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Originally Posted by rubecube
Really? Outside of the Japanese during World War II, which group has seen the majority of discrimination, hate crimes, racist sentiment, etc., during the 20th and 21st century?
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But today black people are the most frequently discriminated against in terms of hate crimes based on ethnicity while the Jewish faith has the reported most hate crimes committed based on religion reasons. And it's not like either of those groups were having a swell time before the turn of the century. I understand, or let's more accurately say as a non-visible minority try to understand, the plight of the Aboriginal but I feel at one point self-responsibility needs to be accounted for. And I know for a large portion of the Aboriginal's it is, it's the minority of Aboriginals who perpuate the negative stereotypes.
Now I know it's easy to say whitey over here doesn't understand, and that's maybe true. But as the grandson of an Irish immigrant who came to Canada with nothing (fleeing after being shot because of the unrest over there) and was spit on here because of his heritage my own background isn't completely different from their's. And growing up in the NE I know enough folks who've had it extremely rough from where they came from, I mean my neighbour escaped a concentration camp in a crate.