Read : The "left" has lot sight of progressive ideals being too deep in identity politics. Umair argues that the suffering from war, basic sanitation and poverty is not the equivalent as microaggressions but the outrage mobs feel equally upset. I thought this was a bit inflammatory calling them the zombie alt-left; but when we lose sight of the larger injustices; he makes a good case. Listen : "Canada is a state built on the removal of Indigenous peoples to make way for resource extraction companies." The removal of indigenous people for the sake of the economic benefit of the rest of us is not new. It's definitely an inconvenient truth. Some argue that members of the indigenous community will get jobs out of it, so they should just be grateful and shut up. The cost to the environment is significant as well as their ability to self-govern the little land that hasn't been stolen. Were someone to take over my backyard, potentially poison the groundwa...
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