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[-] notatoad@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ok, but give us some credit.

It was only last weekend we had a national holiday to celebrate how we treated the natives.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago

We crammed it into the calendar immediately before Thanksgiving, where we celebrate what we did to the natives.

[-] WhipTheLlama@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Thanksgiving, where we celebrate what we did to the natives.

Despite all the awful things that settlers have done to Aboriginals in Canada (and Native Americans in the USA), neither country's Thanksgiving is about that. Canada's Thanksgiving was originally a celebration of arrival in the New World. Over time, it became a harvest celebration.

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

I’ve got a shit ton of vegetables from my garden. I’m thankful for that and I’m going to share them with my friends.

[-] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

The arrival that led to the murder of the indigenous

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Be sure to also avoid any Oktoberfest celebrations this month! After all it lead to the murder of 12 million people!

Or is it possible to celebrate German culture without constantly bringing up horrible things Germans have done in history? Maybe it's possible that it wasn't beer and lederhosen that lead to genocide?

Could it also be that eating a turkey dinner with your family also doesn't lead to genocide?

Nah, internet says we should be angry about thanksgiving, so let's not do any critical thinking about it! BE ANGRY!!!!

[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

... Is that a celebration or a remembrance?

[-] notatoad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean, if you give people a long weekend they’re gonna celebrate.

I don’t know any white people who sat around in solemn reflection last weekend, but I know plenty who had an extra day of partying.

[-] Angry_Maple@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

You also have to love how it's a federal holiday in some places. People who work for the government got the day off, but there was practically nothing for the legit indigenous other than seeing people wearing orange shirts.

Idk, it's weird to me because the government played a massive role in what happened. It's odd that the provincial government gave themselves a long weekend over it.

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

I bought a medium mocha with orange sprinkles from Starbucks in solidarity.

[-] CoderKat@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Which half the provinces don't even recognize (as in, not a stat holiday). Not that it really matters that much. No problem has ever been solved by merely declaring a holiday and there's no shortage of shitty actions speaking louder than any holiday could.

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