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Apr 8Liked by Peter d'Errico

It is always so disgusting when absolute domination is masked with sugar. It also reminds of me of the grooming used to lure vulnerable young women and girls into agreeing be raped for small change.

https://www.bishop-accountability.org/native-abuse/

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Interesting... enticement into the domination system as 'grooming' !

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Apr 8Liked by Peter d'Errico

Exactly. The rape of indigenous culture via assimilation is more sanitized, less obviously horrifying. You have to groom for that, for it to be done willingly, and some combination of trauma with making someone feel special, with some degree if fear or of being left out of something with benefits that others are a part of is a very potent mix.

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"Lest there be any doubt about the mirroring of US and Canadian anti-Indian law, read what the Supreme Court of Canada said in the 1990 case R. v. Sparrow:

The honour of the Crown is involved in the interpretation of Indian treaties and, as a consequence, fairness to the Indians is a governing consideration.

[But] it is worth recalling that while British policy towards the native population was based on respect for their right to occupy their traditional lands, a proposition to which the Royal Proclamation of 1763 bears witness, there was from the outset never any doubt that sovereignty and legislative power, and indeed the underlying title, to such lands vested in the Crown: see Johnson v. McIntosh (1823)…."

Very clear. Very clear.

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Although others have been through far, far worse, I was briefly groomed as a figure skater. I can tell you I had no idea. I felt genuinely special that I was being treated as special....I didn't even stop to think whether it was wrong or inappropriate. Nothing "happened" that could not be innocently explained away in a court, but others came forward later. My mother saved me: as. survivor of sexual abuse she could read the signs right away. When she pulled me out of lessons with him, my next cassette tape for my program (the music to go with the choreographed routine) was obviously abrupt, chopped off....unprofessional, intentionally terrible." I worked up to nicely mention if he could redo it and she said, "There are consequences to certain choices." Look up Bob Young and figure skating. That's the guy. The woman who first came forward (eventually settled in court) was a nice young girl who good but not a stand out. Yet she was consistently featured and got "promoted" and I wondered why she got special treatment, it didn't make sense. Now it does.

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The Prime Minister of Japan Kishida said, “ I know that the National Park Service is undertaking a rehabilitation project in the Tidal Basin. As a gesture of friendship, Japan will provide 250 cherry trees that will be planted there, in anticipation of the 250 th anniversary of your independence. “. https://www.mofa.go.jp/files/100652749.pdf

https://www.mofa.go.jp/pageite_000001_00262.html

The Prime Minister of Japan will "present" "250" cherry blossoms by "knowing" the history of the annihilation of indigenous peoples together with the United States and its army.

He praised the white Christian thought that took away Turtle Island.

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Wow... so much mendacity... and he is not unique in that regard...

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So THAT's when the Corona-virus started.

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