• HeroicBillyBishop@lemmy.ca
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    15 days 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

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      15 days 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.

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        15 days 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

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          15 days ago

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

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              15 days 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!

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                  15 days 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.