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Some people think the way to achieve inclusion is by exclusion.
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Black Creek Pioneer Village in Toronto is dropping ‘Pioneer’ from its name as part of an inclusivity plan and is in talks to work in stories and perspectives with other marginalized communities at the museum.
Good, work their stories in, but now pioneer is a word that makes intellectually weak, overly emotional liberals squirm?
Get over yourself.
This is being done by the sorts of people who use the word settler as a pejorative.
The Toronto Star quotes Tracey-Mae Chambers, a Metis installation artist: “A lot of times it’s older white men who tell the story. Places like Black Creek Pioneer Village, as it was called at the time, only addresses a settler narrative as opposed to Indigenous folks that were displaced along the way.”
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Using a term meant to insult and divide is divisive and bigoted, which is certainly not an inclusive action.
The issue is the devolution of society to language police and the adoption of outrageous policies as if they were sensible.
It is Orwellian, to say the least.
Comedian Ricky Gervais has a great piece in which he describes God creating man. Humans will have a superior brain that allows them to build tools and weapons such that they can take on fierce creatures and survive horrible events. Eventually, however, they will be afraid of words.
For far too long, we have let cultural tyrants get away with redefining words and demanding we all kowtow to their supposed intellectual superiority for fear of being shunned as hateful if we don’t go along with the ever-shifting sands of what is deemed appropriate language.
Adding displays of native culture to Pioneer Village would be inclusive.
Declaring pioneer a word to be shunned is exclusive.
If I thought as these martinets do, I would raise a complaint that anything deemed native automatically leaves out 95% of the population. That would be stupid, of course, so I wouldn’t do it.
Studying, learning about and learning from a culture different from our own is a positive thing. Seeing one’s own culture presented and celebrated is uplifting and affirming. Studying the dark parts of our history is also necessary, but not something we should run from.
Tearing down statues, erasing history and drawing red lines through a dictionary are the actions of totalitarians.
Darryl Gray, director of education and training at The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority said, “We already colloquially refer to it as ‘the Village.’ The ‘village’ is a common unifier around the world. Everybody comes from a village in some form.”
The Village at Black Creek sounds like a subdivision.
Until someone decides that people who come from villages — as I do — are looked down on by urban elites.
Then we will have to come up with a new, supposedly more inclusive name for a collection of humans.
Until someone says using Black is cultural appropriation and it becomes The Folks at the Waterway.
I am not sure how that would become politically incorrect, but it would, because otherwise the professionally offended would be out of business.
If you want to style yourselves as the caring sector, stop dividing and start including and caring.
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Does that make sense?
Black Creek Pioneer Village in Toronto is dropping ‘Pioneer’ from its name as part of an inclusivity plan and is in talks to work in stories and perspectives with other marginalized communities at the museum.
Good, work their stories in, but now pioneer is a word that makes intellectually weak, overly emotional liberals squirm?
Get over yourself.
This is being done by the sorts of people who use the word settler as a pejorative.
The Toronto Star quotes Tracey-Mae Chambers, a Metis installation artist: “A lot of times it’s older white men who tell the story. Places like Black Creek Pioneer Village, as it was called at........
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