Playing the Race Card
Post by Souriquois on May 24, 2018 22:38:10 GMT -4
They really did, in 1932, during the Great Depression.
They believed that the high unemployment rate among single white men was a national security threat, since they were frustrated and congregating in cities. The fear was that, as they were single so had no families, and couldn't find a job, they would turn into a fascist movement, so they sent them to "relief camps" where they could work clearing bush, planting trees, building public buildings and roads. They were paid 20 cents a day, got room and board, food, and health care provided.
In all, 170,248, stayed in the camps. Going to the relief camps was said to be voluntary, but they could have been arrested for vagrancy if they refused.
I don't know the exact number of deaths, but it was a lot when H1N1 (the same flu virus that spread in 2009) spread throughout the camps.
It is considered a considered a dark part of Canada's history today, and a human rights violation (of many in our history), but I cannot help but think:
The reason people are bringing them up in the news today, is because in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, we are seeing a similar pattern: Young, single, unemployed white men are getting pissed off, and it is driving them towards the alt-right (today, the Canadian government considers at least two subsets of the alt-right, Counter Jihadism and Incels, as national security threats).
The Canadian government saw it at the time, and thought putting them to work would help. It didn't, obviously, they became more radical, but in the other direction. It was said at these camps, the men were reading more Marx and Lenin than pornographic magazines, and a thousands of them escaped from the camps and marched to Ottawa:
People say now, we gotta get these young men to work. That did not help in the case of the Great Depression. Still, I am hearing similar arguments flying around in some circles.
What do you think? Was the Canadian government right or wrong?
What do you think should be done with idle, frustrated young white men today?
And yeah, I made a "horrible things happened to white men" thread... folks can stop calling me an SJW now. I think these camps were awful, and I would say being against putting white men in camps puts you more on the side of social justice (so the right side) than being for it... and this atrocity wasn't some "regressive left" shit, it was done by right-wing white men (it was a Conservative government) to other white men.
They believed that the high unemployment rate among single white men was a national security threat, since they were frustrated and congregating in cities. The fear was that, as they were single so had no families, and couldn't find a job, they would turn into a fascist movement, so they sent them to "relief camps" where they could work clearing bush, planting trees, building public buildings and roads. They were paid 20 cents a day, got room and board, food, and health care provided.
In all, 170,248, stayed in the camps. Going to the relief camps was said to be voluntary, but they could have been arrested for vagrancy if they refused.
I don't know the exact number of deaths, but it was a lot when H1N1 (the same flu virus that spread in 2009) spread throughout the camps.
It is considered a considered a dark part of Canada's history today, and a human rights violation (of many in our history), but I cannot help but think:
The reason people are bringing them up in the news today, is because in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, we are seeing a similar pattern: Young, single, unemployed white men are getting pissed off, and it is driving them towards the alt-right (today, the Canadian government considers at least two subsets of the alt-right, Counter Jihadism and Incels, as national security threats).
The Canadian government saw it at the time, and thought putting them to work would help. It didn't, obviously, they became more radical, but in the other direction. It was said at these camps, the men were reading more Marx and Lenin than pornographic magazines, and a thousands of them escaped from the camps and marched to Ottawa:
People say now, we gotta get these young men to work. That did not help in the case of the Great Depression. Still, I am hearing similar arguments flying around in some circles.
What do you think? Was the Canadian government right or wrong?
What do you think should be done with idle, frustrated young white men today?
And yeah, I made a "horrible things happened to white men" thread... folks can stop calling me an SJW now. I think these camps were awful, and I would say being against putting white men in camps puts you more on the side of social justice (so the right side) than being for it... and this atrocity wasn't some "regressive left" shit, it was done by right-wing white men (it was a Conservative government) to other white men.
