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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
Tell me about the average middle class Canadian who didn't take to the streets and focused on things in their own life while the residential school system was going on. What does it say about them that they even had the vote that could have been used to change that system?
Do you think it's coincidental that the murder of George Floyd erupts in nationwide protests in the US at a time when there is massive unemployment, a pandemic, businesses shutting down and an general sense of getting left behind among the middle class? Would the same protests be erupting over racial injustices if main street was doing great and people were all busy with work?
Do your neighbors step outside each day and think about how the land where they live is theirs now as a result of the genocide of tens of millions of indigenous people, with survivors who actually were pushed into spaces that keep them out of sight and who still face discrimination? Do they spend each day fighting to correct this, or do they spend each day trying to improve the lives of their own family?
Do you think average people in China are just people trying to deal with paying mortgages, raising their kids well, saving for retirement and having social and family life, like your neighbors are, or are they immoral monsters?
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I think
many Canadians are very aware of the atrocities of the past, yes. I don’t wish to get into a debate regarding the current state of indigenous affairs in Canada, but I wholeheartedly would disagree with the assertion that middle-class Canadians continue to ignore genocidal acts.
The last residential school closed in 1996? You’d have to be what, 42+, to have had any say in the matter back then?