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Originally Posted by AC
I think the issue is absolutely a combination of how Canadians collectively ignore their own racism (both past and present) towards Indigenous people, as well as the institutionalized atrocities that the Catholic Church has gotten away with.
How we continue to give reverence towards an organization that has such a disgusting history when it comes to abuses against vulnerable people is hard to stomach IMO.
That being said, it's not dissimilar to how we as Canadians ignore our own ugly history. It's no doubt a large part of why there seems to be an ingrained racist attitude towards the Indigenous here that is just accepted at large, while at the same time we like to look down upon the US for their own racist issues.
The cognitive dissonance required to ignore what we know has happened to the vulnerable (and continues to happen) is embarrassing.
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For more recent examples of atrocities that have been committed against our indigenous, there are the starlight tours.
The coles notes on them is that going back as early as the 1990s and even into the early 2000s, Saskatoon police officers would detain mostly intoxicated Indigenous males, take them out passed the city limits and leave them without their clothes in winter time.
I'm going off of memory here but I believe there was several incidents of this happening, resulting in death from hypothermia.
These things have happened during my lifetime which is mindblowing and full stop unacceptable.