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My grandfather was a soldier in World War II. My family has a history of military service.
The normalization of racial supremacy, the encouragement of it by some political leaders as a path to power, isn’t just abhorrent, it is a threat to our peace & to our communities.
#yegcc
The normalization of racial supremacy, the encouragement of it by some political leaders as a path to power, isn’t just abhorrent, it is a threat to our peace & to our communities.
#yegcc
As we mark the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide let me say:
- how easy it is to stoke economic fear and pair it with racial fear. We have history to prove it. We know that road.
- Canada is not immune. We must always be on guard for the small wedge that opens the door.
- how easy it is to stoke economic fear and pair it with racial fear. We have history to prove it. We know that road.
- Canada is not immune. We must always be on guard for the small wedge that opens the door.
Atrocity may explode like a powder keg, but it’s never the big event that is the cause, that’s just the effect.
Like the frog in the pot of increasingly heating water, it’s the prejudices, hate & fear that are allowed to spread & given platforms that lead to the boiling point.
Like the frog in the pot of increasingly heating water, it’s the prejudices, hate & fear that are allowed to spread & given platforms that lead to the boiling point.
This mounting danger is not always apparent to folks who are not under immediate threat.
But in WWII it was the German Jews, the LGBTQ community, the non-aryan, those with some form of disability who could feel it coming.
Then they were slaughtered.
But in WWII it was the German Jews, the LGBTQ community, the non-aryan, those with some form of disability who could feel it coming.
Then they were slaughtered.
So as we remember the horror of Rwanda, let us also acknowledge that it’s a pattern that repeats when we stop seeing each other as human.
When we demonize & allow ‘leaders’ to press on that hate & that fear, when they conflate it with global & economic worry - then we all lose.
When we demonize & allow ‘leaders’ to press on that hate & that fear, when they conflate it with global & economic worry - then we all lose.
Almost every family has a story of survival or of fighting against hate.
Remember these stories.
They’re never far from us.
They are always closer than we think.
Remember these stories.
They’re never far from us.
They are always closer than we think.
