Red paint to remain on vandalized Sir John A. Macdonald statue

[conuly]

Link.

All I know about John A. Macdonald is:

1. Macdonald Hall is named after him.

2. As stated in the Wikipedia link in (1), he's the first Prime Minister of Canada.

3. Some people strongly dislike him for reasons that are not explained in the article above. He did genocide, maybe? I'm just guessing here. As an American, Canadian history was not exactly a priority in my education, and even if it had been I doubt we'd've focused on that.

I should probably take this more seriously, but what I'm really asking myself is "How are Bruno and Boots reacting to current events?"

Edit: I will screen and freeze comments talking about whether statue vandalism is ever a good thing, or trying to nitpick when it's okay and when it's not. Sorry, those conversations are boring.

Edit again: I reserve the right to selectively not do the above if you manage to be interesting, especially if you're in character as somebody from Macdonald Hall or Miss Scrimmage's.

Third edit: But I seriously will do it if anybody brings up the word "presentism". I think we all can agree that genocide (?) is bad, even if it happened a long time ago.

Comments

[silveradept]

I suspect both schools would combine their forces to make a much more historically accurate memorial to Sir John wherever it might be in the Hall.