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Reparative citizenship may aim to right past wrongs, but @peterspiro.bsky.social argues it actually weakens the foundational concept of citizenship itself 🛂⚖️
It is unsentimental, instrumental, detached from the community and erodes civic ties 🧑🤝🧑🚫
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But it’s use as a cudgel to destroy institutions essential to our country has absolutely nothing to do with that.
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Reparations aren’t just about citizenship, what if refusal is the remedy?
Settler states 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇦🇺 must recognise Indigenous Peoples' right to reject colonial citizenship while ensuring access to services & recognition
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More than 3,000 people are homeless in Ottawa.
ottawa.citynews.ca/2024/12/13/o...
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Let’s draw on that compassionate tradition and fight the racism and disinformation circulating right now.
Housing is a human right. Refugees are welcome here.
I know we can do better, Ottawa.
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www.cips-cepi.ca/2024/10/01/c...
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Rainer Baubock shifts the focus in his contribution on “embattled democracies”: