Message from @xorgy
Discord ID: 504340117452750848
Looking to investigate if there is a way to grant sovereignty to the first nations of Canada, and set a final definition of the debts of newcomers, in a way which grants closure to both parties.
I think that if a plausible, well-supported plan of such were provided, it would be an enormous political asset.
20% of voters would easily be moved by a plausible closure of the open wound that is the treatment of first nations in Canada
(in my humble opinion)
almost no matter the monetary cost
You guys still feel bad about that?
we damn well should
We marched our natives into dust fields and we sleep just fine.
we won, sure, but the way our country treated these people is unconscionable
You mean them
like, think worse than a real genocide
What's worse than genocide?
if it were a genocide, and barely anyone survived, it'd be impossible to do anything except mourn it as a black chapter
Eternal slavery?
They're lucky they weren't all slaughtered in all honesty -- like most of the Spaniards did
_Instead_ we instituted a system of laws and "treaties" (which we violated at will) to systematically erode the foundations of these societies.
Ah, a partial genocide, because surivors can complain. Got you.
The goal was _ostensibly_ integration
but the job was botched so severely, it is hard to fathom.
and now we're left with the output of these policies.
More like alive to suffer
The Indian Act, the "residential school system" (sounds way nicer than it should), the hamfisted half measures and self-aggrandizing non-apologies
There are living ancestors to every one of these policies, who have suffered them in their lifetime.
meanwhile the federal government is concerned with its treatment of usurous strangers from the other side of the planet!
Many white Canadians were also in those residential schools which no one talks about
Well, that was negligible by comparison
but yes, those people are also owed a debt
Which is why these debts need to be enumerated, and closed.
haha ok, tell that to those that came from those schools
i still wana blow up the moon...
I meant by the numbers @Coochie coo
Shoot, man, we need the moon.
Obviously for the people there, they all had to experience it.
but if we blow it up we will have a lot of moons
I meant basically that it was not a common experience for whites
It does important gravity stuff.
wypipo
then we will have many moons doin that
i promise we wont float away
@Coochie coo That debt is payable to the survivors of the system, not ambiguously to first nations people.