Comment on The truth about Canada

rbesfe@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I fail to see the nuance in situations like residential schools. Could you perhaps educate me so I can come to a more informed conclusion than sending thousands of indigenous Canadians to schools designed to stripped them of their culture is a bad thing to do.

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  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh we’re not even talking about all the ones they straight up murdered and successfully hid for decades in mass graves?

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    • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or the forced sterilisations of indigenous women… many of these things happening in recent years…

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      • PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There were no forced sterilization of indigenous women in Canada on the basis of them being indigenous.

        BC and Albert did use forced sterilization on inmates, homosexuals and mental hosiptal releases.

        Indigenous women have been talked into sterilization though the years for the same racist eugenics law but that is very different than being forced.

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      • olicvb@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I swear i saw this exact post and exchange like 3 months ago O.O

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Decades? The “Starlight Tours” have been happening more recently than that.

      Oh, you’re talking about the other thing. Too many of them to keep track of…

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      • Cruxifux@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Starlight tours are so fucked up man

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  • Moneo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The country has acknowledged the atrocities of residential schools for many years. If you want to criticize the current state of affairs by all means go ahead, but you are not contributing to the discussion in any way by pointing out residential schools were a bad thing.

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    • Cruxifux@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There is a large portion of the country that still denies it. In catholic schools they don’t take that native remembrance holiday off. Which is crazy to me.

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      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        BC just had the conservative party leader saying residential schools and SOGI are the same thing.

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    • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh yeah, they’ve acknowledged it alright.

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  • rbesfe@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The R in lemmy stands for Reasonable discussion

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    • Aabbcc@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ok but at least explain where the nuance is missing?

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      • rbesfe@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well for one there’s been leaps and bounds in paying reparations to first Nations groups, and despite not paying taxes they still get regular economic, infrastructure, and other help from the government.

        It’s not a perfect situation and progress is needed, but reductive posts like this do nothing to help the discussion up here. Our own problems get drowned out by Americans simplifying the situation for their small brains and regurgitating it

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  • mayo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    T&R is a thing

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• too_high_for_this@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There is no nuance in human rights.

  Also, this is lemmyshitpost, tf you want

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Indigenous rights in Canada is like the silent ‘b’ in doubt

  It’s there, no one pronounces it and everyone hates it when they have to write it.

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  • Sheeple@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As someone with English as their second, not first language…

    THE B IS SILENT? I ALWAYS PRONOUNCED IT. DID I DO IT WRONG?

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    • Nastybutler@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes. Please tell me you don’t also pronounce the K in knife.

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      • Elderos@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I kenow better

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      • Sheeple@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I do…

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    • PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, you did it wrong.

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