Your reporter, Cosmin Dzsurdzsa (google him) doesn't have anything to say himself, apparently, he just repeats what he reads when he logs into Blacklock's Reporter, so you don't have to create an account, I guess.
I wonder how much real information goes missing if they just remove the bigotry and racism from the web pages. It will still be there in the actual documents.
"removal of “offensive” content" probably covers those places where Macdonald is referring to First Nations people as "savages", and the like.
The effect of this action is to actually remove all record of Macdonald on anything related to FN peoples, from the website. If the Canadian Government historically did anything immoral, it should not now hide such. At best it should put a disclaimer on the webpage “This content is historical records of previous governments and does not necessarily reflect beliefs of the current government”. To selectively hide the record is a bad move.
That depends on who is editing the website. If every mention of them as “Indian” or “Savage” is deemed offensive, and only “indiginous” or “first nation” is appropriate, then nothing would remain.
But if for a made up example Macdonald once said “We ought to exterminate all of them”, that still should not be removed from the site. It should be left with a disclaimer that “we disagree”.
If every mention of them as “Indian” or “Savage” is deemed offensive, and only “indiginous” or “first nation” is appropriate, then nothing would remain.
Let's see if a $250K/year professional archivist takes a 2¢ approach like that.
Searching the Libraries and Archives web site for "John. A. Macdonald" produces 92,529 hits.
https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Home/Search?q_exact=John%20A.%20Macdonald&
Your reporter, Cosmin Dzsurdzsa (google him) doesn't have anything to say himself, apparently, he just repeats what he reads when he logs into Blacklock's Reporter, so you don't have to create an account, I guess.
I wonder how much real information goes missing if they just remove the bigotry and racism from the web pages. It will still be there in the actual documents.
"removal of “offensive” content" probably covers those places where Macdonald is referring to First Nations people as "savages", and the like.
The effect of this action is to actually remove all record of Macdonald on anything related to FN peoples, from the website. If the Canadian Government historically did anything immoral, it should not now hide such. At best it should put a disclaimer on the webpage “This content is historical records of previous governments and does not necessarily reflect beliefs of the current government”. To selectively hide the record is a bad move.
That would only be true if absolutely everything he said about FN people was racist bigotry.
That depends on who is editing the website. If every mention of them as “Indian” or “Savage” is deemed offensive, and only “indiginous” or “first nation” is appropriate, then nothing would remain.
But if for a made up example Macdonald once said “We ought to exterminate all of them”, that still should not be removed from the site. It should be left with a disclaimer that “we disagree”.
Let's see if a $250K/year professional archivist takes a 2¢ approach like that.