EnviroTO
Senior Member
Some day the remaining statues of the world will come down as we realize that people are not perfect. Down with the non-vegans, down with the conservatives, down with the nationalists, etc. What, that famous athlete played for Canada, down with that.
As we become more aware of how wrong the ways of the past are, I think we need to accept that was where we came from. We improved as a society, or at least we hope we did. Europeans piled on boats for the new world to create a place in their image and acted as if there was nobody here. That is the story of many Canadian great grandparents. It is so obviously wrong to us now that people would invade a world and decide it is theirs, but that was the way of the world.
We cite treaties that were signed but like many treaties between nations the reality is that the nation with the power holds the cards. You can be almost certain that in every situation they got a raw deal.
Not that one side was inherently better than another. Humanity, around the world, was tribal. Europeans as natives to Europe fought their neighbours, Native Americans fought Native Americans, and to the powerful went the spoils. It is so obvious to a lawful and just society that this isn't how it should be, but that is how it was. All humanity before is not inherently evil, just not evolved in their thinking.
We need to accept our story, tell it honestly, and find the way forward that treats people living today justly. We improve on this year to year. Women's rights, gay rights, minority rights, accessibility, etc. We get better, we must all do better.
As we become more aware of how wrong the ways of the past are, I think we need to accept that was where we came from. We improved as a society, or at least we hope we did. Europeans piled on boats for the new world to create a place in their image and acted as if there was nobody here. That is the story of many Canadian great grandparents. It is so obviously wrong to us now that people would invade a world and decide it is theirs, but that was the way of the world.
We cite treaties that were signed but like many treaties between nations the reality is that the nation with the power holds the cards. You can be almost certain that in every situation they got a raw deal.
Not that one side was inherently better than another. Humanity, around the world, was tribal. Europeans as natives to Europe fought their neighbours, Native Americans fought Native Americans, and to the powerful went the spoils. It is so obvious to a lawful and just society that this isn't how it should be, but that is how it was. All humanity before is not inherently evil, just not evolved in their thinking.
We need to accept our story, tell it honestly, and find the way forward that treats people living today justly. We improve on this year to year. Women's rights, gay rights, minority rights, accessibility, etc. We get better, we must all do better.
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