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Originally Posted by Acajack
I dunno. A lot of Canadians - especially young ones - seem to conflate goings-on in the U.S. with the situation here at home. And always have - even back when I was young.
I mean... St. John's has a Black Lives Matter movement, does it not?
My kids have had always had lockdown codes in place and regular drills every year since they've been in elementary school.
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Interesting. We knew there were secret codes teachers could use over the PA in case there was an intruder, but there was never any mention of guns, and no drills either. Just fire and earthquake drills. The school gun violence thing was always very firmly in the "couldn't happen here" category when I was in school.
But I take your larger point. We did have anti-gun protests in Vancouver after Parkland, we had anti-Trump protests when he got elected, we have Black Lives Matter YVR (with a whopping 1,103 twitter followers). We've talked about this before, people do seem to have a harder time creating their own movements here so they latch onto others. We do have constant housing and gentrification protests in Vancouver though, and obviously pipelines too, so we do have stuff.
But I mean you'd think in our context a "Native Lives Matter" movement might exist in one way or another. But another part of me also thinks that we just have less problems, so it's hard to come up with other things to protest. I realized this as I was just searching for other examples to bring up and couldn't think of any.