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Originally Posted by transplant99
Oh I get and understand the viotrol towards the CC. It's reprehensible what happened.
That has nothing to do with what Im saying though.
Just because we are mad and have hatred towards something or someone, does not mean we are allowed to light it/them on fire or deface their buildings.
Or if it is, then lets just have vigilante justice for everything and see how that turns out.
If we want true equality in this country, then lets treat everyone equally.
And has been mentioned, it would be really unfortunate if these criminal acts take away the support and awareness that is starting to happen for the indiginous members of this country. Something that is more than likely to happen if its not reigned in.
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At some point this might push to government buildings, I mean the GOC has an enormous role in this. Where the resentment could turn this into something more wide spread is that this government continues to talk about reconciliations and fails on almost every level. The government takes the pious position that the church needs to take action or apologize or whatever and its literally their bullet shield.
As resentment and anger grows, we don't know how these protests are going to expand or what's going to happen. What happens if a fire kills a person, do we shrug about that?
I am not a proponent of the church, what it did to my parents and my brother was gross and reprehensible and destroyed my mom and dad. They tried to forgive it in the name of their spirituallity, but it eventually drove them a way, as well as the continual priest scandals. I left the church because I saw it for what it really was. A massive money making industry, and I had no interest in pretending to save my soul in the service of something like that.
But there's a bit of sanity here. Burning churches down or pulling down and public defacement isn't going to elicit sympathy or a sense of we all need to work together in the long run.
This government needs to get its shyte together on the whole indigenous file and show some creativity and determination and do more then talking. The Church absolutely needs to come clean and put some real resources whether its cash or (And this is going to go over like a rock) manpower to help solve fundamental issues here.
But when you have protests that start like this, burning buildings vandalism etc and give it a almost atmosphere of permissiveness. "Its ok vent your spleen, its part of your right to hear your truth told". It can tend to spiral out of control quickly.
Also one of the arrests for a burning yesterday? that I saw on line was committed by non natives. That's messed up to me.