What exactly was compassionate about the camp cleanup?

i appreciate your response. i apologise for coming off as ignorant – rereading my entry, i see how it can be interpreted as hateful. that is not my intention. the frustration i was intending most to highlight is the increasing divisiveness of people into numerous exclusive subgroups. along with that has become a particular vilification of light skinned folk, long called white(y), and now in effect reduced to people of noncolour – as all other skin hues are proudly united under the flag of “people of colour.” has this not further entrenched division, an us and them outlook that is daily imbued into our contemporary social fabric?
btw – you seem to have a particular perspective, likely shared by many that might be referred to as apologists, that seems to feel a need to single out and demonise white skin: do you honestly believe that no other “identifiable” groups are without their share of pedophiles, rapists, murderers?
my entry also wished to note that it does not at all make sense to forever and a day simply blame another group for one’s issues whilst further taking what seems a too passive approach with regard to addressing the issues that persist. and then, rather than create an at the roots plan/community approach for support and healing, there appears to be an indifference toward, if not an outright encouragement, that forces the most difficult on reserves to simply go and get lost. does that then not throw those most hurting and vulnerable right back into the hands of the society that one is blaming for one’s issues? is that not at all akin to, say, sending female victims of violence to a place administered by men?
frustration: how long does the blame game go on, where one is ever being the victim and pointing an ongoing blame elsewhere? in fact, has the planet not always been about oppressors and victims? has not every peoples, every race, conquered and/or attempted to conquer another? not at all suggesting that that is how it best needs to be. just pointing to the reality that it is not, nor has it not only been, only white folk that behave unacceptably.
get a good look at history – forever to date – peoples conquer for greed, ego, hate, power and wealth. even today, our “heroes” – the very reflection of what we look up to – are mostly a pathetic lot: many with particular and even peculiar talents, though mostly noted for superficial stuff; and then too many are but egotists, greed mongers, sociopaths, even psychopaths…primarily concerned with their fame, power, enrichment and self service.
i note all this because in today’s stupid rendering of history it seems only the light hued peoples have done and do as much; all the rest, the exclusive groups now calling themselves the people of colour, present as though those groups have only ever been god’s quiet and innocent children, victims all… at the bloodied hands of the people of noncolour. again, take a real and honest look at history, and even right now, present times, acknowledge there is violence, oppression, hate, suspicion, greed, self service and it is all alive and frothing in every race and culture at every time and virtually every place on this planet where humans reside… much as it always has been. only now, rather than acknowledge the reality and seek to address the madness, we have only come to create another scapegoat, the people of noncolour.
what makes the present practice of exclusionary divisions and subdivisions all the more nasty and nonsensical, in canada and in lethbridge, is the reality that few canadians are alive today that had anything at all to do with the decisions and outcomes associated with the racism and bigotry and trampling of cultures that came with colonialism? the apologists that buy into the shaming spewing over from the shamers are thus all the harder to comprehend. i am sure we each have at least something for which we are or have been ashamed; but, colonialism? i am most certainly disgusted by colonialism, and much else with regard to how humans behave one to the other, and toward the natural world. but is it accurate and just to believe all people today of noncolour are guilty of, and have to wear shame for, colonialism? nonsense.
ironically, here we are, all alive today, as we sit by and watch much the same old continue to transpire throughout the planet; only, it is ever the moreso wicked. we now have already long accepted the plundering, extincting and poisoning and homogenising of not just the planet’s sundry peoples and cultures – mostly into being digital and consumerist zombies – but we are now further doing as much to the natural systems that sustain our very existence. do we not too joyfully rejoice in globalism? do we not fail to see it for what it really is: a colonialism that is now ever the more damning? look more honestly still, and see that all that are buying are indeed almost all humans on the planet everywhere that can get their hands on the money they so feel they need so as to consume all that they desire.
let me state all that ever the more pithily: if we were to eliminate every person of noncolour, or even simply subjugate them all, will that put an end to any of hate, envy, ego, murder, rape, pedophilia, wars, power and greed mongering, the poisoning, desecration, and destruction of the planet’s flora, fauna and natural systems….?
so that i make this much clear: everyone has a right to be in lethbridge. let us acknowledge, as well, that lethbridge has long already had its underbelly. perhaps, this is what makes the recent spillover of so many more peoples in need all the more difficult to deal with, as we are now over saturated by people in need.
that said, no one has the right to infringe on the rights of another. i am not concerned with skin colour, race, religion – it is all mostly exploited and, in effect, an illusion. wherever we all came from, is it not the same place? should it not be expected that we may return to such a space? do people truly believe that we are at our essence merely the race and skin colour and religion and ethnicity into which we are born and conditioned?
be and experience what you feel you need in order to grow and evolve. but, do not do any of that in the context of special privilege and exclusivity and superiority, nor at the expense of the rights of another.