Comment on The truth about Canada

• JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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      • bbuez@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There was no forced sterilization… but it was very incentivized, oh and inmates were forced to. Not the hottest take but nice aerobatics nonetheless

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      • PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Down one all you want. Dipshit echo chamber.

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    • olicvb@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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      • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Maybe you’re a time traveller! If I were you, I would use this power for the silliest things as long as they’re funny.

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  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Starlight tours are so fucked up man

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• Moneo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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      • Cruxifux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What’s SOGI

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  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh yeah, they’ve acknowledged it alright.

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• rbesfe@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The R in lemmy stands for Reasonable discussion

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  • Aabbcc@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ok but at least explain where the nuance is missing?

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    • rbesfe@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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      • wombatula@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And 9/10 times when you see one of these posts, it’s from an American (and/or largely commented on by Americans saying “Canada bad!”)

        We spent a hundred years as allies, and then the two dumbest presidents to ever exist poisoned our relationship, and now the only time an American even mentions Canada it’s either to dunk on us for their own satisfaction or to make an argument in their senseless “Left” vs “Right” culture war screaming match.

        I hated it at the time, but I legitimately miss the days when it was all “eh” and “hoser” and “maple syrup”, sure it meant they didn’t know anything about us, but at least it wasn’t this endless negativity.

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• mayo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  T&R is a thing

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