Big tough oil men turn into limpwristed traitors who knuckle under when Trump calls to them. Fucking embarrassing.
Nationalize the oil already. Get the foreign corporations and their brain dead lackeys out.
Big tough oil men turn into limpwristed traitors who knuckle under when Trump calls to them. Fucking embarrassing.
Nationalize the oil already. Get the foreign corporations and their brain dead lackeys out.
I’m sorry, fucking what? I’m from Vancouver, born there, grew up there. There’s definitely a recognition of past injustices again FN and Japanese Canadians on Canada day. Richmond was home to 90%+ of Canada’s Japanese-descent citizens before WW2. But what you just said is un-fucking-hinged. Stop talking about shit you clearly don’t have a fucking clue about.
I’m from Vancouver, and currently live here. Vancouver does “Canada together” (not Canada Day celebration – because it’s triggering to some minority groups to Celebrate a nation that they view as a colonial genocidal occupier). No fireworks. And as you say, lots of recognition of past injustices. Most of the events are FN oriented, basket weaving, music, etc. There’re food trucks, which aren’t bad. It’s not so much a celebration of Canada, but a celebration of FN culture, and an assertion that FN culture is key to Canada. FN culture is often xenophobic, undemocratic, and unaccepting of ‘colonials’ (for good reason in some cases) – these aren’t, historically, Canadian values. It’s not so much “Let’s show off how great Canada is”, as it is “look back at all the bad stuff we did, and celebrate the victims with a hope for reconciliation”. So in that sense, yes, we do still “celebrate” on Canada day, but it’s not so much a celebration of Canada. The change over to this format happened around the same time as Trudeau’s “Postnational” comments, declaring us a people without a singular connecting culture.
I am FN…and again. Fuckin what?
You know when the last residential school closed?
1996
Try being part of a group that has been culturally suppressed for hundreds of years, the subject of a genocide, and then say “in some cases”.
You need to read up on Canadian history. Even recent history shows that’s not entirely true.
Pull your head out your ass bud. I think you’re getting out what you put in.
So you’re in a demographic that gets ‘uplifted’/‘praised’ at the Canada Together event – explains why you view it differently.
One of the most common graffiti tags around Vancouver is FN tagging things about giving land back, or wanting colonials out. The MMIWG report recommendations largely orient around FN-exclusive services and privileges. The criminal system literally has to have a race-based reviews as part of judgment, which is an attempt to justify the law punishing people differently based on racist segregation, giving specific benefits (in the form of reduced sentences/bail conditions) to criminals of FN descent, and giving harsher punishment for crimes committed against people of FN descent – JWR, our first FN AG, literally campaigned for and implemented this race-based privilege, her policies being a big reason we had the huge uptick in repeat violent offenders being released onto the streets around the time COVID started (it became much more noticeable after the lock downs). Housing is built explicitly for FN. The Hereditary chief system, and band management in general, is not inclusive, not overly accountable, nor something other races can “immigrate” to – a black guy can’t show up and become a FN, the system is racist by definition. Non-FN that do things like create art/images that resemble FN things, get sued / torn down / shamed – hell, my Mom once brought some home-made Dreamcatchers to a craft sale in the 90s, and was verbally assaulted by a FN vendor (whose dreamcatchers weren’t selling, as they were lower quality) until she had to leave.
I’m not allowed to ask questions about the residential school system, or question the narrative around it being a genocide, as questioning it is on schedule to be claimed a hate crime. So you win that one by authoritarian decree, I have to accept whatever you say about it. Because the system doesn’t treat people equally. Very Canadian – so you’re right, we do have very authoritarian tendencies, even in recent history.