:38 PM
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Originally Posted by whiteout
It's not that people are easily offended. It's that people are trying to appear to be the most progressive and tolerant person in their social circles. If they can be the first to spot some new thing that MIGHT offend someone, even a tiny one, they'll seize it and use that to show how enlightened and virtuous they are.
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You nailed it in my mind.
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08-26-2017, 05:44 PM
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I am offended by Lund boats! Rivets and all!
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lund hotel has the best burgers . lets keep this one !
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08-26-2017, 06:01 PM
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I'm offended by the sight of mosks near my neighborhood.
I'm a minority of one, and since minorities have all the rights and are more equal than others, then I demand that all mosks in this country be torn down and replaced with strip malls or Legions.
Yeah, right. Like THAT would ever happen.
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08-26-2017, 06:38 PM
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and this thread is proof of that 
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08-26-2017, 06:40 PM
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I'm offended that society is offended by the decisions of our forefathers and ancestors. Their decisions were based on the time and place, this is why it's called our history! To remember to educate and to honour the great people that built this place we call home.
It's easy to look back and point fingers, but dammit the people making the calls, naming the communities, commissioning plaques, erecting the statues were our fathers, grandfathers, great grandfathers, great great grandfathers, our mothers, grand mother's, great grandmothers, great great grand mother's. You get the point these decisions were important to them at the time this history was being wrote. If we don't honour these decisions and respect the life and times of our ancestors then how can we expect our children to respect the decisions we as a society make today? 20 years ago I researched our family origins to Canada on my dads side.
It was shown that my first ancestor to Canada came as a French soldier in 1634. He took a bride in Quebec and later a farm. My routes extend from this settling to New York and across this continent. With relatives fighting in the Riel Rebellion. I wouldn't change a thing I've learned good or bad.
Leave the statues, the plaques, the parks etc alone. Learn from the history, remember history teach it embrace it and make today's decisions something that our future will be proud of. Not something they want to wipe out and forget!
We have too many everyone-gets-a-trophy these days calling the shots. It's ridiculous how a few get the grease while the rest of us get the shaft!
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08-26-2017, 07:04 PM
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Let's remove all religious symbols outside of churches, so nobody is offended.
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Actually a 167 year old Catholic school in California has removed statues of Jesus and Mary so as not to offend and to be more inclusive.
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08-26-2017, 09:19 PM
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The left feigns oppression so they can get all the moral capital of a wronged party without the actual trouble of suffering harm.
And it's funny how every generation of lefty loons are convinced they've alighted upon the one true evil.
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08-26-2017, 09:34 PM
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People are losing their minds everywhere. Even here, with 15-22 kids in grade 12 the creationists are screaming that their little darlings will not be taught the theory of evolution. Really?
This town (entire planet) needs an enema (Batman)
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08-26-2017, 09:46 PM
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The left feigns oppression so they can get all the moral capital of a wronged party without the actual trouble of suffering harm.
And it's funny how every generation of lefty loons are convinced they've alighted upon the one true evil.
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Lefty loons or right wing nutz, I think politics has become the one true evil.
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08-26-2017, 09:50 PM
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I am offended by Lund boats! Rivets and all!
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I'm offended that Crestliners don't!
You should let me install a few rivets in your boat for you. It would make it way better like mine.
We could shoot it up with a .22 so we don't have to drill out the holes !!!!
Hillbilly rivetting !!!!
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08-27-2017, 08:03 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by whiteout
It's not that people are easily offended. It's that people are trying to appear to be the most progressive and tolerant person in their social circles. If they can be the first to spot some new thing that MIGHT offend someone, even a tiny one, they'll seize it and use that to show how enlightened and virtuous they are.
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It is called virtue signalling. The youngsters use it to get likes and to impress the ladies.
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08-27-2017, 08:15 AM
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A sense of entitlement run amuck in society which leads to a weaker society in general.
Oh well gonna go shoot my bow
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08-27-2017, 08:38 AM
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Originally Posted by ETOWNCANUCK
http://edmontonjournal.com/news/loca...e-frank-oliver
This BS is just getting out of hand.
Things happened 100, 200 years ago that many people are not happy with.
But they happened.
You can't change History, and those that don't learn from it are apt to repeat it.
Let's just rename everything with number. letters and hashtags.
maybe then we can quiet the stupid people.
no that won't work.
Can you imagine the park that gets the number 69?
Idiots.
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I think park 69 is better then " park dinner for two with a horrible view". It would be a shame to offend the arsehole lovers.
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08-27-2017, 09:08 AM
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08-27-2017, 09:37 AM
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if the area could be renamed at absolutely no cost at all, sure, whatever, change the name from Oliver to whatever suitable replacement they come up with. My issue is that if they choose to move forward with this, how many millions of dollars is this going to wind up costing to completely vanish the name Oliver from that area? It's not like all they have to do is change a couple signs; there would be an insane amount of changes going on, and with CoE's overall incompetence with doing anything, oh boy the cost to tax payers would be astronimcal.
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08-27-2017, 10:41 AM
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Name Change to Marisa Peters
IMO the name of Frank Oliver in all public places should be changed to Marisa Peters, as she is the one with the intestinal fortitude to try to correct this affront to her personal feeling. And I think she would really appreciate this as she has accomplished so much more than Frank Oliver in her life time.
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08-27-2017, 10:43 AM
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I have always disliked the way places with names that you grew up with get changed. I have seen it happen many times. It's not always about something historically wrong with the original name either. A lot of times some new shiny pony of a politician or other authoratarian will replace an established namesake, as thier way of making thier mark in history. Pathetic. You'd think they could find something new that is being built if they wanted to put a name on something.
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