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Originally Posted by icecube
Its racist because it perpetuates the myth that First Nations people are in the position they're in because its their own fault for being lazy and not working harder. It perpetuates the myth that institutional racism is a thing of the past and that we now live in a meritocracy where people only have themselves to blame for their socio-economic situation. Arguments like that ignore the historic policies that are the reason Canada's aboriginal people are in the boat they're in now.
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It's only racist because you have decided it's racist. The exact same argument was made frequently around the Occupy protests, was it racist then?
Oh, and perhaps you'd be well advised to not come into a thread and blindly paint people as racist to only disappear and then return with half-assed responses. Typically that isn't going to work out so well.