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What are they in this case? And I guess your comment is true as long as you ignore the incarceration rates for First Nations. Which is coincidentally something

• dragonwriter 4y ago
  > And I guess your comment is true as long as you ignore the incarceration rates for First Nations. Which is coincidentally something we canadians really like to do whenever it's time to feel smug about our southern neighbors. The US is at least as bad, absolutely and even relative to the White population, with Native Americans, though it gets less attention because Native Americans get less attention in US politics than First Nations do in Canada, and because it's further masked by the attention to both the general runaway incarceration in the US and the racial impact on Blacks of unequal incarceration.
  • mardifoufs 4y ago
    That might be all true but saying "what about the US! they are even worse" is irrelevant to the fact that it also happens in Canada. While GP was saying that it doesn't happen here because we're not like those stupid Americans. Though I'd still heavily dispute your claim. Native Americans in the US have much stronger treaty rights, much more autonomy and while they still face tons of discrimination, IME its very hard to beat Canada in that regard. In any case, between the Highway of tears and the fact that some reservations don't even have access to water in the north... comparing ourselves with other countries just comes off as pointless deflection.
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