Canadian city considers renaming street named after Scots politician Henry Dundas

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Canadian city considers renaming street named after Scots politician Henry Dundas

Toronto City Council is to launch a public consultation over renaming a street named after 18th-century Scottish politician Henry Dundas

Oct 11, 2020

The name of the major thoroughfare in the Canadian city, which shares a moniker with one of Edinburgh's best known streets, is described as "problematic" due to his connections with the slave trade by local resident Andrew Lochead, who started a petition that now has 14,500 signatures.

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-an...dundas-2998525

[JamesBond007]

But modern slavery still exists it is called involuntary commitment to a psychiatric hospital and court ordered AOT psychiatric treatment. Did you know they had a mental illness for runaway black slaves ? It was called drapetomania and all psychiatric diagnosis are similarly nonsense and pseudo-scientific -- it is an attempt to depoliticize the oppressive forces of capitalism because the ruling neo-liberal capitalist class seeks to remove itself from the problems it creates in society by shifting the site of change from the community to the individual and this can include psychiatric labels. Also, modern blacks are more likely to have a diagnosis of 'schizophrenia' than whites and asians etc...