If you are Indigenous Canadian like me … then you are free to rape, rob me and infect me with some communicable disease … and if you have time burn my home too.
I am the teensiest tiniest bit Indigenous Canadian, like maybe a toenail’s worth, because some of my ancestors are Habitants from Quebec from the days of Upper and Lower Canada. The rest of me is Irish and English, so yeah. I get it. I’m sorry if that’s worth anything.
The racism is SO bad here now. It always existed, but it’s right out in the open now because of immigration numbers and also efforts at indigenous reconciliation, in that racists think we don’t need to do that. It’s honestly getting scary.
Every Canadian, especially those with family that have been here for generations, more than likely has a tiny bit of Indigenous blood in them … it’s just a matter of numbers and circumstance. How do you expect your hundreds of ancestors to now mix with the local people if they’ve been here for 200-300 years?
Conversely, I always say I’m 100% Indigenous because both my parents were born in the wilderness of northern Ontario and as far as we’ve known, all their families go back thousands of years of Ojibway Indigenous blood … but there is still the possibility that there may have been one or two Europeans somewhere along those lines. We have one great grandfather who was called ‘wapi-George’ … basically ‘white George’ who apparently had very fair skin but his father was undetermined or never known. You can only guess what happened there … either it was passionate ill fated love, or just a child born from rape.
As far as the racism goes … I keep telling my friends that nothing has really changed. The only thing that is in the process of changing is the fact that white Europeans are in the last stages of holding onto their privileged status and that in the next few generations, they won’t be as important as they used to be … and that thought just absolutely terrifies them. They are so wound up about losing control that they can’t see that it absolutely doesn’t matter to everyone else … and that at the end, once they lose all importance, they won’t be any more important than anyone else.
I just didn’t happen to know about it until my aunt told me a third cousint did a family tree recently and identified a few distant relatives who are indigenous, so it was interesting for me is all. I knew I was partly Quebecois but I didn’t know about the Habitant part either.
It’s just really visible now. I looked at r/Canada a few times and I’m just horrified at what they say. I’m not saying it wasn’t present but they’re normalizing saying deport people.
r/Canada is not representative of Canada … r/Canada is representative of a fearful, ignorant, arrogant group of conservative nutjobs that may or may not be Canadian (or even human for that matter (meaning they are bots, not in saying that I deny a human opponents humanity))
Even years ago before I left Reddit /r/Canada was a right-wing racist shithole. I never went in there. It definitely does not represent the majority of Canadians.
I’m lost, and most likely just stupid. But, are you saying that if I am an Indigenous Canadian like yourself, then I can rape you? I.e. that implies that indigenous Canadians rape each other a lot?
If you are Indigenous Canadian like me … then you are free to rape
I don’t think that’s what you meant, but that’s what it sounds like.
If you’re white European
If you are Indigenous Canadian like me … then you are free to rape, rob me and infect me with some communicable disease … and if you have time burn my home too.
I am the teensiest tiniest bit Indigenous Canadian, like maybe a toenail’s worth, because some of my ancestors are Habitants from Quebec from the days of Upper and Lower Canada. The rest of me is Irish and English, so yeah. I get it. I’m sorry if that’s worth anything.
The racism is SO bad here now. It always existed, but it’s right out in the open now because of immigration numbers and also efforts at indigenous reconciliation, in that racists think we don’t need to do that. It’s honestly getting scary.
Every Canadian, especially those with family that have been here for generations, more than likely has a tiny bit of Indigenous blood in them … it’s just a matter of numbers and circumstance. How do you expect your hundreds of ancestors to now mix with the local people if they’ve been here for 200-300 years?
Conversely, I always say I’m 100% Indigenous because both my parents were born in the wilderness of northern Ontario and as far as we’ve known, all their families go back thousands of years of Ojibway Indigenous blood … but there is still the possibility that there may have been one or two Europeans somewhere along those lines. We have one great grandfather who was called ‘wapi-George’ … basically ‘white George’ who apparently had very fair skin but his father was undetermined or never known. You can only guess what happened there … either it was passionate ill fated love, or just a child born from rape.
As far as the racism goes … I keep telling my friends that nothing has really changed. The only thing that is in the process of changing is the fact that white Europeans are in the last stages of holding onto their privileged status and that in the next few generations, they won’t be as important as they used to be … and that thought just absolutely terrifies them. They are so wound up about losing control that they can’t see that it absolutely doesn’t matter to everyone else … and that at the end, once they lose all importance, they won’t be any more important than anyone else.
I just didn’t happen to know about it until my aunt told me a third cousint did a family tree recently and identified a few distant relatives who are indigenous, so it was interesting for me is all. I knew I was partly Quebecois but I didn’t know about the Habitant part either.
It’s just really visible now. I looked at r/Canada a few times and I’m just horrified at what they say. I’m not saying it wasn’t present but they’re normalizing saying deport people.
r/Canada is not representative of Canada … r/Canada is representative of a fearful, ignorant, arrogant group of conservative nutjobs that may or may not be Canadian (or even human for that matter (meaning they are bots, not in saying that I deny a human opponents humanity))
Even years ago before I left Reddit /r/Canada was a right-wing racist shithole. I never went in there. It definitely does not represent the majority of Canadians.
i’m mostly in it for infecting people and burning their homes. can you handle the rape and robbing yourself?
Typical colonist … now you get me to do that to myself too :(
oh no i don’t plan on staying, i just want to spread disease mostly. Call me Johnny Clappleseed
I’m lost, and most likely just stupid. But, are you saying that if I am an Indigenous Canadian like yourself, then I can rape you? I.e. that implies that indigenous Canadians rape each other a lot?
I don’t think that’s what you meant, but that’s what it sounds like.