I shouldn’t be surprised—’Western civilization,' our corner of it included, was built on the dispossession of Indigenous people the world over.
Despite years of ‘reconciliation’ rhetoric, Canadian intellectual culture now shamelessly doubles down on its settler/colonial roots.
As the horrors in Gaza accelerate, our National politicians and institutions consolidate around silence and rhetorical diversion in hopes that their agency and complicity remain unseen.
Locally, our town council can’t summon the decency to call for a ceasefire, and a micro-tome of apologetics for atrocities appears as a letter to the editor in our newspaper. (“Ceasefire not always best,” published Dec. 7).
The surreality is astounding. I suggest town council might want to ponder a few things and reconsider its vote.
Manuel Schulte
Squamish
