Rename All The Things

13 Replies to “Rename All The Things”

1. Not indigenous enough. Throw in a few squirrel, rock, and turd pictograms that are unrepeatable on a keyboard and you’ve got a deal.

   And make sure the full address is part of the mailing address for all paychecks.

2. Clearly the worst thing the Catholic Church did wasn’t Residential Schools, it was the ridiculous alphabets and written language they created for an illiterate people.

3. Just start calling it “Alphabet Hospital.”

4. How did an illiterate people decide to use numeric (“7”) characters in their tribal name? And we are expected to give credence to their “oral history” from a people that never figured out the wheel over western documentation? Give every “native” $10,000 and cut off all further support. End this “land acknowledgement” stupidity. Why are we renaming traditional streets to unpronounceable names (Trutch vs. sxme****maseum)? We do not owe the indigindians anything, we saved them from a lifetime of tribal warfare and slavery.

5. It is the new “Great vowel shift.” Look it up. Fitting in a weird way.

6. NYC was smart-enough to give Numbers to each of their Public Schools … such as PS-104. Perhaps that’s the final solution for re-naming shit in Canada … just use numbers. Wait. Do FN understand math … and numbers?

   1. No, Kenji, they’re not good at math.

7. “…incorporates Indigenous perspectives into healing, and celebrates the deep cultural and linguistic heritage of the Quw’utsun Peoples and their connection to the land.”

   Yeah, somehow I think that when they go there to access health care they’ll opt for white man medical care.

8. Looks like it’s time to pull all the white man funding for this hospital and move the white man medicine to somewhere else.

9. Perfect, now replace all the professional staff with only indigenous people, and require all the indigenous to get their care there. Self solving problem on multiple levels.

10. Isn’t that cultural appropriation? after all the “indigenous way of knowing” doesn’t include hospitals, amongst other things.

11. It will always be Hobbema to me.

12. “Good morning, Quids-in Holy the Newt, can I help you?” I’m ready for the switchboard, hire me!