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	sepiamagpie 2011-07-12 02:39 am UTC (link)
	Seconding the warning about Residential Schools. If even my racist as hell grandma thought they were disgusting, they're disgusting. The people running them were a piece of work. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ecchaniz0r 2011-07-12 02:42 am UTC (link)
	One of my profs at university was a survivor of said schools. Yeah. I have never wanted to set so much fire as I did after he alluded to what was done to friends of his. I wanted to set even more fire after he gave us this utterly humourless grin and said, "And mine's considered one of the better schools." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sepiamagpie 2011-07-12 02:44 am UTC (link)
	and they were running into the eighties. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ecchaniz0r 2011-07-12 02:54 am UTC (link)
	I know aaaauurrgrhhhg. It makes me want to clorox my soul. It makes my brain sting. D: (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sepiamagpie 2011-07-12 02:57 am UTC (link)
	It really fucks with my patriotism, man. 'Canada's awesome! Wait, residential schools. Wait, the oka crisis. Son of a bitch.' Can I bitch about the oka crisis? It happened over a fucking golf course. How white is that? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cmdr_zoom 2011-07-12 03:07 am UTC (link)
	But Canada's supposed to be the fucking white liberal promised land (for those of us in the States), what the hell? Oh, white liberal. Got it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

sepiamagpie
2011-07-12 03:11 am UTC (link)

You're basically fucked if you're first nations. A lot of the reservations are disturbingly similar to third world countries.

There was a TB outbreak at one near here. I found out when I was in the hospital and coughed, and joked I had the consumption. And my dad got really upset and said 'a girl died from that upstairs.' and gave me the details about what was going on in Sioux Valley.

My country can be very upsetting.

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	cmdr_zoom 2011-07-12 03:34 am UTC (link)
	you're destroying all my illusions about the land of milk, honey, poutine and socialized medicine. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sepiamagpie 2011-07-12 03:35 am UTC (link)
	We do have those last two. The poutine's pretty good, not gonna lie. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ecchaniz0r 2011-07-13 12:26 am UTC (link)
	We also have pop/soda with cane sugar in it everywhere, and dill pickle chips and ketchup chips (a friend in DC tells me she cannot get those regularly there). And Timbits! So yeah there is fail aplenty here sometimes as there is fail everywhere...but on the upside, while we plot to end the fail entirely, we can eat Timbits. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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