Pic of the Day
Pic of the Day
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- 'Land Acknowledgement' is all the rage in Toronto now. Except Toronto was purchased, twice, not stolen, and from a tribe that pushed out the previous natives.i_monk
- ^ yupGnash
- < I'll take "shit that never happened" for $500, AlexGnash
- Aegard is a Green Party candidate and teacher in Thunder Bayi_monk
- ah, i assumed it was a student. Was just in Thunder Bay. odd townGnash
- North American natives were killing each other & stealing land long before Euros arrived, who just happened to have superior warriors (and immune systems).BustySaintClaire
- took the kids to see Annie muscal and before it began they gave thanks to the natives that owned the land originally that the old theatre was built on. Bizarre._niko
- The was an interesting article in woke canuck pub that talked about the hidden history of canadian slavery, but didn't go into details about itGnash
- well turns out that most of the slavery that was happening in canada (then not canada officially anyway) was within the aboriginal communities...Gnash
- ... not amongst the "colonizers"Gnash
- personally, I ll the idea of acknowledgements. I want Turkey to do the same thing with the greek territories they are currently colonizers on.Gnash
- anytime they find another archeological site the use the vague qualifiers like "ancient site discovered" or "ancient antiquities found" ...Gnash
- just say "greek" you fucks! stop erasing my heritage.Gnash
- /rantGnash
- Lol good point_niko
- native slavery:
https://www.youtube.…BustySaintClaire - Calling a white person "colonizer" is like calling a native "cannibal" – some distant ancestors/unrelated people of the same race did that, so you must too?i_monk
- annoyingly, the word, colonizer, is now in the woke main-stream vocabulary. as a gentler replacement they'll sometimes use the word, settler.Gnash
- the people who refer to themselves as colonizers are even more annoying, i thinkGnash
- My local NDP candidate referred to her settler heritage in her info card...i_monk