How many more times do I need to be subjected to asinine stupid comments about indigenous issues from people who think they mean well, but they’re actually as clueless as a door knob!

JFC this is pissing me off more than I thought it would!
Not that I expect everyone to read my threads, but I did write a very important one a couple days ago.

In it I said people would immediately move to solutions to avoid feeling difficult emotions about the discovery of a mass grave of indigenous children.
How characteristic of complicit humans to avoid feeling responsible for any part of this genocide. How ‘Good German’ of you!

I hoped for better self awareness. But nope. Same ole same old.
I also said the experience of horror and shock you feel as a settler is infinitesimal to the pain and anguish experienced by the indigenous community every day of their existence.

I knew this would happen.
People actually realizing that previous governments have given state approval for genocide can’t handle the truth.

I’m watching people squirm in discomfort and move to immediately offer simplistic solutions and poorly thought out virtue signals to indicate their absolution.
Pointing fingers at the current government.

Incidentally, the ONLY federal government that has made a commitment to work with First Nations, Métis, Inuit and non status FN to develop culturally appropriate, COMMUNITY led interventions.
How exactly do you think the mass grave in Kamloops was discovered? Using a grant provided by the current govt. It took a few years to find the gravesite.

Other communities are at different emotional stages regarding looking. Finding a mass grave is traumatic.
So a community has to be emotionally ready to search and be prepared to deal with the grief when the graves are found.

But let’s push FN communities to search & find their missing and disappeared children.

Maybe the community should decide themselves now funding is available?
Do you honestly think you know better than the people who have lived this trauma their entire life?

How fricking egocentric and condescending can you BE trying to push for immediate action? I’m gobsmacked how oblivious virtue signallers are being right now.
And the utter disrespect to use this discovery as a political weapon is unforgivable in my eyes. It disgusts me. How do you rationalize using people’s sorrow and grief to win political support?

How dare you misappropriate indigenous people’s experience for political gain!
It’s morbid and profoundly insensitive to people who are reeling in shock and devastation at what happened to their children.

For settlers to think they know what’s best for indigenous people is another massive insult & racist!

How dare you not recognize your hubris.
People need compassion, not to be told what they need, how they should vote for a different party to take over governance and be subjected to a bunch of disinformation about legal issues pundits clearly do not understand and hope others won’t either.
Using this situation to polarize fellow progressives into entrenched indignation is hardly the response required from the settler community.

I’ll be clear.

Shut up, sit down and listen to what people need. This isn’t your issue. You’re the perpetrator, not the victim.
That some indigenous people are using this as political fodder is also reprehensible.

The settlers assuming those demanding immediate action speak for everybody show how little they understand indigenous issues & people.
But it obviously demonstrates how political opportunism isn’t limited to settlers.

There are people within the indigenous community that like power or attention as much as any settler.

It’s disappointing, but expected since our culture has been literally brought to its knees.
People with political agendas are found in every culture. That includes indigenous cultures.

The fact some settlers treat indigenous people like some panoramic single minded hoard of people with little to no diversity is about as racially biased as it can get.
That some indigenous people willingly and openly use other indigenous people’s pain to make political gains is ghoulish and shameful.

Thousands are struggling emotionally right now. And people they thought would understand are using their pain for political manoeuvring.
That’s an extra stab in the back.

There’s a reason I can’t bring myself to trust NDP. I knew Singh, his MPs & pundits would exploit the pain of people who lost children, grandchildren, siblings & friends & are now reeling in grief knowing they’re likely buried in a mass grave.
Discarded like a diseased herd of culled barn animals.

Let that sink in. This is a mass grave. Not a grave yard. Not neat rows of evenly spaced plots with markers denoting dignity and respect for the deceased.

A mass grave. Just like was done in Eastern Europe to the Jews.
It’s a mass grave. Meaning those children suffered and were discarded without dignity, without regard for their humanity.

Not all at once over a few short years. No, these were over 150 years, many from disease, abuse, neglect and suicide.
The Jewish community is coping with the Holocaust. They receive acknowledgement for the persecution of their community.

