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Originally Posted by Reesonov
I mean, until you or I are sent to a boarding school explicitly designed to shame our culture and to remove us from its bad influence (where we are also subjected to systematic physical and sexual abuse), I'm not sure that our complaints about being "shamed" are going to fall on very sympathetic ears (in the circumstances.)
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We've had a tiny taste of it - our accents being "corrected" in schools, ridicule and laughter at the mention of where we're from, prejudice in housing, employment, law enforcement, etc. A very, very tiny taste.
And it was awful. It changed who I am. It's one of the reasons that made me a separatist. And it was, comparatively, such a tiny taste.
So I do have a lot of sympathy for reparations for indigenous people.