To all the Canadians tweeting about how this could never happen in Canada, don& #39;t forget that as recently as 2018 Indigenous women in Saskatchewan were reporting coerced sterilization: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/forced-sterilization-lawsuit-could-expand-1.5102981">https://www.cbc.ca/news/cana... https://twitter.com/brooklynmarie/status/1305553553625243648">https://twitter.com/brooklynm...

And while we& #39;re on the topic of "it could never happen here"...

On family separation at America& #39;s southern border: https://www.splcenter.org/news/2020/06/17/family-separation-under-trump-administration-timeline

More">https://www.splcenter.org/news/2020... Indigenous children are currently in the custody of child services in Canada than at the height of the Sixties Scoop, with newborns often removed from parents in hospital. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/a-special-edition-of-the-current-for-january-25-2018-1.4503172/the-millennium-scoop-indigenous-youth-say-care-system-repeats-horrors-of-the-past-1.4503179">https://www.cbc.ca/radio/the...

On the disproportionate killing of Black people by American police agencies:
https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ 

16%">https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/">... of people killed by Canadian police in the last 20 yrs are Indigenous (just ~4% of population). In some places (like Winnipeg), that shoots up to 63% https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/fatalpoliceencounters/">https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/fatalpoli...

so stfu with your "this could never happen here" takes.

It *is* happening here.

Right now.

You& #39;re just not paying attention.