Greg Wycliffe - July 11, 2026


Statue Double Standards


Episode Stats


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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Summary

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Dr. Sun Yat-sen was a Chinese nationalist who served as Prime Minister of China in the early 20th century. He believed that China should be ruled by five races under one union, and supported the removal of the Tartar barbarians.

Transcript

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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00:01:15.120 tear it down because he had outdated views on the race and the nation and yada, yada, yada.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