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What kind of issue does someone have to have to marginally rotate a red legend box?
I’ve been living outside of Canada for a number of years now. Up until recently, I actually became more proud of Canada. Patriotic even. I almost convinced myself that Canada had something special that the rest of the world didn’t.
That all came crashing down because of three things:
- Unmarked graves of native kids at former residential schools. 250 in BC. 751 in Saskatchewan. They were just kids. How many more haven’t we found?
- Horsy pigs pointing AR-15s at unarmed Wet’suwet’en protestors. On Wet land. In their own homes. Why? For the gall of protesting against the inevitable environmental disaster that the Coastal GasLink pipeline would bring.
- More horsy pigs letting the convidiots run rampant around Ottawa, and hugging and kissing convidiots at the Alberta border.
Kid gloves for white people; violence for natives. It crushed me to realize it, but Canada is an ethno-state like any other.
You lost me at the ethno-state. They are issues to be addressed sure and it’s good to put them on the table instead of shoving them under it but you can’t just cherrypick the worst offenses and conclude ethno-state.
On the topic of unmarked graves, a good essay: https://lemm.ee/post/10348169 - https://aeon.co/essays/we-must-not-forget-what-happened-to-the-worlds-indigenous-children
And the standing ovation and subsequent apologism for an SS volunteer not withstanding.
I think “like any other” is the key take away here.
Canada isn’t any better, but for the most part is also not worse than anyone else in these matters.
That’s not to say that we should be excused for doing the bad things (as a culture/society) because other people also do the bad things and sometimes worse bad things… no. Everyone is guilty. It’s a global problem. The names and groups change, the methods change, the outcomes change somewhat, but the story is largely the same regardless of where you go.
The only logical conclusion is that we have a long way to go before the civilization we have built, could be considered “civilized” in any way, shape, or form.
The internet will always be be telling you that you should hate your own country. No matter which country you’re from, it’s the worst country in the world. Funny how that is.
Kid gloves for white people; violence for natives.
Umm… I’m not sure how to approach this, because I’m pretty sure people don’t care about the facts and just want to push whatever political narrative, but here:
Also man… The freedom convoy was removed, had their accounts frozen, officers that donated to the convoy were disciplined, and docked pay. At the time I compared it against a pipeline protest by native people, and they were both removed in equal time.
Remember Occupy Wallstreet? Go google Occupy Wallstreet Kettling, and tell me how “handled with kitty gloves” people are.
The thing I can’t stand about all of this is Natives recieve tons of support, and recognition in Canada. Like dude. I’m not saying racism doesn’t exist, and I’m not saying there isn’t generational trauma, and other issues, but just as a matter of fact, in Canada under law Natives aren’t given less, they’re given more.
But fuck reality eh.
Not sure I’d be confident linking to sky news and using the term “reality”.
It’s called Restitutions. It’s when white people say 'My bad!!’ and bashfully try and make good of the atrocities they have orchestrated in the past against ethnic groups, more often than not half hearted and poorly distributed.
“Oh shit! We massacred your tribe and stole your children? What? The children had their teeth yanked out instead of getting dental care? Soorry, eh. Have a field house for your shitty little park.”
The solution as always is to stop electing ‘conservatives’. All people want to move hard with reparations and reconciliation with the exception of RW politicians and their white supremacist base. We need to outnumber them at the polls until they have no say.
Oh fuck! Did hey acctually bring up one body yet. Must have missed it.
Honestly that bit of blue makes the whole thing pop. Looks really good
As a French Canadian (Acadian), I don’t mind it either. It’s a nice looking flag. Something about the blue being proportional to the French speaking population kinda irks me though.
Albertan reporting in. I like it too!
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I mean… it’s at least a little bit of one
Hahah nice. I like both of these. I thought about the second one but then figured it was too close to the flag of France, even though my peoples flag is basically the France flag with a yellow star in the upper left corner.
I really like the first one too but I also feel like changing the maple leaf to blue would not fly with a lot of people.
Maybe the original Canadian duality flag was the best compromise 😂
Replace the maple with a fleur de lys.
You Cajuns and your starry tricolore are all right with me!
Remember the color for the natives and rejoice.
OOF yeahhhh… oops 💀
That… actually honestly makes it look better. No politics intended, just saying that it looks nice
Looks like a hockey rink
Man, your blue stripe flag is much nicer than our blue stripe flag.
The N in lemmy stands for nuance
There is no nuance in human rights.
Also, this is lemmyshitpost, tf you want
Indigenous rights in Canada is like the silent ‘b’ in doubt
It’s there, no one pronounces it and everyone hates it when they have to write it.
…why is the bottom 50 pixels or so cut off the image?
The deep state censored it
meme was probably stolen and the name of the original creator cut out
Contains the fourth thing Canada is comprised of…
Sharp angles?
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Some just dont have to look very hard
The purple in China’s flag stands for freedom
China has the CCP not the PPC
PPC is the only real China. CCP are fakes.
Is this a shitpost because blue actually represents the Quebecois who view themselves as oppressed the way they oppressed Indigenous People, for whom orange/yellow/black/red/white are more representative colours?
I really think y’all should just let that one marinate.
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The leaf hides a bunch if Nazi runes.
Runes are not nazi. Use by Nazis is misappropriation of Norse mythology.
so is the swastika but you still get banned from Minecraft servers for building one at spawn 😡
I wouldn’t know.
Canada influenced the Nazis, not the other way around.
Fucking excuse me?
Hitler’s American model describes Hitler’s dreams to match the power of the colonial powers of the day, Britain and France. But his inspiration came from the colonies themselves. In this book the American model with regard to race is explored, rather than canadian systems, but clearly Canada is not very different in that regard.
Some highlights:
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The Nazis found that the one-drop rule was too harsh - (only because mixed Jews were somewhat white-passing whereas mixed Black people couldn’t pass and remained legally Black).
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Manifest Destiny inspired Lebensraum (probably Canada and Australia too).
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Nazi Race Law/Blood laws and second class citizenship laws for Jews were inspired by similar laws in the US (‘legal realism’ justification’).
You literally named USA for all 3, get the fuck out of here you hatemonger. The fuck is wrong with you spreading disinformation like this?
I’m describing the ‘highlights’ in the book you illiterate. What’s difficult to understand?
Canada is a state, its not possible to hate-crime Canada you twat.
Who the fuck said hate crime? And your highlights were all the USA so why the fuck would I read your trash book?
You’re fostering hate against another country, nobody said it was a crime but you’re telling lies to discredit a country for no apparent reason.
Blocked, goodbye hatemonger.
Are you denying that Canada is a colonial project? Or are you mad that other people on the internet are aware of your Yaroslav Hunka problem? Of which there are many in Northern America from what I hear.
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Unlikely, seeing as Canada didn’t achieve full legal autonomy until 1982.
