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Originally Posted by EtchySketch9
And it just amazes me how someone can share some story about their parents who fleed to Canada and then turn around and try to compare those "hardships" to the total colonization of an entire race of people who were minding their own business here long before everything was stolen from them.
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Why can't you show compassion for both? They're both traumatic for the people experiencing them. Having your life turned completely upside down running away from your homeland is very similar to your life being uprooted in front of you. My grandfather immigrated to Canada alone with nothing when he was a young teenager, and spent his first week in Ontario living in a ditch on the side of a road. Should I say "cool story gramps" and shrug it off "you don't have it as hard as they did"?
It seems ignorant to ignore the plight of someone because someone else might have had it worse.