It's truly heinous to see the rise of this far right, anti-Indigenous rhetoric in British Columbia. It shouldn't need to be said, but you can obviously be proud of Canada without pretending that residential schools, forced sterilization, displacement, and other horrors were okay.
This like losing a high school sporting event, dropping down to elementary and winning 1st place and having your mom post how great you are on Facebook.
Simone Biles took a break and then returned to win gold medals. Riley Gaines lost to 4 other women and then quit swimming forever. She literally quit when things got hard.
i hate online leftism because no matter how much a person in power does to make the world better there is always someone who thinks its not enough and therefore we should keep praying and wishing for the Perfect Leader like haven’t we lost enough
Feb. 3, 1861:
Mohawk activist and veteran Frederick Loft was born at the Six Nations Reserve. He went on to become not only a First World War veteran, but one of the most important First Nations activists of the 20th century.
Learn more 👇
https://t.co/3RF99Idrvx
Louis Riel is executed by the state the next week, on November 16, 1885 - lest you think the building of the CPR is not connected to Canada’s history of settler capitalism. Too often we see these events (nation building and Indigenous resistance) as isolated, not interconnected.
🧵I once heard a plus-sized creator say she knows her friends love her, but she's also aware that one of their biggest fears is looking like her and that really stuck with me