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Canadian schools are pure trash. The only people surprised by all of this are as always Canadians. They treated left handed people pretty shitty too but lucki
by scruffyherder 5y ago
Canadian schools are pure trash. The only people surprised by all of this are as always Canadians.
They treated left handed people pretty shitty too but luckily they didn’t get the chance to send us to concentration camps to die.
I’m definitely never sending my kids to Canada, I’ll send them to Beijing way before that.
- hluska 5y agoBeing left handed and cultural genocide have absolutely nothing in common.
- scruffyherder 5y agoThey do, it’s how the schools are designed to encourage bullying and bearings from staff and teachers. It was not one school or one teacher. Of course Canadians just want to pretend it was just one group they screwed with, I’m just simply pointing out that it was NOT an isolated thing that Canadian schools are pure trash.
- allannienhuis 5y agoI don't believe that ensuring children conformed to the current cultural norm was or is unique to Canadian schools. My mother was left-handed and was forced to write, etc with her right hand by her Dutch teachers, as were all other lefties. Force included bloody knuckles from rulers wielded by teachers and other corporal punishments. I've heard similar stories from other lefties from other countries. Schools were (are?) about teaching children to confirm as much as teaching them reading and math, etc - I think that was a pretty universal thing in previous generations. Just because your experience was in Canada doesn't mean there was anything specifically Canadian about it.
- scruffyherder 5y agoAlso left handed is culture, but some conformist righty wouldn’t understand so instead we had it beaten out of us .
- hluska 5y agoYou're equating being a left handed person to being stolen from your parents, beaten and raped? That is one of the most disrespectful, disgusting things that I have ever read on this website. You need to seriously read up on history and learn a bit before you ever say that to anyone again. That is complete and utter racist garbage.
- dang 5y agoPlease don't respond to bad comment with a worse one, nor attack other users personally regardless of how wrong they are or you feel they are. All of that just makes the thread even worse. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Note this one: "Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead." a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls
- hluska 5y agoI'm sorry Dan - I was in a really bad spot after I saw the press conference. I know the Chief of the Cowessess First Nation. It's no excuse but I was in an awful awful place. I'm sorry.
- ghthor 5y agoYes, Canada has really been showing it's TRUE colors with how the government is handling covid. Fascism and propaganda are close to heart. I feel for all the mennonite communities and pray for them every day.