David Brown, who lives with his wife near the disputed area, testified in court in November 2009 that he was required to carry a native-issued passport and needed approval from the protesters to enter his own house. He also claimed that after arriving "after curfew" one day, he was denied entry and jailed by the OPP when he caused trouble by ignoring the natives.

chickeon posted:

as far as i can tell our racism is 100% identical to that found in the US, aside from the anti-muslim stuff in quebec which is also 100% identical to that in france

this

alternate answer: what racism, we don't have any racism in canada. you must expect that to be everywhere because you're american. oh, you.

discipline posted:

as someone from a cross-burning town, I'm a little shocked by the racism I've encountered in the great white north, namely that people seem to be pretty non-confrontational about it. I called some rando a nazi on the street in toronto a nazi to not even a whimper of protest and spent about 10 minutes listening to some weird headshop buy in montreal spew the most polite and level headed ignorant noxious bullshit about "pro-muslim protesters" (what the fuck is this btw)

it's hard to tell what sort of racism you're referring to here. what did the nazi rando say? what was the quebec guy's argument about pro-muslim protesters?

solzhesnitchin posted:

discipline posted:

well yeah I know there are racists here clearly, but are they violent? do they have a consistent history of violence outside what I mentioned?

yes we have police in canada

on a related note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia_Affair

discipline posted:

well yeah I know there are racists here clearly, but are they violent? do they have a consistent history of violence outside what I mentioned?

yeah. most of it is directed at indigenous populations, though islamophobic beatings and campaigns of intimidation are ramping up same as everywhere else. organized violence is also really common against the asian communities in larger western canadian cities, i don't know if that is mirrored out east but wouldn't be surprised. and sex work is insanely dangerous in canada (even compared to other places!) johns are pretty much organized serial killers, the overwhelming majority of victims indigenous.

it generally doesn't receive much attention in the media or public consciousness, combination of a national narrative of supposed tolerance and being "better than the states" alongside with it being socially acceptable to be openly racist against indigenous people in most circles. its not uncommon at all for white canadians to wring their hands in liberal compassion at how awful those darn americans treat black people (completely blind to the violence the black community in canada faces) then turn around in the same breath and tell you that "those fucking indians deserve everything that happens to them."

the campaign for justice for canada's missing and murdered indigenous women gets attention and respect now but that's after years and years of struggle against public contempt, not to mention the way federal government as a matter of long standing policy treats even the most moderate indigenous solidarity organizations as terrorist threats to national security, with all the surveillance, harassment, intimidation and violence that entails.

so when someone hears a news story about how a couple skinheads beat an indigenous kid half to death they just shrug, "maybe he should have stayed on the reserve," and don't give it a second thought.

Crow posted:

Why are nazi trolls still allowed here?

Because we hope to engage them in debate until they support Catholic traditionalism.

discipline posted:

in egypt there is nearly zero racism - you can find an egyptian who looks like a sub saharan african and an egyptian with blonde hair and blue eyes and they will marry each other and have babies and it's totally normal but why am I telling you this when you're an idiot

You know the egyptians built the pyramids right? With slave labor? Sounds like a real haven of equality