Last month, the Treaty 8 Tribal Association building in Fort St. John was defaced, with racist epithets—including a pair of swastikas—scrawled on the front of the building. Now the District of Tumbler Ridge has released a public statement to “Condemn all Forms of Racism, Discrimination, and Hate Speech.” It reads as follows: “THAT the District
Either use of the swastika implies there are actual nazis among us, or it implies there are people so very tone deaf that they don’t realize what they’ve associated themselves with in this place and time, even if they only saw it as a prank.
Either use of the swastika implies there are actual nazis among us, or it implies there are people so very tone deaf that they don’t realize what they’ve associated themselves with in this place and time, even if they only saw it as a prank.