jd22
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Nothing you say is incorrect, but I would say most of my comments are a reaction to some moral high-horsing that Irish folks tend to take when colonialism is discussed on the internet. There's nothing wrong with Irish folks holding a more nuanced view of history - as a people's who were very much a victim of colonialism while gently reminding them that Irish people's were also perpetrators of it.
I don't think aboriginal folks who were displaced, exploited (and yes even genocided) by Irish colonists and Irish Catholic missionaries give much a shit of the distinction from them and their French and British counterparts.
And certainly I don't need to remind folks of the Catholic Church's own hellish role in our country's history, nor that Catholic Ireland's role in it as the Church's english speaking arm (in English speaking colonies).
I could go on and discuss how European countries in general are very bad about teaching their own country's legacy in colonialism and prefer to blame it on the colonial nations that they profited from and helped create, but that's getting even MORE off topic.
Anyways, that's the last I'll say on this. Really has nothing to do with the Canucks.
Let me bring a tangent to bring it back to the Canucks and also my local soapbox. The Dutch Gretzky played here, lest we forget the Weise-est amongst the Canucks of the last decade.
Anyway. More than half of the Netherlands are against the government issuing a formal apology for slavery. Not just colonialism, but straight up slavery. People still dress up in blackface here around Christmas for sinterklaas.
Hoorn says no to slavery apology, despite its slave trade past - DutchNews.nl
Councillors in Hoorn have decided not to make a formal apology for the town’s role in slavery or formally recognise its slave trade history, despite research showing it had a major stake. A majority of councillors refused to back a motion calling for an apology, and even more refused to back a...
www.dutchnews.nl
This deals with a particular town that was a large slave trading port. "No, it wasn't us, no need to apologize"
These f***ing people.