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Originally Posted by NotToScale
What part of his statement was racist? He said nothing about any groups being inferior. Don't get too woke now, that's a hole that is hard to crawl out of.
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Come on man, sure he sidesteps anything overtly racist but it's so thinly veiled. I'm shocked you think I'm "too woke" for suggesting that "aboriginals are just a bunch of gang members" is racist
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Originally Posted by Bluenote
He forgets to always mention that the 3 biggest gangs in this city and province are Aboriginal. And most of the 40 murders so far are gang related and Aboriginal.
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- Aboriginals are murderous gang members. Not racist. Got it. Look, sure we could say something like the parents of these kids need to do better or whatever, that's not untrue. But these conditions replicate themselves anywhere there's systemic poverty, ie black gangs in the southern US. It's not something unique to natives in MB but he seems to think it's just because NATIVES = BAD. I've never heard of a place where all the street gangs are white kids from rich families so you pointing out that our gangs also consist of our poorest people is kinda pointless
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Originally Posted by Bluenote
Sorry I'm sick and tired of protests for money when we all should be protesting about these gangs and the crime rate. And point the finger directly where it belongs.
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- Protests for money? ok... I'll admit some of the professional activists out there are self-interested (ie Parker wetlands/roostertown). But there are about 1000 legitimate things to protest, from reserve housing conditions to the state of our child welfare system etc. Kids ending up bouncing around 30 foster homes and then you suggest it's their own fault when they end up in a gang.... you can't just dismiss anybody you don't agree with as having some sinister motives
- protesting the gangs? You think the Indian Posse is gonna disband because you protested them? If you mean calling for action to do something about the conditions causing these social issues then yeah, that's what the protesters you hate so much are doing. They're also the same people rolling their sleeves up and working with Bear Clan or other community groups to actually do something about it, which I suspect Bluenote is not... If you actually went and spent a day with any organization doing that work in our inner city you'd see the boots on the ground doing that work are mostly indigenous people, they're already the ones taking the most ownership of this
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Originally Posted by Bluenote
But he will as usual say it was our fault for the gangs.
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Who's fault is it then? Again I suspect he'd say "the parents" or some shit. And again I'd point to how these problems exist anywhere the same socioeconomic problems do. Addictions, poverty & poor mental health creates fucked-up people who, unsurprisingly, are bad parents who create even more fucked up people, and that's true whether we're talking about indigenous in Canada or Roma in Europe or blacks in the US or whoever. You must treat the cause and not just the symptom. And those parents can't get their shit together without some kind of addictions and mental health support which is terribly inadequate in our country.
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Originally Posted by Bluenote
He will reply with his typical lengthy blah blah blah reply. Just wait. Then he will pull the racist card etc.
It's time to take Winnipeg back!!!!
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- your entire post is just attacking indigenous people and calling them criminals. And this "race card" line is getting so old - it's just become a reflex to throw it out there anytime the issue comes up and preemptively shut down the discussion. You're not allowed to bring the issue up anymore without immediately being accused of playing the so-called "race card." People like Bluenote just want the issue dropped - you either leave it alone and pretend racial inequality is just a thing of the past or you're playing some "card." People who actually live with that shit on a daily basis can't just ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist anymore.