Pet peeves that should be pet peeves

[XylathaneGTR]

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OK, I get there's this push for "de-colonization" or whatever and orgs are renaming mountains and shit back to their Indigenous names. Sure, meh.
But pushing for people to stop using "North America" and instead refer to it as "Turtle Island" to reflect a Native creation myth is without a doubt one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. I was chatting with a friend who attended an academic conference a while back and all the presenters/lecturers were instructed to use "Turtle Island" instead of NA to "remind everyone that the conference is taking place on stolen Native lands". I've seen it start to crop up elsewhere and it just annoys the hell out of me for some reason.

Seeing "settler" show up in dialogue as a title or description of a non-native person is just a bit too much for me.
I also feel like every acknowledgement these days has to top the last one. "I'm so grateful and honoured to join you from Treaty 7 lands, the home of the Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, Stoney-Nakoda, and Tsuutina. To learn from the stewards of these lands, who nurtured these lands for thousands of years before I settled here."

This is getting over the top.

[Hallowed_point]

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"I'm so grateful and honoured to join you from Treaty 7 lands, the home of the Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, Stoney-Nakoda, and Tsuutina. To learn from the stewards of these lands, who nurtured these lands for thousands of years before I settled here."

This is getting over the top.

Did you pull that quote from a Spendshi speech? I swear I've heard him recite that word for word at more than one event. Makes my skin crawl as well, just sounds so pandering and contrived.

[ThePenIsMightier]

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Seeing "settler" show up in dialogue as a title or description of a non-native person is just a bit too much for me.
I also feel like every acknowledgement these days has to top the last one. "I'm so grateful and honoured to join you from Treaty 7 lands, the home of the Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, Stoney-Nakoda, and Tsuutina. To learn from the stewards of these lands, who nurtured these lands for thousands of years before I settled here."

This is getting over the top.

Like I've said before, we need Canadians who aren't "white" to take a stand against this. I didn't do anything wrong and no one from my family in the last 120+ years in Canada did, either. But... I'm not allowed to say that because I'm a similar skin colour to some sort of oppressor from some other ethnic group that were here decades before us.

Don't accept vicarious guilt. If you're not white, stand up and say "Pound sand! My family had nothing to do with any of this! We arrived here with very little and busted our ass for what we have today without trampling on anyone else. I'm accountable for my own actions and that's where it ends. I won't apologize for something I didn't do."

[Hallowed_point]

^my wife is latin american and she said basically what you said when her teacher went off on the usual speech about white Canadian guilt and native americans. It didn't go over so well with woke teacher dude, but I thought good for her for addressing the elephant in the room. I've yet to hear of Spain reimbursing Mexico or Colombia for past conquests. Such a bizarre concept all around.

[Buster]

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Like I've said before, we need Canadians who aren't "white" to take a stand against this. I didn't do anything wrong and no one from my family in the last 120+ years in Canada did, either. But... I'm not allowed to say that because I'm a similar skin colour to some sort of oppressor from some other ethnic group that were here decades before us.

Don't accept vicarious guilt. If you're not white, stand up and say "Pound sand! My family had nothing to do with any of this! We arrived here with very little and busted our ass for what we have today without trampling on anyone else. I'm accountable for my own actions and that's where it ends. I won't apologize for something I didn't do."

The sins of the father has become a very Canadian value.

Judging people and creating policy and segregation based on skin color has also become a very Canadian thing.

[lilmira]

according to the census, there is officially just one group of white people. deal with it

[ThePenIsMightier]

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according to the census, there is officially just one group of white people. deal with it

True. I always forget what a cohesive and well-unified team "we" are.
Czech's & Slovak's, Serb's & Croat's. Togethers forevers.

[Darell_n]

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True. I always forget what a cohesive and well-unified team "we" are.
Czech's & Slovak's, Serb's & Croat's. Togethers forevers.

What is the official government HTML colour code to give me membership to ‘we’. I’m sure I’m darker than a lot of natives during the summer.

[killramos]

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True. I always forget what a cohesive and well-unified team "we" are.
Czech's & Slovak's, Serb's & Croat's. Togethers forevers.

My favourite is when “latinos” aren’t white.

[suntan]

It's latin-x you cro-mag.

[XylathaneGTR]

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Did you pull that quote from a Spendshi speech? I swear I've heard him recite that word for word at more than one event. Makes my skin crawl as well, just sounds so pandering and contrived.

Paraphrasing from an acknowledgement about a month ago during a teams meeting... #corporatewoke yo
And sorry, PenisMightier - i'm as white as they come.

[dirtsniffer]

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Like I've said before, we need Canadians who aren't "white" to take a stand against this. I didn't do anything wrong and no one from my family in the last 120+ years in Canada did, either. But... I'm not allowed to say that because I'm a similar skin colour to some sort of oppressor from some other ethnic group that were here decades before us.

Don't accept vicarious guilt. If you're not white, stand up and say "Pound sand! My family had nothing to do with any of this! We arrived here with very little and busted our ass for what we have today without trampling on anyone else. I'm accountable for my own actions and that's where it ends. I won't apologize for something I didn't do."

Ask this prof from Lebanon how that worked out.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex...ives-of-colour

[ThePenIsMightier]

That terrible commercial with the functionally retarded baseball players all saying "Khey Zpôrtszkñëkt!"

[Maxx Mazda]

People that use the word "heighth."

ITS NOT A WORD!!!

[ThePenIsMightier]

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People that use the word "heighth."

ITS NOT A WORD!!!

Oh, Man - that's a good one. That's a key IQ indicator, right there!

[adam c]

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People that use the word "heighth."

ITS NOT A WORD!!!

I've never seen or heard anyone say this

[suntan]

Wireless keyboards. I've given up on them.

[ExtraSlow]

Is it a Saskie thing?

I know a guy who said "hain" instead of "hang, although it's possible he had a speech impediment.

[Buster]

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Wireless keyboards. I've given up on them.

Yes

[JRSC00LUDE]

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