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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Dec 26, 2017 1:31:24 GMT
For sure the first thing you think off when seeing this name would be Nazis yet that doesn't negate the fact that this has nothing to do with them. It was put up near a hundred years ago. To say the name is "linked to bigotry, tolerance and anti-semitism," and "It is a name that will be forever linked to hatred and various other atrocities" is just not true. I'd say keep it but political correctness will eventually have it removed. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/swastika-trail-name-change-council-vote-in-puslinch-1.4457709 |
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Post by eastenn on Dec 26, 2017 1:51:05 GMT
Canadians are as bad as Scandinavians. They must wear knee pads 24/7.
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Post by ayatollah on Dec 26, 2017 2:06:38 GMT
I'm surprised it wasn't renamed in 1939 when Canada went to war with a nation that used said symbol as it's own.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Dec 26, 2017 2:24:49 GMT
I'm surprised it wasn't renamed in 1939 when Canada went to war with a nation that used said symbol as it's own. That is another point. It has been used long after WW2 and hasn't had much of a problem so why change it now? During WW2 or just after would have been the time where residents would have demanded change as residents might have actually died fighting Nazis. Now it is just a case of political correctness. |
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Post by ayatollah on Dec 26, 2017 2:28:02 GMT
I'm surprised it wasn't renamed in 1939 when Canada went to war with a nation that used said symbol as it's own. That is another point. It has been used long after WW2 and hasn't had much of a problem so why change it now? During WW2 or just after would have been the time where residents would have demanded change as residents might have actually died fighting Nazis. Now it is just a case of political correctness. I don't know, but it's weird that it took so long. |
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Dec 26, 2017 2:36:41 GMT
That is another point. It has been used long after WW2 and hasn't had much of a problem so why change it now? During WW2 or just after would have been the time where residents would have demanded change as residents might have actually died fighting Nazis. Now it is just a case of political correctness. I don't know, but it's weird that it took so long. People today are more likely to look around to find things to complain and be offended about than people were just a few generations ago. |
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Post by ayatollah on Dec 26, 2017 3:02:15 GMT
I don't know, but it's weird that it took so long. People today are more likely to look around to find things to complain and be offended about than people were just a few generations ago. That's probably what it is. Are you from Kitchener area? |
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Dec 26, 2017 3:17:33 GMT
People today are more likely to look around to find things to complain and be offended about than people were just a few generations ago. That's probably what it is. Are you from Kitchener area? |
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Dec 26, 2017 3:19:52 GMT
People today are more likely to look around to find things to complain and be offended about than people were just a few generations ago. That's probably what it is. Are you from Kitchener area? No. I'm from Liverpool. That's why I support Everton. I live in Ontario now though. |
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Dec 26, 2017 9:30:35 GMT
That name would have a damaging effect on house prices on that street (if there are houses there). If I was a resident, I'd want it changed, just like I wouldn't buy a house on "Rape Your Bitch-ass 300 Pound Fat Ugly Piece of Shit Fucking Mother Street". It's not really what I'm looking for.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Dec 26, 2017 20:40:14 GMT
That name would have a damaging effect on house prices on that street (if there are houses there). If I was a resident, I'd want it changed, just like I wouldn't buy a house on "Rape Your Bitch-ass 300 Pound Fat Ugly Piece of Shit Fucking Mother Street". It's not really what I'm looking for. As Ayatollah was saying, why now? WW2 ended 70 years ago. To change will be hassle and money spent on something that hasn't really been a problem. The German town of 'Dachau' still has that name despite having had an actual death camp there and as soon as anyone hears 'Dachau' they think Nazi. 'Swastika Trail' has zero to do with Nazism. It's a road in a small town in Southern Ontario. |
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