Stuff I’ve Been Reading
There are a lot of bad things going on in the world. This story about the rape survivor refferred to as “having sex” with her assailant. It’s an atrocity the way that article is written. It makes my skin crawl. It’s obviously rape to anybody with two functioning brain cells. Thirteen year olds can not consent to sex. Gross and creepy and wrong doesn’t even begin to cover it.
If that wasn’t enough to make you hate the world, there is this horror story about the Canadian government’s refusal to grant refugee status to war resisters. This hits especially close to home, considering that my boyfriend’s dad is a Vietnam draft dodger who escaped to Canada. I was just at a really great presentation put on with help from the Open Door Society. One of many things that I learned from them, was that the majority of immigrants coming to Canada are not refugees. They are immigrants with specialized training in professions that are in high demand. That’s why there are so many immigrant doctors and nurses in Canada. We simply poach talented people from around the world, rather than help our own people get the training to perform in the professions. We are closing the borders to refugees of all kinds, including war resistors.
