• @OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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    1156 months ago

    As a Canadian, I’m incredibly disappointed in my government for supporting this genocide and settling of stolen land. We’re on the wrong side of history with this.

    • @can@sh.itjust.works
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      546 months ago

      this genocide and settling of stolen land.

      Guess they’re concerned they’d have to look inward a little?

      • @zerfuffle
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        216 months ago

        Thing is, Canada has been looking inward. That’s what makes it worse.

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          56 months ago

          What has the Canadian state done to materially improve the conditions of the indigenous population? It’s all lip service and no action. The major difference here is that the project of ethnic and cultural genocide was largely successful, wiping out the chance of any serious resistance movement.

          • @zerfuffle
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            76 months ago

            At least in BC, they gave the First Nations people basically carte blanche to develop tranches of land in the middle of Vancouver.

            In today’s real estate environment, I’m sure I don’t need to tell you how valuable that is.

    • @Omega_Haxors
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      6 months ago

      They can shut the fuck up about “truth and reconciliation” while simultaneously supporting a modern day indigenous genocide on top of continuing on their own indigenous genocide in secret. I knew they were full of shit after they made the Queen’s day of death a holiday.

      • @zerfuffle
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        246 months ago

        It’s so absolutely insane how Canada is happy to tout reconciliation with First Nations people and simultaneously support the genocide of an indigenous people.

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          That’s just a resistance-numbing effort. In the courts and on the streets they very much continue their genocide at full speed, and judging by how shocked as shit people were at discovering the mass graves and how quickly everyone forgot about it after the initial shock, it’s working.

    • @otp@sh.itjust.works
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      196 months ago

      Disappointed, sure, but I don’t think you should be surprised.

      Canada was founded as a country specifically for the purpose of genocide. Virtually the entire country is on settled and stolen land. It would be hypocritical to be against someone else doing the same.

        • @otp@sh.itjust.works
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          106 months ago

          You’re right, but there’s a reason why Canadians don’t talk about their “founding fathers” the way Americans do.

          I don’t know how many other countries are the same way.

          The first PM was explicitly racist against indigenous people, and IIRC, the country was explicitly founded on the basis of white supremacy over indigenous peoples.

          • @zerfuffle
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            96 months ago

            That’s true for a lot of places, it’s just that Canadians recognize that.

      • @zerfuffle
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        16 months ago

        Canada was founded more than 150 years ago. I’m surprised that in that intervening period, nothing has changed.

    • @barsoap@lemm.ee
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      166 months ago

      Generally speaking if Germany votes in favour of this kind of resolution and you against, you done fucked up.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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        86 months ago

        Because Canada itself is an apartheid regime, and doesn’t want to set a “wrong” precedent.