Ok, but give us some credit.
It was only last weekend we had a national holiday to celebrate how we treated the natives.
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We crammed it into the calendar immediately before Thanksgiving, where we celebrate what we did to the natives.
Thanksgiving, where we celebrate what we did to the natives.
Despite all the awful things that settlers have done to Aboriginals in Canada (and Native Americans in the USA), neither country's Thanksgiving is about that. Canada's Thanksgiving was originally a celebration of arrival in the New World. Over time, it became a harvest celebration.
I’ve got a shit ton of vegetables from my garden. I’m thankful for that and I’m going to share them with my friends.
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... Is that a celebration or a remembrance?
I mean, if you give people a long weekend they’re gonna celebrate.
I don’t know any white people who sat around in solemn reflection last weekend, but I know plenty who had an extra day of partying.
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I bought a medium mocha with orange sprinkles from Starbucks in solidarity.
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What kind of issue does someone have to have to marginally rotate a red legend box?
I've been living outside of Canada for a number of years now. Up until recently, I actually became more proud of Canada. Patriotic even. I almost convinced myself that Canada had something special that the rest of the world didn't.
That all came crashing down because of three things:
- Unmarked graves of native kids at former residential schools. 250 in BC. 751 in Saskatchewan. They were just kids. How many more haven't we found?
- Horsy pigs pointing AR-15s at unarmed Wet'suwet'en protestors. On Wet land. In their own homes. Why? For the gall of protesting against the inevitable environmental disaster that the Coastal GasLink pipeline would bring.
- More horsy pigs letting the convidiots run rampant around Ottawa, and hugging and kissing convidiots at the Alberta border.
Kid gloves for white people; violence for natives. It crushed me to realize it, but Canada is an ethno-state like any other.
On the topic of unmarked graves, a good essay: https://lemm.ee/post/10348169 - https://aeon.co/essays/we-must-not-forget-what-happened-to-the-worlds-indigenous-children
And the standing ovation and subsequent apologism for an SS volunteer not withstanding.
You lost me at the ethno-state. They are issues to be addressed sure and it's good to put them on the table instead of shoving them under it but you can't just cherrypick the worst offenses and conclude ethno-state.
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Honestly that bit of blue makes the whole thing pop. Looks really good
As a French Canadian (Acadian), I don't mind it either. It's a nice looking flag. Something about the blue being proportional to the French speaking population kinda irks me though.
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That... actually honestly makes it look better. No politics intended, just saying that it looks nice
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The N in lemmy stands for nuance
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.
Oh we're not even talking about all the ones they straight up murdered and successfully hid for decades in mass graves?
Or the forced sterilisations of indigenous women... many of these things happening in recent years..
I swear i saw this exact post and exchange like 3 months ago O.O
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.
I'll try and not mess the timeline too much <3
When you piss in the primordial ooze, try to hit one of the clumps that will eventually crawl out of the ocean and lead to my genetic line.
Trust me, that proto-lifeform earned it.
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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...
Starlight tours are so fucked up man
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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T&R is a thing
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There is no nuance in human rights.
Also, this is lemmyshitpost, tf you want
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...why is the bottom 50 pixels or so cut off the image?
The deep state censored it
meme was probably stolen and the name of the original creator cut out
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