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White Supremacist Ideas Are Entering Canadian Media and Politics (thetyee.ca)

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[-] HeroicBillyBishop@lemmy.ca -3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

right? But we cant change the past

Canadians have become aware of our colonial past and are working to correct it with Indigenous Canadians

[-] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Don't get me wrong, that's great! But how extensive is that work, when it comes to truly writing the wrongs of settler-Colonialism? That's a really big traumatic scar that impacts every area of a country's political life and institutions. Pointing that fact out, instead of treating Canadian white supremacy as somehow "new", isn't just some rude bummer of a take.

[-] HeroicBillyBishop@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 weeks ago

We need to help our Indigenous communities regain their pride and culture, while also collectively embracing a shared Canadian identity

starting with ensuring clean drinking water, access to quality education and health care services and a joint recognition of our shared pasts and futures

[-] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago

That's all very cool, do you have any info on initiatives doing this work in Canada, that I could read?

[-] HeroicBillyBishop@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 weeks ago

no, but your search algorithm of choice will

[-] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago

Nah man, telling me to do the leg work for you sucks actually.

You said:

Canadians have become aware of our colonial past and are working to correct it with Indigenous Canadians

Great! Show me! Back that up!

[-] HeroicBillyBishop@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 weeks ago

no shill, you are discussing this in bad faith

get fukt

[-] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago

Buddy...asking you to back up you're claim isn't bad faith. Are you fucking stupid?

I genuinely want to know about the things you're claiming, and you won't pony up the information. I'm not the one acting in bad faith. I responded to you, and pressed you, because you called another poster, who rightfully pointed out Canada's status as a settler colony, "not nice". If anything, trivializing the problem of Colonialism like that is what's bad faith here.