Grooming A Nation with Pronouns and Land Acknowledgements
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about how important it is to stand up and speak out against the land acknowledgements and pronouns that are being used in public schools and public spaces across the province of British Columbia. I also talk about the need to stop waiting for someone else to do something you can do it and just do it.
Transcript
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The sound of my heart pumping is so loud sometimes I feel like everybody must be able to hear it
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because I never even felt this way when I was in court but you get in there and the energy is so
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toxic and you know and whenever I stand up the whole place goes totally quiet.
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So not in a good way not in a good way so I stand up and I say my point and it's really but I do it
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and as soon as I stand up I notice that my fear just drains out of me and I stand and it's amazing
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once you're in action the fear goes away it's the sitting cogitating pondering worrying upset
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complaining like and the and the contemplating the doing once you do it it's incredible how much you
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feel stronger because you're in action so as soon as I stand up I say I'm at work now I'm a lawyer and
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my client is the province of British Columbia and I'm going to speak.
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So there's an amazing undercover journalist in the states whose motto is be brave do something I love
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that one that's a good one and and stop thinking someone else will do these things okay it's it's
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up to each of us uh just so whichever way you find you can do it do just do it and don't wait for
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someone else to do it because you're all more powerful than I can be by myself um the land
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acknowledgements and pronouns that is a way of grooming you and um the land acknowledgements are
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grooming make no mistake about it when I've heard the first time I heard one I was like this is not good
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I remember being alert to it right away I'm like what the heck are we doing here do you know that
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they're now doing the land acknowledgements ahead of the national anthem at hockey games I've heard
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I mean and it's it's incredible so um I don't go to the hockey games but apparently that's what
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they're doing and um every day every day telling children they're on stolen land and that they should
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be ashamed of their history it's so damaging to the kids morale we are an amazing why do you think
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people want to immigrate here because we're a horrible country we're a great country but we're
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being we're it's it's a way of lowering your um dispiriting you it's it's a way of bringing you
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down and making you feel just like what's the use it's futile okay who cares anymore if they tax me
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more it's it's really intended to take the joy out of you and to um disempower you and these land
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acknowledgements have got to stop if I were premier I would immediately say no more land
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acknowledgements at any publicly funded institution