D’oh! When was the last time you read a newspaper report naming the “race”, when the color was white? Like, never. Only POC get this “special” attention.
children learn about violence by watching how people in power resolve conflict — with war, shootings by police, etc. ad nauseam — and by the violence inflicted upon them by family…
Remembering reading this thread way back in the day, I can safely say Trudeau was not parodying — he was consciousness-raising. Compassionately giving the unhoused a voice, un-invisibilizing them.
I think many people are made uncomfortable when the topic of the unhoused and the other marginalized people comes up. Similar to how many people look away from the person on the corner with the sign…
And the laws sprouting up here and there against feeding homeless people… Looking at you, Florida, but I’m sure there are many other places in this backwards country called America with ways to criminalize the most marginalized.
“The unfettered distribution of misinformation in so many critical areas is, in fact, to be blamed for much of our current societal ills.”
that and not teaching critical thinking in our schools.