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17 Jul 2020, 12:55 pm
How can we get them to take pride in winning the war on the coronavirus?
Perhaps messaging needs to be packaged in military terms to get people to pay attention and buy into it.
Like maybe using the US army’s marketing tagline “Army of One,” and their policy of “No man left behind,” politicians could get Americans to start caring about one another & public health Just Enough to work together to defeat this pandemic regardless of partisan politics, race, culture or creed. Don’t work together like polite Canadians; work together like soldiers who will let nothing stop them from winning and being proud of it!!
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18 Jul 2020, 12:09 am
You'll never hear me complain about celebrating the brave men who put Custer in the dirt.
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You'll never hear me complain about celebrating the brave men who put Custer in the dirt.
I saw a bumper sticker that said,“ Custer had it coming.”
So true.
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18 Jul 2020, 2:13 pm
They’re pretty proud of the whole European settlers arriving and murdering nearly 100,000,000 Indigenous people. They celebrate it every year by eating a big deep fried turkey dinner and watching American football on TV.
I’ve never had deep fried turkey and I don’t watch football.
And you know Canada has a dismal record on the rights of the Native people.
This is true. But at least where I live, people are acknowledging this more and more and siding with Indigenous peoples and protestors about both historical wrongs and present day failures of government. I think Indigenous people’s likely have the most support of the general population here on the West Coast out of all of Canada, because of our mutual cultural interests in environmental conservation.. and the least support in the hyper racist prairie provinces where resource extraction reigns supreme. We still have a long way to go in Canada, but at least we are learning, growing, and changing instead of pretending it isn’t a problem like our government likes to do - ie ignoring all the nations without access to clean drinking water.
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18 Jul 2020, 2:55 pm
You mean financial compensation for past wrongs?
Some are right now. My brother-in-law literally just received a cheque sometime in the last few weeks for something like $20,000.00 CDN for being a survivor of the 60’s scoop - even though he wasn’t born until ~1980/81; he and his siblings lives were dramatically altered by the affects that the residential school system had on his parents’ generation, which resulted in the kids bouncing around in foster homes etc.
So, yeah, to some extent for some atrocities reparations are in fact being paid now.
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