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Drew Hayden Taylor in the Globe for Canada Day
July 1, 2012 - 7:01am
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White people, here's your one-time Canada Day special: Native people apologize back!
Parental advisory warning: Do NOT read the comments under the article. Don't do it! You know you're tempted, but just don't do it.
Great article. How on earth did it get into the Globe? I guess they wanted some fresh meat for their white supremacist fanboys in the comments section.
Ack. Michelle, I never read the comments. This adds to my mental and physical well-being.
Hayden Taylor is one snarky cookie.
Most comments sections in newspapers are about as thoughtful and salient as scribblings on bathroom walls. I also don't bother.
This:
This is an observation with a more general application than the context here.
I couldn't resist. If any of you want to know why we have a Harper government read them. A really good way to get a sense of the fascist mindset of the G & M readers is to sort them by the highest score. All the high scores are racist drivel. One of the comments that had a 55 score and was thus the fifth highest was removed for being racist and had a 95 to 40 vote for thumbs up to racism.
The article was cheeky and I agree that the editors probably ran it to give the white boys and white boy wannabes some red meat on Canada Day.,
And the winner of the comment most hated by racists.
On Canada Day - by Kim Petersen
http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/07/on-canada-day/
"Should you love a country that was stolen from its Indigenous peoples?"
I applaud Taylor for expressing his frustration about our often absurd experiences as Indigenous people. I suspect that a read through the comments would be fruitless and futile. Racism's nothing less than a grotesque and monumental waste of our ability to think. Seriously... just a friggin waste.
absurb experiences is right.
pretty funny stuff. never heard of him before.
i found the comments pretty funny too. in a dfifferent way. but...the lack of factual knowlege and awareness is sad. and i found myself feeling sorry for their pathetic asses.
think those people keep themselves stupid so they don't have to face what they are. i mean "indian wars" were lost in Canada? only the most ignorant would believe those fabrications.
http://vimeo.com/44345317
National Aboriginal Day in Esquimalt