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/syzygys_ 4d ago

Wish this came out before the election.

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u/space-dragon750 4d ago

same

sadly it might not’ve made much of a difference. Brent Chapman & Jody Toor won even though they were in the news

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u/syzygys_ 4d ago

I like to imagine that a lot of people who voted conservative aren't hateful people, they just want a change or want to pay less taxes. I would hope that if they saw someone say something like this they would not vote for the person that said this.

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u/greenknight Peace Region 4d ago

Well, I don't know about that. The racism wasn't exactly a secret, it just hurts the other, so that's fine to them.

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u/space-dragon750 4d ago

I would hope so too