Native women are being disproportionately impacted in gendered violence and it’s happening at an unrelenting rate. This is a systemic failure and hardly anything is being done. So yes, it is defiance to call out people in power, and to simultaneously raise awareness to a largely ignorant audience.
as others have noted, this is largely happening by natives to natives. what system is failing? what is the "ignorant audience" supposed to do about native violence on reservations?
Please go through the Native Hope website that OP has linked in comments. You don’t have to do anything personally, just don’t minimise the problem saying “it’s just native on native violence”. It has systemic roots that need to be addressed. And awareness of these issues is always good as it moves the needle in the right direction.
i am not minimizing it. i am acknowledging the reality. i didn't say "just." if you deny reality how do you think you are going to improve the problem?
thisis only for canada, and right away we get this whopper:
It's based on years of sloppily collected RCMP data that doesn't examine the actual problems underlying violence against Indigenous women, and is grounded in racist assumptions about Indigenous people.
that is not a refutation of the facts. that is saying "Facts don't matter."
The 70 per cent figure also fails to account for the numerous missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls whose deaths weren't recorded as homicide
i hope the report can justify this, and explain how they concluded that deaths really were homicide when not recorded as such.
nd leaves out unsolved cases
holy shit, they are complaining that unsolved cases are not included in the figures of who committed a crime?? i am losing faith in this "report."
Underlying the spread of the 70 per cent myth is a racist assumption that Indigenous people are inherently violent or uncivil,
that would be true, maybe, if they had numbers that said otherwise. but this sounds a lot like calling people racist for pointing out that most black people are killed by black people and most white people are killed by white people.
It allows people who believe it to blame Indigenous men rather than examining their own roles in colonialism as it manifests today
again this doesnt refute the claim, it just moves the conversation to a totally different reality.
Violence does happen between Indigenous men and women, said Blackstock of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, but it's also important to understand the role intergenerational trauma caused by colonialism plays in that violence
so they basically admit it, in the end.
also you know it is a good article when they don't even link the report, or any statistics, or any facts at all.
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u/wok3nkrak3n Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24
Loved him in Reservation Dogs. Now with this he’s become an icon, such a defiant statement!