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Originally Posted by Peanut
I had two different thoughts in my post.
1. This is a thread full of racist comments that hopefully we will look back on soon enough and be able to clearly see that these comments are racist and biased, and that we’ve progressed as a nation and society in our attitudes and relationship with Indigenous people in Canada.
2. Saying “their language sounds dumb” is, ironically, a ridiculously stupid statement. It’s not one of the racist comments I’m rferring to in thought #1. It is, however, incredibly ridiculous. Why does Cree “sound dumb” and Chinese, French, or German does not? Or maybe that guy thinks all languages except English “sound dumb”.
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It was a somewhat facetious comment that everyone took mega seriously (though I do think they've purposely picked some very over the top names just to get media coverage). I just find it amusing that there's a number of people that would be content to just roll over and have the names of the city they live in changed to something different all because a minority group is making some over the top claim to it. Anything to look as progressive as possible, I suppose.