• xenoclast@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Anon is either white or they come from the same area in the world as the immigrant family that they met.

    Canada is like high key racist now. Thanks MAGA, and your interest in Alberta resources

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      Hi. Am Canadian, am originally from Alberta, love everyone except fucking fascists, and can confirm Alberta is currently Canada’s stanky armpit and has been so for some time.

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          Fair. The armpittines is due to a small percentage of really weird people and their propensity to be simultaneously ignorant and outspoken. Sad that they affect policy and people’s lives.

          The place itself is breathtaking. Though in fairness, I’ve moved from there to Vancouver Island and it’s kind of been eclipsed by a few orders of magnitude.

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          Same in America unfortunately. I love camping but there are always confederate flags when driving to the state parks.

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            Eh, most of those are just idiots who tend to keep to themselves anyway. Just ignore it and consider filling up gas/electricity in one of the larger cities in the region.

            But yeah, plenty of rednecks throughout the rural areas…

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      We were racist before MAGA

      Thunder Bay has been a race war for decades. If a crime happens in the white part of town it’s likely the aboriginal people and if it happens in the aboriginal part of town it’s likely white people. I was nice to an aboriginal person once when I was there and he started crying then hugged me. You can guess which side the police actually investigate

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      racism exists everywhere, don’t blame the US for what already was there

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        I’m Canadian and can confirm Canada has always been racist gestures broadly at indigenous affairs and history of violence and assimilation.

        That being said Canadians are very nice and it’s only a smaller minority that is racist/ awful.

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          This is true of America, too. I think most people you are likely to meet in America sit between the “not at all racist” and “I mean yeah but it’s pretty low key and subconscious” end of the racism spectrum, it’s just that our more virulent racists are so often cops and presidential candidates.

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        Our southern racist neighbor embolden the local racists and make them feel more comfortable doing their racist recruitment in public where it’s more effective.

        Canada is always just an election cycle or two behind the popular American culture.

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          Indigenous women have been disappearing to the concern of absolutely nobody in the country for decades. If anything, the rise in fascist ideology in the US has made people more aware and critical of the racism that already existed in Canadian society

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            That’s true, it has emboldened both the bigots and progressives, but I feel like the bigots have turned that boldness into action and change.

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        4 months ago

        I mean… sure… but you can’t say they’re not making it worse and feeding into it for profit

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        don’t blame the US for what already was there

        Flips on American television

        Black people are committing crimes! Latinos are doing drugs! Arabs are terrorists! Chinese people are cheating on tests and stealing your jobs! Everyone in India is trying to scam you!!!

        Now back to our regularly scheduled movie about a cool White Nationalist who fights back by shooting everyone with a big gun!

        Damn, crazy how this was all here before Americans arrived.

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      Canada is like high key racist now.

      Canada has a good reputation on how not racist they are, but really all that racism is directed at Indigenous people. You’ll be fine for the most part as long as one doesn’t stay in the prairies for too long.