Actually, “genocide” is the right term
First Nations, Race

Actually, “genocide” is the right term

The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls was released in June 2019. It’s over 1,000 pages long and comes in 2 volumes.

Even though it has 231 calls for justice, people got hung up on the report’s use of the word genocide. Critics of the term argue that since Indigenous people in Canada weren’t rounded up into concentration camps and executed by the millions, as was done to Jewish people and others during the Holocaust, we can’t use genocide to refer to Indigenous experience. They also say that what happened to Indigenous people doesn’t parallel the Rwandan genocide, another reason to not use the word.

Except these critics are wrong.

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Not unfriending people is a privilege
Gay, LGBTQ, Race, Sex

Not unfriending people is a privilege

About a year or so ago, I wrote a Facebook post where I mentioned that I was unhiding all the people and pages that I had previously hidden, that I was unsanitizing my own news feed, unsiloing it.

I’ve been contemplating that position recently. I’m still doing this, trying to expose myself to different viewpoints and trying to not dismiss viewpoints contrary to my own.

However.

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Tax cuts don’t lead to indirect job growth either.
Economy

Tax cuts don’t lead to indirect job growth either.

I’ve been engaging with conservatives recently when they’ve been claiming that tax breaks lead to more jobs.

As I’ve shown them evidence that companies who receive tax breaks don’t hire more people when compared to hiring prior to the tax break, I’ve noticed an interesting trend: they start shifting the goalposts. Their claim moves to one of indirect job creation.

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