I've gone away and thought about this for a few days and upon reflection am still very cross with the original post, which in my mind started the whole conversation off in the wrong tone.
Until I moved to England six years ago, lived my entire life on and around First Nations reserves. I've even been to Attawapiskat, which the staranise linked to information about. In contrast, many or even most Canadians have never been on a reserve.
Reserves can be very deprived and have a lot of problems, but they are usually also great, close-knit communities. Including Attawapiskat! They are more than a convenient example of 'shackland' and infrastructure crises to support a rant against a tongue-in-cheek internet challenge.
The whole conversation has put my back up something fierce. I feel like it has reduced both northern First Nations and Southern communities to nasty, dreary little places -- and I guess it is therefore no wonder staranise doesn't want to be associated with places like that.
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Until I moved to England six years ago, lived my entire life on and around First Nations reserves. I've even been to Attawapiskat, which the staranise linked to information about. In contrast, many or even most Canadians have never been on a reserve.
Reserves can be very deprived and have a lot of problems, but they are usually also great, close-knit communities. Including Attawapiskat! They are more than a convenient example of 'shackland' and infrastructure crises to support a rant against a tongue-in-cheek internet challenge.
The whole conversation has put my back up something fierce. I feel like it has reduced both northern First Nations and Southern communities to nasty, dreary little places -- and I guess it is therefore no wonder staranise doesn't want to be associated with places like that.