title: dutch antiislam mp wilders to snub hate speech trial
text: lukas mikelionis heat street october   
  snip according to misao dean professor of english at the university of victoria the canoe can be a symbol of colonialism imperialism and genocide due to history she also accused the canoers of cultural appropriation because they are primarily white men and have a privileged place in society 
  in a radio interview for cbc radio  which wasnt picked up by the internet until several months later she claimed we have a whole set of narratives that make the canoe into a kind of morally untouchable symbol something that seems natural that seems ordinary and seems to promote values that we ascribe to 
  but i think if you look a little further that narrative obscures or erases another narrativeand that narrative is about to be blunt its about theft and genocide the professor said 
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  its not a coincidence that it was white men of a certain age    certainly the majority of wilderness canoers are people who have a very privileged place in society theyre frequently highly educated people theyre almost completely white she said 
  cbc radio host jim brown then asked a question should we look at the canoe as a noncontroversial symbol or should we look at it as a symbol of colonialism 
  to which the academic replied absolutely a symbol of colonialism it seems to me that this narrative we tell ourselves about the canoe about how canoeing makes us in touch with nature how canoeing makes us in some way guiltless of the terrible things that the canadian government and canadians in general did to first nations people 
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  either way somebody should break the news to canadas woke prime minister justin trudeau about this its  after all thrilled to let you know were going to need another seat in our canoe sophie is pregnant threeisthenewtwo pictwittercomgmbwaep