That’s it, just wanted to send it out there, hosers 🍁 🤗

      • DessertStorms@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        Shit like that just builds resentment.

        Only in people who would resent others for wanting equity and equality (in their country!!!), so you’re saying much more about yourself there than you are about me, while helping absolutely no one (apart from perhaps the people who published that article, because you do prove them right, so not entirely useless I suppose), so as is always the case with bigots, your stance seems to be projection all the way down.

    • ramplay@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      That article really just convinces me more that the cancel canada day movement is naive and misguided.

      Don’t take and sully our national day. Instead choose to enrich and improve it by making it more. There is room for both national pride on our Country and acknowledgement of past crimes.

      Respectfully, fuck off.

    • dkbg@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      I would tend to agree with everything in the article. Be careful about calling anyone who downvotes you a bigot though…sowing division is ultimately not helpful. Canada was and is built on a very ugly foundation and some people will have a lot of trouble accepting that, but the people need to unite as a collective to make it a better place, not polarise ourselves (i.e. like the US).

    • Yunlee@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Thank you for sharing, I found that to be a good resource. I also recently learned that July 1st 1923 is when the federal government passed the Chinese Exclusion Act (link below). https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/multiculturalism-anti-racism/chinese-legacy-bc/history/discrimination/federal-exclusion-act#:~:text=Passed on July 1%2C Dominion,longer permitted to enter Canada.

      I really wonder what life would be like here if Turtle Island wasn’t violently and systematically colonized.

      • DessertStorms@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Thank you for the link too, I had heard about the terrible treatment the Chinese were subject to in the US, but had not known (but not really surprised) that Canada was up to the same crap.

        And yeah, I wonder that too. I think the best we can do now is listen to those who survived it despite the continued attempts to erase their cultures, and learn from them.