Posted on 02/07/2026 8:50:59 AM PST by simpson96
mericans are finally learning that, six years ago, Toronto baptized an urban park with a painfully long, awkward name in the Huron-Wendat language. (snip) If you look at what the AWFL person behind the Canadian rename had to say, you’ll understand that leftists aren’t just being silly; they have a goal.(snip)
It seems that in 2018, Toronto built a nice urban park, which it intended to call “Woodsy Park,” (snip) However, because this is Canada, which has now decided to lose the war it fought and won against the indigenous people many centuries ago, the chosen park name was considered insufficiently disrespectful. Instead, to honor the “First People,” as Canadians call the aboriginal people, Toronto renamed the park. The current name is Ethennonnhawahstihnen’ Park, which also includes the Ethennonnhawahstihnen’ Community Recreation Center, both of which are located on Ethennonnhawahstihnen’ Lane.
That really trips off the tongue of the native English speaker, doesn’t it? (snip)
Shelley Carroll, the very white middle-aged lady* who was then and still is now a member of the Toronto City Council and who was behind the move to rename the park, created a helpful video explaining how the naming came to be and now to say the name correctly:
(snip)
“Learning to say the name is just a small way we can all be accountable to healing our relationship with our nation’s first peoples.”
And there you have it: It’s not just respect, or what was once passed off in the late 20th century as a form of cultural sharing, it’s obeisance. You will comply.
Here’s the takeaway: If a smiling leftist white woman puts on her smiley preschool teacher voice and tells you that something is all sunshine and lollipops, she’s lying. It’s always about the agenda, and the agenda is twofold:
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Are you sure that isn’t a picture of Karen? She looks like a Karen to me.
and no one cares
As a sign of solidarity, Shelley Carroll should legally change her name to Shelley Ethennonnhawahstihnen. That would be nice.
Note that the final apostrophe was dropped. That should take care of any culture appropriation claims.
It's short for "Bob".
She clearly can’t understand normal thinking.
I bet the locals will just end up referring to it as “Ethen Park” and since that sounds similar to an English name the AWFLs will be up in arms about it.
I reject that the indigenous were “first.” However, they were one before us. Therefore, if we are the n-th peoples (lefties like the word “peoples”), I propose that we refer to all indigenous crybabies as the “(n-1)st” peoples.
Leftists demand obedience and compliance.
If you fail to pronounce the park’s name correctly you will almost certainly be guilty of hate speech.
Hahahahaha...the author (Andrea Widburg, who I like) compared her to Elizabeth Warren, who is, after all, 1/1024 Native American!
Claptrap. How about being accountable in a BIG way by handing over all that land back to them, like, NOW?
Do it NOW. You know, to "give back" and "be accountable."
Do it now, Karen.
Since the leftists think we evolved from monkeys they should deed all their land to chimps or apes or orangutans.
You must loudly support and advocate any mental illness or ideological trope they put forth, or you be labeled as a racist, sexist, bigot, you name it.
Canada has formally accepted its new masters, the First Nation. I’m sure it will bow down in submission to muzzies too once there are enough of them.
I'm not. Sod off.
Ethenshogwash
That’s because leftism is a mental disorder.
Well said.
Exactly.
Correct.
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