“Somehow she seemed less keen on the British kid reconnecting with their roots with coal dust or the Australian a poison jar.”
Tbh, going outside to reconnect with nature sounds like a great idea for both kids and adults. Instead of investing in office nap pods and pizza parties, companies should start building jungle gyms and bring back recess.
I miss jungle gyms.
Did you do monkey bar fights ?
I've never thought about that, but it'd honestly do so much good. Sure, some people would be too lazy to take advantage of it, but a little physical activity in the middle of the day, after sitting in a chair or whatever all day, would probably do wonders for people's brains. That's not even mentioning socializing with coworkers. It'd probably actually accomplish the "team-building" they always try to do.
The new google office in Boulder has two distinct climbing walls visible from outside the building.
It's all fun and games right before someone would claim you cursed them or brought a bad luck.
I'm a person of colour and left leaning, but I find that there is ironic racism from the liberals and the left, as exemplified by this post. I appreciate that many thinkers including Slavoj Zizek call them out on this. There is the idea that persons of colour and minorities are perpetually helpless who need uplifting by privileged white people. Which in effect condescends and stereotype PoCs and thereby exotocising them. It denies the humanity and agency of PoCs to be an individual human who are just as flawed as any of us. This is the modern-day version of "white man's burden".
Why do I have to think of Chakotay?
For anyone not getting the reference: Chakotay is a native American character on Star Trek:Voyager played by Robert Beltran. The show hired a Native American consultant named James Highwater (real name Jack Marks) who was a complete fraud.
https://heavy.com/entertainment/star-trek/jamake-highwater-voyager-fake-native-american/
It would still be racist if it wasn't for the fraud. It's a future where everyone is enlightened and rational; not a bible or Quran in sight. You won't find the doctor sprinkling holy water on his patients or fumbling with a Rosary. Some things may indulged by the enlightened, though, for are the savages not like children, in a state of nature.
At least it's not as bad as the space jews. Holy shit, the space jews. They are even introduced as stealing our federation women. The US used to hang people who published that kinda shit. Whatever happened there?
Akoochemoya
We are far from the bones of our ancestors...
"Is it the tattoo? Because mine's bigger!"
There was a slightly different version of this around a month or two ago where the whole class was Navajo
Turns out Cherokee had a lot of princesses
Bro got reverse rasicm'd
Wonder if they went to the same school
The one thing I hate about modern social media is the lack of time tags. Twitter’s “6 days ago” tells me fucking nothing! Tumblr’s complete absence of temporal acknowledgment is frustrating.
You can get the time if you go to the post and click on the three dots, but it really shouldn't be that much effort.
Must have been math class cause this dummy doesn't know anything about percentages.
He was connecting with nature during maths
Class sizes are outrageous now. There must have been literally 100 people in the class including him. =p
Do they call themselves "Indians"?
Many do, yes.
I have a few friends who are Narragansett and they all call themselves Indians
I love the Narragansett
According to CGP Grey, yes, they do.
What do you mean they?! /s. Personally I don't like the term, but my status card does say "Indian and northern affairs", but at least if you go to the government site it mentions how "Indian" is not how many indigenous people want to be referred to as. Why do they not change it? Good question, I'd assume legal stuff with the act or whatnot. But at least I prefer indigenous.
A majority of them I knew growing up in Oklahoma did, but that was in the 90s, I have no idea if that is still a typical thing.
Yeah, the older people still say stuff like "come over here and talk Indian with me". But it seems like most of the younger people will either say their native, or name a specific tribe.
I grew up being told to say "native American", so it really threw me when I went to the Smithsonian recently and saw the "American Indian" museum.
A museum museum would be kind of cool. Just a bunch of VR headsets where you can visit museums that no longer exist.
Nah, this is fake as shit.
In college I had an SJW that basically let me do whatever I want in class because I was trans, thank God too, cause damn is Intro to Psychology a hard fucking class
Damn, the only leeway I ever got was for being smart. Sure me being trans certainly helped with the lesbian professor, but she was only giving me leeway because I excelled in her classes. Turns out gen ed English professors dgaf if you go in already writing at a college level
Oh I flunked the fuck out of College English several times despite that not making any sense, I've always done well with words and shit, hell I'm a fucking writer.
