Australia has the same thing going on right down to the racist talking points and masturbatory delusion that we've atoned for past wrongs. crazy how now-ex-british colonies went all in on doing genocide against First Nations folk whose land they stole, even after gaining independence.
Oh girl I cut ties and have been straight beefing with one (super white and super Canadian) BNP on here who thinks "land back" is where we all take over and give them white ppl Kim Kardashian's houses and lift them out of mediocrity lmfaooooo
My guy is canadian and I have a lot of canadian friends. I see people post about how accepting canada is but I'm like "let me talk to your POC". It's always white people who say it's accepting. During the election we kept hearing "your emotional support canadian", like, they aren't better off.
Canadians are racist AF. The slurs people dropped there like they were ok words was mind boggling to me. They're on par with European racism, it's so casual!
No more idiots need to come in here and tell me how they're Canadian and I'm wrong because the Canadian federal government gives "tons of money" to my indigenous relatives of so-called Canada
I was on a flight to Singapore once and was seated next to an Indian man and a Canadian honeymooning couple. They were talking about traveling and how America and Australia were so racist, then the Indian guy brought up Canadian Natives and they got upset and didn’t talk the rest of the flight.
Don't be like the "The Only Human From Canada" person (white I'm sure, definitely not indigenous) and pull a "Well, actually" telling me I'm wrong because *racist talking point about natives getting free money and having their own gov* and how they have National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
She uses that to tell me that Canada is actually so so so much better than the US and opened it with "Canadian here" trying to speak over a indigenous person and silence me
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation exists because of the work of First Nations people. But, guess what? There is a rise of residential school denialism every year! The day existing is not some proof that uh actually, Canada is way way better to indigenous people.
she deleted the shit and blocked me but I have a whole thread with just a little look into how so-called Canada is "so much better" to the indigenous people living there
Own it if you're gonna "Well, actually" someone. Don't dirty delete after trying to hijack the conversation and tell me I'm wrong because you live in so-called Canada so you'd know better than an indigenous person about colonialism in a "country" that is a part of Turtle Island
I don't think its a utopia, but I do think it seems like it might be better than terf island. Considering Brexit just fucked our imports and exports, and the Tories fucked the rest of our economy, its got to be better than here. Also when I visited on holiday everyone was lovely. ❤️
Canada has a rise in residential school denialism every year. The RCMP brutalizes & murders indigenous people constantly, there is a large number of MMIW in Canada, mass graves of indigenous children who didn't survive residential schools, the remains of indigenous women are sitting in a landfill
I think this rep is 99% from Boomers who went to Canada to escape the draft during Vietnam and it's just now permanently in America's sub conscious (especially for Americans who don't actually know a thing on Canada
If nothing else, I saw so many goddamned Trump flags and hand-painted signs as I crisscrossed Southern Ontario this year. I did it three times, along mostly the same route, and I saw new horrors each time.
There is also the whole thing where they imported a bunch of ss members post wwII and used them to union bust. Or how they inacted the right to die and immediately started asking everyone with a disability if they had considered MAID.
Um, are you perhaps referring to this, which was caused by an Australian company? (Canada did sue Romania for refusing to let them dig for gold in a world heritage site...)
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Perhaps ironically, by most utopian measures, the US is mid. It just hurts because it's obvious that with our resources we could do SO much better.
And, our rhetoric is laughably hypocritical.
i'm a settler, in canada. and canada is a deeply violent, whiet supremacist, genocidal settler-colonial occupation of stolen Indigenous lands.
canada likes to pretend it's "better than usa", but it fucking isn't. it's the same trash.