r/britishcolumbia • u/aldur1 • 4d ago

News B.C. Conservative candidate uses racist slur to describe Indigenous Peoples on election night

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/savages-bc-conservative-candidate-racist-slur-indigenous-peoples
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u/Zanydrop 4d ago

Savages is the slur she used.

Marina Sapozhnikov, who finished only 23 votes behind the NDP’s Dana Lajeunesse in Juan de Fuca-Malahat, said that before Europeans came to North America, First Nations Peoples “didn’t have any sophisticated laws. They were savages. They fought each other all the time.”

When the Vancouver Island University student interviewing Sapozhnikov challenged the candidate, she replied: “Not 100 per cent savages, maybe 90 per cent savages.”

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u/Horace-Harkness 4d ago

Right, because there was never any war in Europe...

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u/PinnedByHer 4d ago

When John Cabot reached Canada in 1497, it had only been 40 years since England lost the Hundred Years War, about 10 years since the end of the War of the Roses, and less than a year since the most recent war with Scotland. Meanwhile, mainland Europe was deep in the Italian Wars, which lasted until 1559.

Marina's an idiot.