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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I'm shocked, I'm onboard with Singh's opposition day motion this morning. Stop fighting the lawsuits and human rights challenges, and pay the compensation.
Do better, don't release a fluffy document with a we're going to do stuff, but have no budget or dates or plans. STUFF is not enough. We've seen STUFF from this government in terms of the abuse of woman in the military, in terms of mecury poisoning in terms of clean drinking water.
Virtue signaling and pious apologies and pretend action plans that wait another 4 or 5 or 6 years ain't going to do it anymore.
Oh and on top of that, and this is from a lapsed Catholic, if the Pope doesn't roll out an apology and a action plan with compensation, look into removing the Churh's tax free status.
I haven't commented in this thread, because what am I going to say or argue? Its gross and disgusting, and its hard to believe that this was allowed to continue into the 70's. What's wrong with these people. Figure it out. Do something. Stop pointing at a paper and yelling "LOOK STUFF", and thinking that it means anything other then being a slap in the face
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This government is phenomenal at apologizing for stuff from the past, and terrible at actually implementing anything that might even make a small dent in reparations. They're obviously going to stick with what they're good at. I'm doing my little part that hopefully moves the needle in a microscopic way, but it would be nice if the leaders of this country would actually get off their asses and do something that isn't empty platitudes and void of anything substantial.
Personally, I find it really gross that we see such a strong reaction from so many people about re-naming monuments/buildings of people that have been proving to be involved in incredibly distasteful practices. It's such a small thing that negatively affects nobody, and actually provides benefit to those indigenous people that have asked for such action. It's such a no-brainer. Honestly, stop naming anything after anyone. Moral stances move so much over so little time, it won't be long before today's heroes will be condemned for however the moral needle moves. Just stop the cycle and stop naming things after people.
And finally, for the love of Pete, can the pages and pages of posts complaining about how people are arguing a point just stop. Rube is attracted to Cliff posts like a moth to a flame, Pepsi and Corsi have some weird thing for each other in basically every thread, can we just get over it and actually talk about the topic at hand that's incredibly important?
BTW, I appreciate the irony or hypocrisy of complaining about complaining about posters. I hope that by pointing it out myself I can avoid other posters from spending valuable discussion space pointing it out themselves.