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That’s it, just wanted to send it out there, hosers 🍁 πŸ€—

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Just going to leave this here.

Edit: bring on the downvotes, makes you bigots easier to block.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You're not helping anything. Shit like that just builds resentment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Anything that challenges the status quo is inevitably going to make some people uncomfortable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Shit like that just builds resentment.

Only in people who would resent others for wanting equity and equality (in their country!!!), so you're saying much more about yourself there than you are about me, while helping absolutely no one (apart from perhaps the people who published that article, because you do prove them right, so not entirely useless I suppose), so as is always the case with bigots, your stance seems to be projection all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I would tend to agree with everything in the article. Be careful about calling anyone who downvotes you a bigot though...sowing division is ultimately not helpful. Canada was and is built on a very ugly foundation and some people will have a lot of trouble accepting that, but the people need to unite as a collective to make it a better place, not polarise ourselves (i.e. like the US).

[–] Yunlee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Thank you for sharing, I found that to be a good resource. I also recently learned that July 1st 1923 is when the federal government passed the Chinese Exclusion Act (link below). https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/multiculturalism-anti-racism/chinese-legacy-bc/history/discrimination/federal-exclusion-act#:~:text=Passed%20on%20July%201%2C%20Dominion,longer%20permitted%20to%20enter%20Canada.

I really wonder what life would be like here if Turtle Island wasn't violently and systematically colonized.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Thank you for the link too, I had heard about the terrible treatment the Chinese were subject to in the US, but had not known (but not really surprised) that Canada was up to the same crap.

And yeah, I wonder that too. I think the best we can do now is listen to those who survived it despite the continued attempts to erase their cultures, and learn from them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That article really just convinces me more that the cancel canada day movement is naive and misguided.

Don't take and sully our national day. Instead choose to enrich and improve it by making it more. There is room for both national pride on our Country and acknowledgement of past crimes.

Respectfully, fuck off.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

You're a fake ram