{"id":2128,"date":"2009-12-14T12:56:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T16:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2010-02-22T15:27:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T19:27:25","slug":"qotd-bc-does-a-sneaky-anti-pc-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/12\/14\/qotd-bc-does-a-sneaky-anti-pc-move\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: BC does a sneaky anti-PC move"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Don\u2019t tell anybody, but I\u2019m rather tickled that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/british-columbia\/story\/2009\/12\/11\/bc-queen-charlottle-islands-renamed-haida-gwaii.html\" target=\"_blank\">Queen Charlotte Islands have been given back<\/a> the name of the <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.ca\/scholar?hl=en&#038;q=haida%20slavery&#038;rlz=1B3MOZA_enCA340CA341&#038;um=1&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;sa=N&#038;tab=ps\" target=\"_blank\">slaveholding empire that was once centred there<\/a>. Such a cheeky gesture! So politically incorrect! So contrary to the stifling liberal spirit of our age! It is almost literally as if Mississippi got renamed Whitetopia; and yet the progressives are simply <em>falling<\/em> over themselves with na\u00efve praise. I raise a glass to you and shoot you a sly wink, Government of British Columbia!<\/p>\n<p>Colby Cosh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2009\/12\/11\/come-to-think-of-it-why-use-volunteers-to-run-the-olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Come to think of it, why use &#8216;volunteers&#8217; to run the Olympics?&#8221;, <em>Macleans<\/em><\/a>, 2009-12-11<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t tell anybody, but I\u2019m rather tickled that the Queen Charlotte Islands have been given back the name of the slaveholding empire that was once centred there. Such a cheeky gesture! So politically incorrect! So contrary to the stifling liberal spirit of our age! It is almost literally as if Mississippi got renamed Whitetopia; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,41],"tags":[491,438],"class_list":["post-2128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-history","category-quotations","tag-bc","tag-firstnations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-yk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2798,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions\/2798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}