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Canada in the European Union? Poll suggests broad openness to the idea (cheknews.ca)

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A further 58 per cent indicated it was a proposal worth exploring further

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[-] wieson@feddit.org 1 points 11 hours ago

Malta, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Luxembourg, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Greece

[-] orioler25@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I'm not sure if this is meant to evoke a narrative that only exists from distortion or just from a small group.

[-] wieson@feddit.org 1 points 5 hours ago

These countries are essential to the European project. The EU compromises of countries who were colonisers, non-colonisers and colonised.
The EU's goal is to unite and facilitate peace. Sure, we have unhealthy power gradients that need to be worked on, but the EU is not a coloniser/settler state.

It's not a distortion, it's filling in the picture.

[-] orioler25@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Oh, yes it was a distortion. Europeans are the only people in the world that insist that European colonialism has concluded, and so it is a convenient (and insular) narrative to suggest that "uniting" colonizers and colonized peoples would mean a governmental coalition of exclusively European states and is actually more beneficial to the reproduction of colonialism elsewhere -- as in the global south where it has historically and presently done the most harm -- than it is to any "European project" oriented toward "peace."

I'd be surprised if you've read any decolonial scholarship, let alone the voices of colonized peoples at all, and then spew this nonsense. How many people in this thread even considered consulting indigenous peoples of Canada in this matter, or even talked about their experiences at all in the past year? Asinine.

[-] wieson@feddit.org 1 points 3 hours ago

I've actually talked with a few Canadian Cree in the past year. But not about politics or the EU ¯\⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[-] orioler25@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

"I can't be racist, I spoke to a black guy." Yeah dude, I bet you were super woke with them. Unreal.

[-] wieson@feddit.org 1 points 20 minutes ago

I'm sorry that - by chance - I passed the arbitrary purity test that you set up

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