I talked to my guidance consular about this, and she told me that sometimes professors have biases towards or against students, or just a fucking weird way of doing things, and everytime I had the same professor, so she just had me take it one more time with someone else.
Aced the FUCK out of it with no problem, so yeah.... there's negative and positve bias.... The first english teacher was a cold bitch, but the one I switched to was pretty cool and actually engaged with the material, explained what he expected from assignments, a complete 180
God fuck I wish I realized I was trans back in College I might have had a way easier time instead of burning out and having a mental breakdown because I went to some liberal as fuck courses (...partly due to said mental breakdown, mind.)
In the words of my favorite Presidents: “Discipline makes things easier. Organize your life”
Just saying letting you do whatever probably didn’t make that class easier.
Funny they would say it's racist...
The gov of Canada allows any of its employees who identifies as first Nation to take extra days off to participate in traditional practices (including fishing and hunting), which is something that doesn't exist for anyone else and to me that's discrimination towards anyone that isn't Christian or first Nation considering our holidays are based on Christian celebrations...
Edit: Guess I wasn't clear? Our holiday calendar being based on Christian celebrations and first Nations getting a guaranteed 5 days off to celebrate their traditions is discrimination against people that aren't part of either group since they're at the mercy of their manager when it comes to being able to have a day off for their traditions/holidays.
Giving rights to people doesn't take them away from others.
If Christians needed this according to their religion I have no doubt they'd get it.
In fact in my country (UK) many Christian events are already holidays (Easter, Christmas). Is this not the same in Canada?
Edit:
Canadians commonly refer to Easter as the period from Good Friday through Easter Monday. Good Friday (and /or Easter Monday) is a statutory holiday in Canada.
Christians already have this in Canada. So your point is totally incorrect. This in fact brings their religious rights in line with Christians.
It would be discrimination if only Christians got December 25 and 26 off. But that's not the case, is it?
In terms of Indigenous people getting extra holidays... well they get that because of residential schools and even worse things done by the Canadian government. I dunno, it's a whole emotional thing, there's not much logic to why 5 days off helps with all that. The government generally just does stuff like this so Indigenous people don't go to the UN and embarrass the country.
But arguing against Christmas being a holiday means the "War on Christmas" crowd won't go along with you, and arguing against Indigenous rights gets the left against you. So it's a politcal non-starter.
One religious group gets to have all its holidays off by default
One ethnic group gets to have an extra five days off to participate in traditional activities
All people who aren't part of those two groups are dependent on the goodwill of their employer to have days off for their religious holidays and traditional activities
How is that not discrimination?
If the CHRC agrees I think there must be something there, right?
https://www.chrc-ccdp.gc.ca/en/resources/publications/discussion-paper-religious-intolerance
Discrimination against religious minorities in Canada is grounded in Canada’s history of colonialism. This history manifests itself in present-day systemic religious discrimination. An obvious example is statutory holidays in Canada. Statutory holidays related to Christianity, including Christmas and Easter, are the only Canadian statutory holidays linked to religious holy days. As a result, non-Christians may need to request special accommodations to observe their holy days and other times of the year where their religion requires them to abstain from work.Footnote4
I would say that that's the government of Canada making itself a more attractive potential employer for folks who identify as First Nation (and thanks to the Indian Act they wouldn't be able to make it up on the fly)
Many organizations offer religious accommodations, it's just usually something thats handled internally and not necessary advertised.
But it being dependent on the goodwill of your employer leaves the door open to discrimination.
Your boss is a closeted racist and you're a Muslim asking to have an unpaid day off for an Islamic holiday? Refused. You're a white guy asking for a day off to have a long weekend for camping? No problem. You're a Christian they celebrates Easter? Hey, you're off by default!
Everyone should have the same opportunities, no matter their ethnic origin or their religious beliefs, the government should be blind to that.
Lol, Native Americans don't go out everyday and perform rituals to "connect with nature". That's the racist part in the post. Some Indigenous tribes probably do, but not all Native Americans are the same. There are still different tribes and ethnic groups with their own customs and culturesm
Nah, I just found it funny because the federal government applies the same kind of logic to their employees as a reconciliation measure, so it's pretty ironic.
