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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Ha! You are right. We should probably do nothing instead. You don't think Canadians knowing and acknowledging the atrocities committed against them instead a positive step to reconciliation? Because from every Indigenous story I have read, that's a big part of what they want. But hey, Cliff knows best. As always, we should do nothing.
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Where did I say we should do nothing? But the actions that will help Indigenous Canadians going forward cannot be performed behind a keyboard. Your mistake is thinking speeches, invocations of atonement, coloured ribbons, social media campaigns, and other public rituals are ‘doing something.’ They’re only doing something in the sense that praying for miners trapped in a cave-in is doing something - their purpose is to give solace, solidarity, and a feeling of collective agency to the people carrying out the rituals. Like religion does.