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Originally Posted by combustiblefuel
My family home in Netherlands 13 people were there that night when nazi troopers busted in and ony 3 people left alive. Should you be allowed to do anything dutch?
Find a culture that has never been oppreseed. If you do things respectfully and tastefully to pay homage to that culture what's the ####ing problem? Unless your a rasist that doesn't want that. We live in Canada and are taught to embrace and integrate other cultures into your own life . How do you do that when its considered rasist to do what people want?
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Well in this comparison it would have to be Nazi Germany using Dutch culture. I'm not comparing Canada to Nazi Germany, but Canada is the oppressor. So people going a step farther to make sure they do things on terms First Nations people appreciate is good. Would I want Dutch people to be comfortable if I'm benefitting from their culture? Yes. If I had something Dutch (to use an obvious one, clogs) and I had to write or speak about them, I wouldn't sort of vaguely say "here's a somewhat central European shoe thing", which is basically what happened. I'm from an oppressed European group too and don't think the argument that white people have never been oppressed is logical or accurate. If oppressed people don't like something and there's a relatively simple way to do things better, I know where I'll stand. And again, I don't think Holtby is getting raked over the coals here. If there's an outsized reaction, like people pushing to have him "cancelled" or lose his career, after he's taken steps to go about things in a better way, then that it uncalled for.