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Mood in the country has turned angry. Nihilists and anti capitalists and self-flagellating whites and native grifters and police haters and history revisionists have united over nothing. The woman’s tragic death was no one’s fault. Claiming genocide is utter nonsense. It is the height of language inflation and ugly callousness for those who truly know genocide.

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Apr 11, 2023·edited Apr 11, 2023

I found it strange that there were not angry demonstrations about the laxness of the Justice system after a felon with multiple violent convictions, who broke probation conditions, who had been living on a reserve where no-one reported his presence, killed ten people there. "Generations of Trauma" was seen to be the cause, therefore, somebody else's fault other than the perpetrator's. The responsibility is seen to be systemic, societal, rather than individual. With this view the perpetrator appears to be acting like an automaton without agency. The case of Ms. Beardy is tragic and horrible. I think it would be more constructive and less polarizing to look at the specific evidence of why she died, and find solutions from there, rather than first going to ideological and racial assumptions and working from that narrative framework.

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