I particularly judge people who don’t boycott anything at all. The people who say “I’m here for a good time, not a long time”. But I don’t judge them absolutely. I was late to the game myself so I don’t blame them. But I still think it’s their and our responsibility to do so. TLDR: no to blame, but yes to judgement.
I think I know what you mean. When I go on holidays, the last place I want to spend my days is in Irish pubs. The good ones can be lovely, and it’s nice to meet new people from home, but it’s not why I’m there.
Do you really think that the people who go to protests don’t also have job? No. They’ve just decided to participate in society.
I could go to one protest on my day off but why should it be a First Nations cause?
Because just like your neighbours in the USA, you live on stolen land.
And which First Nations cause should it be? Land rights? Fishing? Names of streets, statues, and building? Residential Schools? All worth causes that should be fixed.
It is an utter cop out and entirely disingenuous to imply that you protest for nothing because there are too many issues.
It is. But in some cases there’ll be a game or something that has requirements that are hard to wrestle with. For me it was a video game that needed specific libraries to run (possibly directX or whatever is current these days). After hours of attempts I downloaded Crossover and it worked instantly.
Desktop applications like the Office suites typically ran well for me in WINE. although my experience with those is dated by now.
I’m speaking from a macOS perspective but I’ve used WINE on Linux too.
I don’t see Canadian citizens out protesting it in any meaningful numbers. That makes you all complicit.
Edit: this isn’t to dunk only on Canada. Here in Ireland there is widespread racism towards the Traveller population. Policiies and local attitudes make their lives very difficult. They are expected to integrate to the colonial culture here but we are not expected to meet them halfway, etc. I’m just saying that we can’t pretend that we are not the problem.
I was going through a very rough patch in my teens that felt inescapable, included feeling socially isolated. Anyway, one day I was walking down through the city Center with my head down, as usual. A really confident and attractive woman coming towards me stopped briefly and made a point of facing me directly. She had a beaming smile and said “Hi, you have a really nice smile”. She said it assertively and then moved on.
I felt human again and I’ve never forgotten the impact a complete stranger can have in just a brief moment. I try to be that person for others now.
That’s why I don’t understand the widespread oppression of First Nations. I’ve been reading 21 Things You May Not Know About The Indian Act by Bob Joseph. It’s led me on to follow indigenous issues more widely and I have to say, that the Canadian kindness seems pretty exclusive to white people.
I say this only because I feel things will never change as long as Canadians keep telling themselves that they’re good people.
Well said. We don’t like inequality, but when it comes to blame somehow we all get a “tax free” discount.
Yes, they are awful people. They have more than enough money to live out their sickest fantasies and it’s still not enough for them. But they are - at least in part - a symptom of the way the rest of us live. We vote for a government that lets us forget our humanity, class consciousness and responsibility in place of overbearing capitalism. Only we can stop this.
I particularly judge people who don’t boycott anything at all. The people who say “I’m here for a good time, not a long time”. But I don’t judge them absolutely. I was late to the game myself so I don’t blame them. But I still think it’s their and our responsibility to do so. TLDR: no to blame, but yes to judgement.