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Mormons are known for right-wing conservatism. But they don’t need to be. There’s plenty of room for social justice. The scriptures even encourage it. Continue reading Mormonism should be at the forefront of the social justice gospel
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.
Continue reading “Actually, “genocide” is the right term”
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.
Continue reading “Not unfriending people is a privilege”
White supremacy isn’t just being a Nazi. White supremacy is the idea that whiteness is better, that it’s a default. Continue reading You don’t need to be white to support white supremacy
In a Facebook group I’m on, someone posted the following: “I opened my inside door to find a native female … Continue reading If you make it about race, it’s racist
The use of the term “Lamanite” to refer to people indigenous to the Americas and the Pacific Islands is problematic. Continue reading “Why we should stop using “Lamanite””
If God is unchanging, then what God ordains can’t be changed. So if we argue that slavery is ordained by … Continue reading What God ordains can’t be changed
Liberals love respectability politics. It’s why they like rainbows painted on crosswalks but not on half naked bodies in a … Continue reading Liberals love respectability politics
Or more specifically, why we need to stop calling people “a racist”. Continue reading “Why we need to stop calling people racist”
My second job in Lethbridge was cleaning carpets. My boss was racist.