The truth about Canada

Ok, but give us some credit.

It was only last weekend we had a national holiday to celebrate how we treated the natives.

We crammed it into the calendar immediately before Thanksgiving, where we celebrate what we did to the natives.
- Thanksgiving, where we celebrate what we did to the natives.
  
  Despite all the awful things that settlers have done to Aboriginals in Canada (and Native Americans in the USA), neither country's Thanksgiving is about that. Canada's Thanksgiving was originally a celebration of arrival in the New World. Over time, it became a harvest celebration.
... Is that a celebration or a remembrance?
- I mean, if you give people a long weekend they’re gonna celebrate.
  
  I don’t know any white people who sat around in solemn reflection last weekend, but I know plenty who had an extra day of partying.
I bought a medium mocha with orange sprinkles from Starbucks in solidarity.
Which half the provinces don't even recognize (as in, not a stat holiday). Not that it really matters that much. No problem has ever been solved by merely declaring a holiday and there's no shortage of shitty actions speaking louder than any holiday could.

The N in lemmy stands for nuance

I fail to see the nuance in situations like residential schools. Could you perhaps educate me so I can come to a more informed conclusion than sending thousands of indigenous Canadians to schools designed to stripped them of their culture is a bad thing to do.
- Oh we're not even talking about all the ones they straight up murdered and successfully hid for decades in mass graves?
- The country has acknowledged the atrocities of residential schools for many years. If you want to criticize the current state of affairs by all means go ahead, but you are not contributing to the discussion in any way by pointing out residential schools were a bad thing.
- The R in lemmy stands for Reasonable good-faith discussion
  
  I nor this post itself referenced residential schools before your inflammatory reply. Come back when you've taken off the internet boxing gloves.
- T&R is a thing
There is no nuance in human rights.

Also, this is lemmyshitpost, tf you want
Indigenous rights in Canada is like the silent 'b' in doubt

It's there, no one pronounces it and everyone hates it when they have to write it.
- As someone with English as their second, not first language...
  
  THE B IS SILENT? I ALWAYS PRONOUNCED IT. DID I DO IT WRONG?

What kind of issue does someone have to have to marginally rotate a red legend box?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Duality_Flag

Check mate.

Honestly that bit of blue makes the whole thing pop. Looks really good
- As a French Canadian (Acadian), I don't mind it either. It's a nice looking flag. Something about the blue being proportional to the French speaking population kinda irks me though.
Looks like a hockey rink
Man, your blue stripe flag is much nicer than our blue stripe flag.

...why is the bottom 50 pixels or so cut off the image?

The purple in China's flag stands for freedom

China has the CCP not the PPC

The leaf hides a bunch if Nazi runes.

I really think y'all should just let that one marinate.

Is this a shitpost because blue actually represents the Quebecois who view themselves as oppressed the way they oppressed Indigenous People, for whom orange/yellow/black/red/white are more representative colours?