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First Nation in B.C. demands province respect Joffre Lakes Park closure dates (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 1 week ago by rabber@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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Special race based privileges in a public park. I'm not a fan.

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[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Your induction into the tribes would be at the tribes' discretion just like it was Canada's discretion to let you in from Germany. Calling out "racism" for people just trying to protect what little they have left is the peak of absurdity.

I'm not sure what outrageous situation you're imagining but you're not going to walk into the park and be apprehended by a bunch of dudes in a loincloth who hold a skin color picker chart up to you and say "he's too pink, throw him in the Wigwam to await questioning."

[-] rabber@lemmy.ca -3 points 1 week ago

I have literally been stopped by FN due to my skin colour

Example. Capilano Indian Reserve No. 5 in north vancouver. I like to tent camp there when I visit vancouver for concerts at the RV park. Years ago, when I asked about where the trail is to the river, they literally told me it's for FN only with a straight face lol

I know what white privilege is btw and I guess it's a taste of my own medicine.

[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 4 points 1 week ago

So you got told that a reservation is restricted to the people who own the land and you immediately consider it a race issue?

I got a solution for you, pal. Go hiking in the mountains of Afghanistan. Take lots of pictures. They'll treat you right.

[-] rabber@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 week ago

I don't live in afghanistan and I have never contributed to the country whatsoever. It's different.

[-] TheHonourablePierrePoilievre@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Neither do you live in Capilano Indian Reserve No. 5.

[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 1 week ago

You'll contribute with your tourist money on your way through and surely they will appreciate that, go out there and see the world.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Well there's the issue, you weren't on public land, you are on reserve land that indigenous have rights to. Reserve, as in Reserved for them, as a token for stealing all the rest.