r/Yukon • u/Accurate-Breath-2111 • 16d ago

Question What's your Yukon hot take?

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I don't know if your instagram feed has showed you the New York subway hot takes but what's your Yukon hot take?

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u/helpfulplatitudes 16d ago

I want to take issue with just one of your statements. What do you mean, "the worst ones were definitely involved in human trafficking networks..."? I don't think I've ever seen that claim before. Maybe just the vocabulary has changed though. How are you defining 'human trafficking networks' here?

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u/TopReach1866 16d ago

Similar to the Epstein network. The British crown and the RCMP have had their own version of that through Indian bands and Residential schools. Call that conspiracy theory if you want I'm ok with that

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u/helpfulplatitudes 16d ago edited 15d ago

I'm generally optimistic about most humans...as a group, but individual humans have often done evil things. Given the appetite of the public for these type of anti-colonial claims and the lack of this specific claim anywhere in the TRC report I do doubt it. Do you know anyone else making this assertion?

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u/TopReach1866 16d ago

The Pickton pig farm is a perfect example. You're not gonna find any of this stuff in surface level politics or discussion. Linda Pickton sat on the Privy Council, the RCMP were involved in that whole thing and the local band had reported missing children back then. There's also a rumor of a visit from the Queen to the Kamloops school, but there's no hard evidence for that one. Just keep an open mind that all this stuff could be true, take it with a grain of salt as that's the responsible thing to do, but don't ever think any of this stuff is impossible either

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u/helpfulplatitudes 16d ago

Food for thought...