Hugely embarrassing for canada, and shows our historic blind spot for indigenous lives.
That’s sad.
But also not surprising. There are lots of people acting shocked, but none of them are indigenous. All of the indigenous women are rolling their eyes and going “well yeah, did we really need to waste money on a study to find out what we already knew?”
Also not surprising when one of the big issues orgs like the Human Rights Tribunal has is getting indigenous people to trust them and report issues to them and other similar organizations in the first place.
Despite the very top of those groups trying to help them and getting turned away.
I mean, a lot of that is due to historical grievances that those groups have with the government and NGOs. They’ve been burned too many times. It’s the same reason a black person will be hesitant to call the cops; They have a history of causing more damage than they fix, so certain populations will be wary of them. Even if these organizations mean well, they’re fighting an uphill battle because they have to break through the mistrust first. Fool me once, and all that jazz.
Hell, look at Pakistan’s issues with Polio for a good example of how people are able to remember being harmed by an organization. Pakistan still deals with polio and other fully preventable diseases, largely because the population mistrusts vaccinations. Vaccination programs simply haven’t been effective. And why does the population distrust vaccinations? Because the CIA masqueraded as doctors on a humanitarian mission, in order to covertly collect DNA samples from the population in their hunt for Osama Bin Laden. Something blatantly against the Geneva Convention. So now lots of the population has a major distrust of modern medicine and doctors, because there are still plenty of people who remember what happened the last time they trusted western “doctors”.
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The report also said most Indigenous women and girls were found to be killed by someone they knew, and those accused in most cases were also Indigenous.
Seems like a failure of res police forces rather than racism.
it shows one hell of alot more than just failure of police-services/enforcement:
it shows failure of parenting, of education, of community, of journalism, of acceptance-within-Canada, and much more…
How do you manufacture violent-crime in a community/city?
Increase the young-male unemployment, and the young males will assault whomever they can take it out on.
That automatic function has been known for decades, ttbomk.
What’s apparently happening is the same: males taking some internally-felt-harm & multiplying it, enforcing it onto others, who are unable to defend themselves.
I wish male-culture valued integrity anywhere near as much as it values bulling successfully, not just in this, or that, race/culture, but across all of 'em.
Thank you for highlighting the point you did, Hoomin…
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, eh?
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