Guys, I'm going to have to shut down comments on this one — it's getting pretty ugly in some of them. That's too bad. We'd done okay so far. But this is getting out of control and I can't just keep deleting them as they come. Locked.
I completely agree with her position on the use of 'decolonization'. High time the same position is taken on the gratuitous use of 'genocide' without any qualification whatsoever. It's unqualified use by people who should know better [ looking at you Senator Francis ] is an insult to Canadians with any comprehension of the meaning of the word and its' historical context.
While I agree with the writer in how she defines "colonization", I would suggest that the shakedown of our taxpayers to the tune of millions of dollars in the name of truth and reconciliation is also a form of "decolonization." I will also like to include the false narrative of the murder of native children in the residential school is a false flag to extort more money from the taxpayers. Reconciliation will follow truth.
There are not many who describe the residential schools as a place of murder. They are accurately described as a place of abuse and malnutrition. More importantly, though, the residential school system was a deliberate attempt to eradicate the various cultures of aboriginal people from Canada by the federal government and several Christian sects.
For a century, children were forcibly removed from their homes to be taken to places where they are not allowed to speak their language or practice any of their traditions. Not only did this break the chain between generations, which was the purpose, of course, but these children grew up with no knowledge of what it means to be in a family, to be raised by parents who love you. The effect on the Aboriginals was to shatter their communities.
It is imperative that a reconciliation occur. I am still not sure what that looks like, but we non-Aboriginals owe it to the Aboriginals in Canada.
It also doesn't help that Indigenous people burned tires and vehicles on tracks and roads to further their position. That's akin to at least piracy, if not terrorism. Holding a country and its commerce hostage and saying the ends justify the means seems like what we're seeing in Israel, doesn't it?
Sorry to step in here guys, but I do feel the need to acknowledge that burning tires or, even, "shaking down taxpayers" is 100,000 miles away from mass rape and beheading newborns.
Come on, guys.
If I see this comments thread devolve into crapping on FN people I'm going to shut it down real quick.
Yes, because disrupting a fossil fuel supply chain is entirely equivocal in moral terms to the acts of rape, hostage taking, or the cutting off of food, water, electricity, and internet access to an already vulnerable population. Are you actually serious?
Edit: I'm not asking. Please don't reply. I can't waste more brain cells on such an abhorrently ignorant take.
the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
A false equivalence or false equivalency is an informal fallacy in which an equivalence is drawn between two subjects based on flawed or false reasoning. This fallacy is categorized as a fallacy of inconsistency. Colloquially, a false equivalence is often called "comparing apples and oranges."
I see "decolonization" as just a bullshit word anyway. Canada's indigenous people can and do use the courts and moralsuasion to try to mitigate the loss of rights and properties to invaders from
nearly 200 years ago. To decolonize would mean that all the waves of immigrants leave and return the land to the numerous indigenous tribes which everyone knows won't happen. I think that Canada's first peoples have, for the most part, done most of their struggle within legal limits. The same cannot be said from Hamas nor for Israel.
Guys, I'm going to have to shut down comments on this one — it's getting pretty ugly in some of them. That's too bad. We'd done okay so far. But this is getting out of control and I can't just keep deleting them as they come. Locked.
I completely agree with her position on the use of 'decolonization'. High time the same position is taken on the gratuitous use of 'genocide' without any qualification whatsoever. It's unqualified use by people who should know better [ looking at you Senator Francis ] is an insult to Canadians with any comprehension of the meaning of the word and its' historical context.
While I agree with the writer in how she defines "colonization", I would suggest that the shakedown of our taxpayers to the tune of millions of dollars in the name of truth and reconciliation is also a form of "decolonization." I will also like to include the false narrative of the murder of native children in the residential school is a false flag to extort more money from the taxpayers. Reconciliation will follow truth.
There are not many who describe the residential schools as a place of murder. They are accurately described as a place of abuse and malnutrition. More importantly, though, the residential school system was a deliberate attempt to eradicate the various cultures of aboriginal people from Canada by the federal government and several Christian sects.
For a century, children were forcibly removed from their homes to be taken to places where they are not allowed to speak their language or practice any of their traditions. Not only did this break the chain between generations, which was the purpose, of course, but these children grew up with no knowledge of what it means to be in a family, to be raised by parents who love you. The effect on the Aboriginals was to shatter their communities.
It is imperative that a reconciliation occur. I am still not sure what that looks like, but we non-Aboriginals owe it to the Aboriginals in Canada.
You may want to read some Terry Glavin and Jon Kay, friend.
That's enough, guys.
It also doesn't help that Indigenous people burned tires and vehicles on tracks and roads to further their position. That's akin to at least piracy, if not terrorism. Holding a country and its commerce hostage and saying the ends justify the means seems like what we're seeing in Israel, doesn't it?
Sorry to step in here guys, but I do feel the need to acknowledge that burning tires or, even, "shaking down taxpayers" is 100,000 miles away from mass rape and beheading newborns.
Come on, guys.
If I see this comments thread devolve into crapping on FN people I'm going to shut it down real quick.
JG
Crapping on them? Yeah ok.
Yes, because disrupting a fossil fuel supply chain is entirely equivocal in moral terms to the acts of rape, hostage taking, or the cutting off of food, water, electricity, and internet access to an already vulnerable population. Are you actually serious?
Edit: I'm not asking. Please don't reply. I can't waste more brain cells on such an abhorrently ignorant take.
ter·ror·ism
/ˈterəˌrizəm/
noun
the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
A false equivalence or false equivalency is an informal fallacy in which an equivalence is drawn between two subjects based on flawed or false reasoning. This fallacy is categorized as a fallacy of inconsistency. Colloquially, a false equivalence is often called "comparing apples and oranges."
If you don’t see that you made my argument for me, I can’t help you.
So much for "Turtle Island" and "Nature's Caregivers" - burning tires and cars to blockade a railway is not exactly carbon-neutral.
I see "decolonization" as just a bullshit word anyway. Canada's indigenous people can and do use the courts and moralsuasion to try to mitigate the loss of rights and properties to invaders from
nearly 200 years ago. To decolonize would mean that all the waves of immigrants leave and return the land to the numerous indigenous tribes which everyone knows won't happen. I think that Canada's first peoples have, for the most part, done most of their struggle within legal limits. The same cannot be said from Hamas nor for Israel.
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