Fun fact: the last residential school for native children closed in the 90s.
Canada’s genocide of its first nation’s people was gross.
It was a system of forced assimilation through child abduction, economic and nutritional deprivation, and political disenfranchisement.
But it happened that way because Canada DID see them as people.
It IS called genocide. When it’s called genocide it’s usually done with the clarification that it was a cultural genocide to distinguish it from the common conception of genocide (murder factory genocide).
I don’t think mass graves is the right term for the recent[ish] [re-]discovery of unmarked graves.
The discoveries document that the killings weren’t the result of the sort of misguided, racist, and overzealous military campaigns which are tragically common through colonial history. (And result in mass graves)
It’s not ‘those soldiers were racist and wrong, they shouldn’t have done that’. It’s not one commander or general that was overly brutal. It was sustained racist indifference, complicity, and callousness by settler Canada for 100 years! That is a much bigger indictment of Canada as an institution.
Don’t forget the iron grip of the catholic church that aided this horrific time
There’s no hate quite like Christian love.
I also see memes about police shooting people’s dogs for no reason. Canada did that one first and much much worse. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Eskimo_Dog#:~:text=the Inuktitut language.-,RCMP dog killings,range from 1%2C200 to 20%2C000.
Russia and china are still doing genocide today…
US is still running a gulag system…
Never again expect a few more times of course…
America was founded on colonial genocide.
Pretty much everywhere was founded on colonial genocide…
It’s just how recent it happened.
Like, you’re giving America shit for what the English, Spanish, and other countries did before America even existed. But it’s hard to really blame even the English. It wasnt the English people doing it, it was their royalty who were French.
For the vast amount of human history, some random group you may never have even heard about could just roll up and conquer you and take all your shit.
The context of this image is that Europe is making fun of something uniquely American, so you would think that America would be making fun of something uniquely European. They are not.
Do you think the country got together to workshop this meme?
Or do you think a teenager who’s still in highschool and might even know less than you made it?
Its origin is irrelevant. I was just pointing out that it’s nonsensical.
You’re right, something something whataboutism who gives a fuck about injustice 🤡🤡🤡
No, I’m saying it’s stupid to blame the people of a country for what their monarchies were doing…
It’s not the fault of “the English” it’s the fault of the guy who was King at the time.
Be pissed all you want, we all should be.
Just be pissed at the people who are actually the problem.
But that’s probably too much to ask of someone unironically using a fucking clown emoji
Don’t worry, muricaland got their Independence because they wanted to expand westwards and be assholes to indigenous people wich the Crown forbid.
No, America got their independence because the wealthiest didn’t want to pay tax to England.
And I seriously doubt the Crown wanted them to stop expanding or treat the natives better before that.
You should read that
If you actually think England would have honored those treaties to stop expanding tho…
Surprise! They’d have broken them just like America made and broke them.
They have, yes but not as much as they were after the independence.
