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KRUGGEL: That sign is a mistake, and it is ignorant


Calling people born in Canada "settlers" is ridiculous. This is as ridiculous as Donald Trump trying to end "birth right citizenship." 

If you're born in Canada, you are a Canadian, and this is your country of origin. Period. If you say that person doesn't and should not have full citizenship and the rights that come with it then you are defacto mouthing Donald Trump and MAGA's argument.

While First Nations may not like to hear this, they too are settlers in North America. 

I know that's not popular, but the First Nations' ancestors came here in waves as the last Ice Age was ending via a land bridge -- but also after that by ocean faring early humans. Their unique cultures trace back to Polynesian migration waves not the northern land bridge.

But yes, First Nations were here first and what was done to them by our ancestors was beyond horrible. It was an attempt at genocide and later cultural genocide.

The problem though is that a sign like "No Settlers" feeds the argument and moral position of the racist, the neo-Nazi, the skinhead, the KKK sympathizer, and all those kinds of people.

Reconciliation must be a two-way street. it is, by all reasonable analysis akin to a bridge. 

If we do not build and maintain that bridge then the racial harmony we need and want will never materialize.

That sign is a mistake, and it is ignorant.
 

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  1. AnonymousOctober 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM

    hate hate hate is all we get for our efforts in reconciliation . Is this what the Canadian Pioneers faced as they built Canada ? Disturbing

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