Frankly for us, it's due to the USA's influence on Canadian politics and society. Look at the current trans genocide going on in various US states/federally. When they're done with us, they'll come for the rest.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Canadians are generally happy to always aim for marginally better than America.

[–] jnb@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I agree, but if someone wants to argue that fascism and "anti-wokeness" isn't here in Canada, I would strongly disagree with them. And I frankly blame the US for that.

[–] orioler25@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For the fascism? Then why did white supremacy exist here before the US even had that influence?

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Source on that? Because US has a long history if that. And if you day British well Americans had that also.

[–] orioler25@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm sorry, are you asking for a source for how Canada, the fucking British colony, was white supremacist before the US had the amount of influence it has over it today?

The Canadian Constitution, The Indian Act, the 1793 Act Against Slavery (I feel the need to explain to you that the need for this law proves the pervasiveness of chattel slavery here, enough to necessitate restrictions).

There's three, one before confederation, one during, and one after. You racist dipshit.

[–] orioler25@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 week ago

Source?

[–] orioler25@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Copy and pasted from a response to another comment that tried to assert that Canadians aren't bigoted save for US influence:

I think it is very funny to suggest that Canadians would need to be tricked or convinced into being bigoted. Even if that was why, those values can only be promoted through social media algorithms and other media production because a substantial number of Canadians are already bigoted, and therefore feel comfortable with said influence. Transphobia and homophobia can be promoted that way because they are already legible to Canadians.

The US and Canada are not two separate planets, they're cooperative settler-colonial states with a shared interest in maintaining heteronormative hierarchies the same as racialized, gendered, and class hierarchies. It isn't a coincidence that many white supremacist leaders in the US are Canadian, or that the Canadian state invests a substantial amount of money into "heritage" subsidies to produce media which portrays Canada as anything other than a brutally genocidal, extractive enterprise. When people talk about racism in the US, they don't consider Canadian influences despite their effects.

It's true that Canada is subordinated politically and culturally to the US, and honestly, it would be accurate to describe it as a part of the US empire for many reasons. So, it isn't necessarily untrue to say that the US influences political or cultural developments within Canada, but it is distortive to suggest that this is why Canadians subscribe to preexisting settler-colonial values. Why not mention the UK then? They're as foreign to Canadians as the US is. J.K. Rowling alone is largely responsible for the rise in trans genocide rhetoric in the past decade even if just by merit of the wealth transferred by her into the hands of bigots globally; the UK government has readily integrated that rhetoric into policy.

The US dedicates wealth to promoting these values the same way every imperialistic state does, including Canada, because they need them to exist. Yes, it effects how rhetoric is applied and by whom, but it works on Canadians because the Canadian state already socializes its citizens to subscribe to these values.