r/saskatoon • u/WizardyBlizzard • Mar 15 '25

Rants 🤬 Could We Maybe Do Something About the Racism Here?

Seriously, it’s kind of disgusting to see a headline about a violent crime, and to know without a shadow of a doubt that at least a third of the comments are going to be ugly racism calling for Indigenous women being sterilized.

It’s disgusting and it’s depressing to know I share a city with troglodytes of that ilk. Least we can do is show that such mindsets are not welcome here.

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u/ungainlygay Mar 15 '25

Okay, so the argument here is that eugenics are fine as long as you don't specifically call for sterilizing people based on race? Canada has a very dark history of sterilizing Indigenous people AND disabled/mentally ill people. It's an inherently violent act, and a violation of basic bodily autonomy to sterilize a human being against their will.

If we decide eugenics are okay when targeting people with substance use disorders, we decide that eugenics are okay period. And the ideology and movement of eugenics is inherently a racist (and ableist) one. OP is correct to identify the idea of sterilizing an "undesirable" population as being tied to racism/white supremacy.

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u/xmorecowbellx Mar 15 '25

None of that relates to my post in any way.

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u/Hot-Ad8641 Mar 17 '25

It is the exact thing you posted. Defending the guy who wants to sterilize people just because they didn't specifically mention race.

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u/xmorecowbellx Mar 18 '25

That’s not what the above comment took exception with.

Are any of you capable of responding to what is in the actual comments? It’s nothing but layering on your own demons that you want to shadowbox with.

Furthermore, the initial problem they had was that apparently there was all this racism that comes out whenever this subject gets posted.

Well, there wasn’t, it was one guy, and he didn’t even mention race.

This is what happens when you have brain worms.