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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
Tell me about the average middle class Canadian who didn't take to the streets and focused on things in their own life while the residential school system was going on. What does it say about them that they even had the vote that could have been used to change that system?
Do you think it's coincidental that the murder of George Floyd erupts in nationwide protests in the US at a time when there is massive unemployment, a pandemic, businesses shutting down and an general sense of getting left behind among the middle class? Would the same protests be erupting over racial injustices if main street was doing great and people were all busy with work?
Do your neighbors step outside each day and think about how the land where they live is theirs now as a result of the genocide of tens of millions of indigenous people, with survivors who actually were pushed into spaces that keep them out of sight and who still face discrimination? Do they spend each day fighting to correct this, or do they spend each day trying to improve the lives of their own family?
Do you think average people in China are just people trying to deal with paying mortgages, raising their kids well, saving for retirement and having social and family life, like your neighbors are, or are they immoral monsters?
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People for the most part just didn't know about the residential school issue I would assume. I had no idea about it until all the facts started coming out in the last 5-10 years.
But the major turning point in all of this is videos of these things happening. People are willing to give the police/government the benefit of the doubt on the facts they give them. But when they can see it for themselves - opinions change.