That’s all that’s needed at this moment. Acknowledgement.

Not meaningless attempts to exculpate yourself.
Indigenous people already know the truth. It’s settlers that need to process it.
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6 Jun
I want to scream. Are you happy far left? You pissed me off mightily today.

And the public wonders why indigenous people don’t trust white people. Why we don’t trust people who tell us our issues deserve airtime and financial support too.

I’m signing off tonight. Enraged.
It’s insulting people believe I’m being too harsh when I call out disinformation. I’m bullying. Are you effing kidding me?!?

I’m bullying because I don’t candy coat criticism of the abuse of indigenous issues for political gain.

Don’t follow me if you expect candy coating.
I’m not here trying to win friends. I’m not campaigning for any party.

I’m advocating that the Canadian public actually take responsibility for the 500 years of shit and abuse thrown at the indigenous peoples of Canada.

I’m not going to make it easy for you.
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5 Jun
She GETS IT!

Listen to this woman. Don’t listen to people who demand everything get fixed by next week. Listen to the people who have been wronged for generations.

Acknowledge their pain.

Acknowledge their humanity.

Acknowledge their anger.

Acknowledge their resentment.
That’s it. That’s your responsibility.

Listen.

It’s not time for you to be heard. It’s not time for you to virtue signal. It’s not time for you to get comfort for your shock and dismay.

It’s our time. We’re the ones almost wiped out from policies meant to exterminate us.
By settlers.

Settlers who profited from our pain. Profited from our deaths. Profited from our suffering.

This isn’t your pain. It’s ours. You listen. We get to talk now.
Read 10 tweets
5 Jun
I realize I am one person. I can not change the world by myself.

But I can cast a stone in the water, hoping others cast theirs and we make a significant ripple.

I knew what is happening would happen. I hate it all the same.
I’m angry. Very angry to watch politicians use profound grief that doesn’t belong to them for political gain.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1400962…
I wrote very angry and critical threads.

Singh’s behaviour is wounding my community and all of Canada.

I can’t sit by and watch silently.

But I can’t be positive and humbly critical.

Nope. I’m enraged by betrayal. I expect this from cons.
Read 4 tweets
4 Jun
Mr. Singh’s intentional attempt to divide progressives into two factions: those who demand immediate action, and those who understand centuries of persecution will take time and mutual cooperation between governments and communities to address is reprehensible.
I’m not a lawyer. But I know enough of them and have independently studied legal issues to know what Mr. Singh is requesting of the federal government, by withdrawing court cases related to child welfare and residential school compensation is anti-democratic and dangerous.
Perhaps some lawyers could opine to confirm these assertions I’m making. Instead of permitting this charlatan from ripping apart Canadian democratic norms and conventions.
Read 26 tweets
3 Jun
I see so many people using the word hypocrisy to describe this behaviour.

It’s not hypocrisy. They honestly believe the rules do not apply to them.

These are people who believe they write the rules, not live by the rules, because they’re at the top of the hierarchy.
Using words like hypocrisy is a reflection of your values, not theirs.

They don’t believe your opinion matters. Therefore hypocrisy is an empty moral value.

Why people continue to use is frustrating.
To respond to the slight of being called a hypocrite, you first must possess some level of a sense of social cohesion and egalitarianism. A belief that “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander” mentality.

UCP members don’t have that characteristic.
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2 Jun
How many people are familiar with the following truth?

“Those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it.” ~ Edmund Burke
Most people assume Burke was referencing maintaining awareness of history to avoid sliding into autocracy.

He wasn’t. He was referencing the French Revolution. Where the common folk deposed the monarchy & noble classes. And redistributed wealth and resources more equitably.
In theory anyway (check out Robespierre).

Burke was a wealthy aristocrat. Afraid of losing his status, property and comfortable lifestyle.

And he was correct. When you don’t pay attention to current events & seek to understand them in contexts with past events, you’re doomed.
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