Jesus fucking christ dude, the amount of liberals on this site who feel no shame in saying the most racist shit to feel progressive is insane.

What the fuck does that mean, that Canada is five years behind? They exist on the same fucking planet, in the same system, on the same continent. There is no “well, France is Germany from the 1980s you see, on account of there being differences in rhetoric,” because it’s fucking stupid to act like that is what differentiates states. The only purpose in making the distinction you’re trying to make is to obscure the commonality between these states and therefore the specificity of their tactics based on the groups they target. No, Canada is not some “gentler” version of the United States, its tactics of racism and genocide differ due to its population and political conditions, to act like it is because they’re “nicer” is fucking racist.

You just fucking did that when you said starlight tours were inflicted on “marginalized people,” when no, they were specifically directed at indigenous people. It is racist to suggest that this and lynchings against black men in the US south are equivalent, as the circumstances under which they happened were distinct despite both groups being racialized. And guess what, Chattel slavery existed in Canada too, Canadians attended minstrel shows, Canadians segregated businesses, and Canadians continue to be racist against African American and other black groups in the country. Just because plantations and a slave-based economy did not emerge in Canada, that does not mean Canadians are magically inocculated from those racist perceptions, which means you should not take the absence of lynching as a sign of some sort of value in social justice. When you act like racism targets all groups equally, you’re reducing it to “when you’re bad to non-white people,” which functions to obscure the actual purpose that this system uses racism for.

Besides that, Alaska is also fucking cold and Leamington Ontario is not, that does not mean Americans are fucking cold Canadians, even if that was the reason why I said that explanation was stupid.