My Decolonization Blind Spots

Even as someone who considers myself informed—as someone who reads Indigenous authors, attends events, works alongside Indigenous colleagues, and genuinely cares about justice—I still carry blind spots.

"Today I learned that "Proud Boy" is a rancher term for a gelding (castrated horse) that still mounts the females, and I'm gonna be laughing about that for a long time. 😂🤣😂🤣"

https://www.threads.com/@nienke.v.hasselt/post/DLfPEGQxb21?xmt=AQF0LsTrurSwEh98a9bfvvGbBgvDOS8GWQ7g5ywsAFGbgA

Happy cancel Canada Day day!

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnaby #canlab #canadaisfake #CANCELCANADADAY #proudboys #incels

Nienke Van Hasselt (@nienke.v.hasselt) on Threads

Today I learned that "Proud Boy" is a rancher term for a gelding (castrated horse) that still mounts the females, and I'm gonna be laughing about that for a long time. 😂🤣😂🤣

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@SnowshadowII @AlisonCreekside

Anytime we see consult, it should be consent

Anytime we see consent, it will be consult, if at all

...in legislation, platform, policy, whatever

That's how we know we are a traditional annnnd neocolonial land, this c/a/n/a/d/a project

#cdnpoli #canada #canadaisfake #fascism #antifa #elbowsup

@Nickiquote @pikesley

#canadaisfake

The c/a/n/a/d/a project isn't real either

@bici @MikeImBack

Canada IS fake tho.

Or, as Justin called it, "an oil and gas company"

It was hacked together by a bunch of drunk genocidal racists in service of a genocidal king, trying to steal more land than the genocidal #mairikkkans.

#cdnpoli #canada #rlxn45 #canadaisfake #fascism #antifa #elbowsup

@brenttoderian.bsky.social

Or for invasion, occupation, exploitation, or all the other things (that the c/a/n/a/d/a project has been doing to Indigenous people's for centuries).

Btw, rip Hudson's Bay Company. Except not.

Do they know what people do to #thatcher's grave, constantly?

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #thebay #hbc #landback #reconciliationIsFake #canadaisfake

And now the new Canadian Prime Minister is offering up to $100m for Palestine. And urging israel to help them out, and do the same and cut down on the genocide. Sorry, he didn't say genocide.

And even though we aren't under the Imperial wing of the Failed States of America, we aren't stepping out and taking Mexico's stand on #Palestine and anti-genocide.

This is why #ClaudiaSheinbaum is a better leader than #MarkCarney.

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #canadaIsFake

5/5

I love the #canadaisfake hashtag, when pondering why we began.

Trudeau once slipped and said "Canada is an oil & gas company."

A future kind of a post-Canada thing (#reconciliationisfake is another good one) is an exciting place to imagine.

Right now, keeping #mairikkkan hands off us is critical to do any future intentionality in self-definition with a lot less "canada" and a lot more #landback...and not just dirt.

https://open.substack.com/pub/noraloreto/p/what-canadian-nationalism

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup

What Canadian nationalism?

We long ago sold off Canadian cultural production, leaving nationalism nothing from which to draw on.

Nora Loreto

@thetyee

hey #vancouver, especially #kitsilano residents, did you know about Sen̓áḵw existed in kits, and how they were displaced/cleansed?

#vanpoli #reconciliation #reconciliationisfake #cdnpoli #bcpoli #canadaisfake

Newspapers called it “exceedingly valuable property” while decrying it as a centre for crime and a “moral infection.” Its location, surrounded by the growing metropolis, made it a target of “settler attention, fear and desire,” writes Slobodian.

https://youtube.com/shorts/KV6kIpkWJj0?feature=shared

While we unite to fight the #fascist political and economic terror from #BigHands, we have to remember #canadaisfake

#cdnpoli #bcpoli #antifa

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