Greg Wycliffe - July 11, 2026


Statue Double Standards


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Length

1 minute

Words per minute

196.71

Word count

319

Sentence count

16

Harmful content

Toxicity

2

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Hate speech

2

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00:00:00.000 So you know how there's all this controversy around old statues and it's like well this guy
00:00:04.800 was actually a bad guy he had these he was a racist whatever we got to tear the statue down
00:00:09.380 we got to remove well it's funny because I'm at a park Riverdale Park and I just came across this
00:00:14.180 statue I'd never seen before this is it right here Dr. Sun Yat-sen this is in a Toronto park
00:00:21.620 and I thought wouldn't it be fun to look up what his most controversial views are
00:00:26.020 His oath was to expel the Tartar barbarians to restore China.
00:00:30.080 It was explicitly ethnic nationalism. 0.88
00:00:32.840 Framing the Qing Dynasty not as a bad government, but as a foreign race occupying China.
00:00:37.760 And he strongly believed that China was five races under one union.
00:00:42.720 So he's an ethnic nationalist for China.
00:00:45.540 I have no problem with that.
00:00:47.080 I think that people, I think it's natural to be a nationalist.
00:00:49.820 I think it's natural to realize there's a connection between ethnicity and your nation.
00:00:53.740 I just think it's really funny that we're allowed to have Chinese nationalists proudly displayed
00:01:00.980 in Canadian parks. And you might say, but Greg, he did a lot of good things too. He did a lot
00:01:05.960 of great things too. Well, yeah, of course. But isn't this the whole problem? Whenever we talk
00:01:10.580 about a Canadian icon of history, we don't talk about any of the good things. We're just like,
00:01:15.120 tear it down because he had outdated views on the race and the nation and yada, yada, yada.
00:01:20.180 anyway the double standard is really funny if you're not white you can
00:01:24.700 basically be as racist and as nationalistic as you want but if but if
00:01:29.180 you are white you're literally gonna lose your job and your reputation will 0.93
00:01:32.260 be destroyed if you feel the same way just wanted to point that out 1.00