I'm Canadian and can confirm Canada has always been racist gestures broadly at indigenous affairs and history of violence and assimilation.
That being said Canadians are very nice and it's only a smaller minority that is racist/ awful.
This is true of America, too. I think most people you are likely to meet in America sit between the "not at all racist" and "I mean yeah but it's pretty low key and subconscious" end of the racism spectrum, it's just that our more virulent racists are so often cops and presidential candidates.
Our southern racist neighbor embolden the local racists and make them feel more comfortable doing their racist recruitment in public where it's more effective.
Canada is always just an election cycle or two behind the popular American culture.
Indigenous women have been disappearing to the concern of absolutely nobody in the country for decades. If anything, the rise in fascist ideology in the US has made people more aware and critical of the racism that already existed in Canadian society
That's true, it has emboldened both the bigots and progressives, but I feel like the bigots have turned that boldness into action and change.
I mean.. sure.. but you can't say they're not making it worse and feeding into it for profit
don’t blame the US for what already was there
Flips on American television
Black people are committing crimes! Latinos are doing drugs! Arabs are terrorists! Chinese people are cheating on tests and stealing your jobs! Everyone in India is trying to scam you!!!
Now back to our regularly scheduled movie about a cool White Nationalist who fights back by shooting everyone with a big gun!
Damn, crazy how this was all here before Americans arrived.
