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To all the Canadians tweeting about how this could never happen in Canada, don'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://twitter.com/brooklynmarie/status/1305553553625243648
And while we're on the topic of "it could never happen here"...
On family separation at America's southern border: https://www.splcenter.org/news/2020/06/17/family-separation-under-trump-administration-timeline
More 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
More 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
On the disproportionate killing of Black people by American police agencies:
https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
16% 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://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
16% 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/
so stfu with your "this could never happen here" takes.
It *is* happening here.
Right now.
You're just not paying attention.
It *is* happening here.
Right now.
You're just not paying attention.
