Canada’s genocide of its first nation’s people was gross.

It was a system of forced assimilation through child abduction, economic and nutritional deprivation, and political disenfranchisement.

But it happened that way because Canada DID see them as people.

It IS called genocide. When it’s called genocide it’s usually done with the clarification that it was a cultural genocide to distinguish it from the common conception of genocide (murder factory genocide).

I don’t think mass graves is the right term for the recent[ish] [re-]discovery of unmarked graves.

The discoveries document that the killings weren’t the result of the sort of misguided, racist, and overzealous military campaigns which are tragically common through colonial history. (And result in mass graves)

It’s not ‘those soldiers were racist and wrong, they shouldn’t have done that’. It’s not one commander or general that was overly brutal. It was sustained racist indifference, complicity, and callousness by settler Canada for 100 years! That is a much bigger indictment of Canada as an institution.

I also see memes about police shooting people’s dogs for no reason. Canada did that one first and much much worse. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Eskimo_Dog#:~:text=the Inuktitut language.-,RCMP dog killings,range from 1%2C200 to 20%2C000.

Yeah I often joke that natives are the black people of Canada, but it’s sad there’s still so much injustice for natives here in Canada. My best friend was killed by a truck driver while he was trying to ride his bike to work in the morning and they never even charged the guy, as far as I know he’s still driving around. Burying him was more painful than having a kidney stone and the fact that he won’t see justice because he’s native and cops don’t care is just salt on the wound.

Best part about lemmy, it sorts by controversial for you.

Russia and china are still doing genocide today…

US is still running a gulag system…

Never again expect a few more times of course…

Oh Canada…