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Old 01-24-2013, 03:01 PM   #937
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Originally Posted by AR_Six View Post
Hold up. You post a bunch of very pertinent information that is well sourced and then you compare a systemic problem to the Pickton murders? Are you serious? Way to undermine a valid point with sensationalism. The issues facing aboriginal women are a product of larger social problems in this country in the same way that the ridiculously high rate of incarceration among first nations is. It has nothing to do with there being a lot of psychopathic murderers targeting FN women specifically.
Pickton didn't target First Nations women specifically. He targeted vulnerable women, i.e., drug addicted prostitutes who the police didn't care about (the majority of whom happen to be first nations, due of course to those same broad social problems that you referred to.) That is why the Pickton murders are an excellent example of the appalling problem of violence against first nations and aboriginal women in Canada.
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