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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STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 8 months agoI 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.
Moneo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 8 months ago
BC just had the conservative party leader saying residential schools and SOGI are the same thing.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
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rbesfe@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
The R in lemmy stands for Reasonable discussion
Aabbcc@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Ok but at least explain where the nuance is missing?
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
wombatula@lemm.ee 8 months 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.
mayo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
T&R is a thing
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?
JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Or the forced sterilisations of indigenous women… many of these things happening in recent years…
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.
bbuez@lemmy.world 8 months 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
PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Down one all you want. Dipshit echo chamber.
olicvb@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I swear i saw this exact post and exchange like 3 months ago O.O
JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 8 months 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.
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…
Cruxifux@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Starlight tours are so fucked up man