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"Canada is not racist like the US!"
The myth of being less racist and other colonial fuckery
Canadians love wiping their hands clean from racism because they've adopted the faux talking point "I don't see color," even as we continue to pull dead bodies belonging to indigenous communities from the ground. Ninty- three burial sites with varying numbers of bodies, including baby bodies, have been identified between 2020 and 2022 alone—thousands of bodies. In January of this year, another sixty-six graves were uncovered at Joseph's Mission Residential School in BC, which only closed in 1981.
Colonialism is not the past, as some like to parrot. It is our present.
If you've only ever stood to gain from being part of an empire built off the backs of someone else's demise, claiming colonialism is the past is a highly privileged statement. One that dismisses the atrocities that continue to destroy people's lives. With all its massive resources, Canada has failed to provide clean water to its First Nations communities despite promises to end the long-standing abuses in 2015 — essentially a different form of genocide.
Racism didn't end because the empire said so. Not while they actively support colonialism in other parts of the world. Far too many Canadians are happy to jump on the reconciliation train without any…
