Kurds demonstrate for Canada support
There was a demo downtown Saturday in urgent support of the Kurds who’ve been left undefended against Turkey. It’s not clear to me what Canada can do, especially with the U.S. in the mood it’s in, but I understand why people sometimes simply have to get out and speak up.
qatzelok 17:53 on 2019-10-12 Permalink
Turkey is our “ally.” When our allies kill thousands of innocent people, it’s often called “fighting terrorism” in our media.
It’s also what our genocidal “pioneers” thought they were doing: fighting terrorism.
Michael Black 19:37 on 2019-10-12 Permalink
I don’t think that’s a proper interpretation.
The cousins were often very welcoming when Europeans came over. It was when the Eurooeans acted badly that the cousins reacted.
So nobody wrote down anything about my great, great, great grandparent s marriage in 1812, but Mourning Dove in her autobiography says that the relatives were not happy when she moved away as a result of the marriage. That sounds like any parents.
All those westerns are real, in that there was a reaction to the masses moving in, rather than to trade, and marry. The Battle of Little Big Horn was because of a broken treaty, which said the Paha Sapa were for the Sioux. But then the settlers came, and gold was found in those Black Hills, so there was reaction.
Your use of “terrorism” skews the story to the Europeans, the mistreatment generally happened before the cousins did anything. Hence to mistreat them early on just continued, rather than presenting the push back as being because they were violent.
Europeans may not have liked Chief Joseph, or Sitting Bull, or cousin Louis, but they were generally treated as trouble, not “terrorists”.
Yesterday was the 150th anniversary of Louis and others disrupting the survey. I thought I saw that October 21st ( this year’s election day) was an anniversary of some event, but Oct 22nd is Louis’ birthday, the day before mine.
These are more important things than your need to demonize Europeans who came over. It’s way more important to speak of the cousins than how European settlers treated them. The cousins have suffered badly, but they don’t have the rage of white people who suddenly discover some mistrearment of tge cousins.
Michael
Kate 20:23 on 2019-10-12 Permalink
How did a brief post about the Kurds turn into an epic about indigenous people in 2 comments?
Chris 20:29 on 2019-10-12 Permalink
Through the magic of internet commenting!
qatzelok 07:45 on 2019-10-13 Permalink
Michael, thanks for reminding us that even though the Kurds are suffering, it’s no one’s fault, and certainly not the fault of rich countries using the poor underclasses as ramming rods against one another.
Qatzel
dwgs 10:59 on 2019-10-15 Permalink
Thank you Michael for the thoughtful response, I learned something. qatzelok, it’s clear that Michael was responding only to your last sentence, your dismissive sarcastic response was unwarranted imo.