Fun fact: the last residential school for native children closed in the 90s.
I also see memes about police shooting people's dogs for no reason. Canada did that one first and much much worse. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Eskimo_Dog#:~:text=the%20Inuktitut%20language.-,RCMP%20dog%20killings,range%20from%201%2C200%20to%2020%2C000.
"Estimates of the number of dogs killed range from 1,200 to 20,000."
Holy. Shit.
Canada's genocide of its first nation's people was gross.
It was a system of forced assimilation through child abduction, economic and nutritional deprivation, and political disenfranchisement.
But it happened that way because Canada DID see them as people.
It IS called genocide. When it's called genocide it's usually done with the clarification that it was a cultural genocide to distinguish it from the common conception of genocide (murder factory genocide).
I don't think mass graves is the right term for the recent[ish] [re-]discovery of unmarked graves.
The discoveries document that the killings weren't the result of the sort of misguided, racist, and overzealous military campaigns which are tragically common through colonial history. (And result in mass graves)
It's not 'those soldiers were racist and wrong, they shouldn't have done that'. It's not one commander or general that was overly brutal. It was sustained racist indifference, complicity, and callousness by settler Canada for 100 years! That is a much bigger indictment of Canada as an institution.
Don't forget the iron grip of the catholic church that aided this horrific time
There's no hate quite like Christian love.
America was founded on colonial genocide.
Pretty much everywhere was founded on colonial genocide...
It's just how recent it happened.
Like, you're giving America shit for what the English, Spanish, and other countries did before America even existed. But it's hard to really blame even the English. It was the English people doing it, it was their royalty who were French.
For the vast amount of human history, some random group you may never have even heard about could just roll up and conquer you and take all your shit.
The context of this image is that Europe is making fun of something uniquely American, so you would think that America would be making fun of something uniquely European. They are not.
Do you think the country got together to workshop this meme?
Or do you think a teenager who's still in highschool and might even know less than you made it?
You're right, something something whataboutism who gives a fuck about injustice π€‘π€‘π€‘
No, I'm saying it's stupid to blame the people of a country for what their monarchies were doing...
It's not the fault of "the English" it's the fault of the guy who was King at the time.
Be pissed all you want, we all should be.
Just be pissed at the people who are actually the problem.
But that's probably too much to ask of someone unironically using a fucking clown emoji
Yeah I often joke that natives are the black people of Canada, but it's sad there's still so much injustice for natives here in Canada. My best friend was killed by a truck driver while he was trying to ride his bike to work in the morning and they never even charged the guy, as far as I know he's still driving around. Burying him was more painful than having a kidney stone and the fact that he won't see justice because he's native and cops don't care is just salt on the wound.
I'm sorry to hear about that. Can anything be done?
Unfortunately not, this was 2 years ago now. Nothing to do but move on π
The Canadian justice system is notoriously lenient and also incredibly slow.
We have a dude who cut off and ate part of someone's head on a greyhound bus... who's been released to general population with only medication stipulations
Russia and china are still doing genocide today...
US is still running a gulag system....
Never again expect a few more times of course...
Best part about lemmy, it sorts by controversial for you.
Oh Canada...