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Originally Posted by curves2000
I think some posters might have only read a portion of my post or had some pre-conceived notions.
I am not suggesting that this wasn't a terrible act or that the video wasn't awful or that Quebec or this hospital doesn't have a race or racism. Every single thing that we have seen in this video show's bad, in every way shape or form. In my post I acknowledged racism, sexism and other discrimination in the health care system exists 100%, I am not denying that.
What I was just wondering, not really questioning or arguing is if this was specifically tied to race and if so, did I miss something in the news pieces I had seen.
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You're not wrong about anything you said and you're right that they didn't say anything overtly racist as far as I know. But the problem is most racists aren't going to be overtly racist, many won't even know they are being racist at all.
The nurses probably don't even think they were being racist, they'll justify it to themselves that they see a lot of Indigenous people come in that are drunk or drug etc. and thought it was fair to assume this was one of those times. But stereotyping based on race is pretty clearly racism.
In this very thread, with absolutely no reason to suggest it, we had a poster bring up the possibility she may have been a prostitute with drug problems to hand-wave away the racism. But if she was a married white mother going to the hospital for chronic pain, do you think anyone would unprovoked bring up the chances of her being a prostitute?