the thing is, if you pay reconciliations because of the schools then you have to do it for all.... and why only the natives? ... You think the chiefs are really going to want to close this all once and for all? I highly doubt it, hence why this has been going on for so long...

all the moons!

What did this school system do?

feed us bad food

The residential schools for natives

It's true, victimization is a position of strength. They wouldn't want to lose it.

@Coochie coo I explicitly said not only for the natives.

Is this about reparations of some form?

@Undead Mockingbird not retroactive, the people who experienced the policy are still alive.

@Undead Mockingbird well, some of them at least.

Whenever people talk about some form of reparation, I have the urge to remind them that we spend about $1 trillion on welfare/social services each year.

any one have little yellow minions to help me blow up the moon?

@Coochie coo it is part of a set of debts of undue pain and tragedy though, and there are other debts payable to natives alone.

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Anyone who is making any kind of hyperbolic claim through some kind of victimhood that has no direct legal basis should keep that in mind.

Well, I recommend you read up on this shit

We have paid reparations 10x over. The American citizenship is one of the most valuable things in the world.

and ask yourself if there should be a legal basis for this debt

Anyone who is alive and US citizen today should be grateful. #NotSorry

I'm not talking about the U.S.

the U.S. has its own problems, I'm talking about Canada

True, but they're talking about Canada.

Pretty much the same for Canada.

The silver medal of the America's.

Canada has... a uniquely ugly history of policies on this matter.

some of these policies are just flat-out bizarre

U.S. policies have tended to be more straightforward, and represent greed more than hatred

At least you don't have a famous march with the word Tears in the name.

Reparations for residential schools seem pretty legit tbh, those were fucked

Probably. But if it is about the balance of historic victimhood and benefit, anyone who is alive today in North America is a big winner.

In Canada, the same is not true, is what I'm saying.

But we also shouldn't have enshrined the Res'

You're welcome, black population.

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In Canada, there are living people who suffered these genuine systematic indignities.

BTW, I am still waiting for Italians to pay me reparations.

My family is from an area of Germany that had been occupied by the Roman Empire.

It's not like it was that far back either

For Canada

It's in living memory

I demand reparations for the Treaty of Trianon.