Oil pipelines can be positive for indigenous people. Here’s how
Link to the other article right at the top
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- May 2019
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Khelsilem is a counsellor for the Squamish Nation
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This is a right that we have never surrendered, and it is a right we will continue to defend
Violent/war-evoking language.
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a continued betrayal of promises
Strong emotional language.
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Why take the risk?
Since this is an opinions column, there is no answer to this unless the reader already has one. For an uninformed, international reader, there isn't really a reason to "take the risk." On the flip side, a lot of reasons have been given to not.
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Can we trust governments, or a corporation, to have the best interests of Squamish people and the residents of our province and city at heart through that whole time?
Rhetorical question answered above. No.
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A single incident would render the beautiful beaches of the city, surrounding islands and Vancouver Island uninhabitable. It would kill the Salish Sea and destroy our Squamish territory.
"Beautiful" vs violent words like "kill" and "destroy" create conflict.
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By the way
The tone is almost conversational; it's like listening to a very passionate friend complain. It has the effect of making readers sympathetic to your cause.
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promised
Repetition of "promise" hammers in the violation that Khelsilem sees this pipeline to be.
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That’s the entire rationale.
Dumbs down the opposition.
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You might remember Vancouver from the 2010 Winter Olympics
Readers are international.
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The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project is no ordinary pipeline
All significant points pointed out in the first paragraph:
- Hereditary territory of Squamish People
- Salish Sea wildlife
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hereditary chiefs are “subverting the democratic will of their people.”
What authority is more valid: elected band council or hereditary leaders? Not clearly answered here.
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The Mounties were enforcing a court order to remove the blockade and give employees of Coastal GasLink access to disputed land to prepare for construction of a natural-gas pipeline to the coast. While the checkpoint was situated off-reserve, it was located on ancestral lands of the Wet’suwet’en, which the traditional leadership lays claim to. That leadership is partly made up of thirteen hereditary chiefs, all of whom oppose the pipeline. This is in contrast to the elected band council, which approved it.
There seems to be a conflict between these elected band councils and hereditary chiefs
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How much of that is due to the constant drag on women’s progress caused by men’s invasions of their physical space? It’s hard to know. But a great way to find out would be for men to stop it.
Another interesting ending. "It's hard to know" is a cop-out qualifier. But there is still a hard stance taken, which is that these actions are harmful and need to end.
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Women make about 81 percent of what men make in America today — black, Latina, and Native American women make significantly less than that. As Taub notes, women are less likely than men to make partner at a law firm, or to get tenure at a university. And although women won more seats in Congress than ever in 2018, they still make up less than a quarter of the legislature.
Moves from sort of hypothetical situations as evidence to actual numbers and impacts of those hypothetical situations.
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“Even if his behavior wasn’t violent or sexual, it was demeaning and disrespectful,” Flores wrote. “I wasn’t attending the rally as his mentee or even his friend; I was there as the most qualified person for the job.”
This is now backing up the second claim that effects matter as much as intentions.
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Meanwhile, on Monday, Amy Lappos told the Hartford Courant that Biden had grabbed her by the head and rubbed noses with her in 2009. “It wasn’t sexual,” she said. However, she told the paper, “There’s a line of respect. Crossing that line is not grandfatherly. It’s not cultural. It’s not affection. It’s sexism or misogyny.”
Second main piece of evidence: Amy Lappos. Both start with their quotes.
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Defenders of Biden say he had good intentions. But effects matter too.
Headings, but also arguments. Another stasis-destabilization.
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After the Access Hollywood tape was released in 2016, showing Donald Trump bragging about his ability to grab women “by the pussy,” Amanda Taub of the New York Times wrote about sexual harassment and assault as a kind of tax on women — something that costs us time, energy, and money, as we’re forced to choose between defending our bodily autonomy and keeping peace with the men upon whom our careers often depend.
Another piece of evidence that is brought in here and there.
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“It does matter and it does affect us,” said Lucy Flores, who wrote at the Cut last week that Biden kissed her on the back of the head at a campaign event in 2014, told Vox. “You’re constantly navigating and changing your own behavior in order to avoid those kinds of situations.”
Next couple paragraphs are the first evidence: Lucy Flores.
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But such behavior can still have a pernicious effect on women, a constant, low-level distraction that can hold women back in their work and in their lives.
Destabilization and central claim: these actions are not harmless and actually affect women negatively.
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But there’s something crucial missing from the narrative that Biden is just an affectionate guy.
Destabilization.
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Former vice president and presumptive presidential candidate Joe Biden “is extremely affectionate, extremely flirtatious in a completely safe way,” Mika Brzezinski said on Monday’s Morning Joe.
This is sort of the "stasis" — that Joe Biden is harmless and that his use of physical contact is harmless.
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But because he allegedly comes from the past, it’s fine to give a full airing to your bigotry against those kinds of people.
I think this is a strawman. I don't think anyone is attacking Joe Biden only because he is an establishment dem. I think the main arguments are based on women who have come forward with their experiences and Biden's inadequate response. Dismissing all that as "young kids hating old men" is dishonest.
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the most socially awkward generation
He frames this as a generational thing, but I don't see any evidence of this. It seems that there is criticism coming from a range of ages.
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I think there’s a lot of mythmaking about how Biden simply represents a bygone style of politics that was common for men of his generation.
I agree. But he does represent the establishment, doesn't he? Just because it's a myth doesn't mean it's not true.
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Again, Biden’s habits are unappealing to me
Qualifies multiple times while still ostensibly defending him.
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Beto thanks his wife, and the thronging wokesters shout the equivalent of “2319!” and bust out the cultural hazmat equipment.
Disregarding his argument, this is a weird reference to be making. I don't expect that his audience is Disney movie watching. Are they? Is that why he felt the need to link it below? Who the hell is this an appeal to?
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They celebrate women who wear the hijab.
Only one example and it's this. Doesn't that suggest some equivalence to Biden's actions? It ultimately just feels like a really shoe-horned in appeal to his core reader base.
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Progressives are quick to defend the customs and mores of non-Western peoples.
My immediate reaction is: "Are you going to talk about moral relativism and use that to excuse him? Or go the other way and say because of this, morality is objective and then go full ethnocentric?" I immediately have pivoted into an argumentative mode.
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Men, especially powerful men, should not take liberties touching anybody, but especially women
ISN'T THAT EXACTLY WHAT ME TOO IS????
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occasionally using words borrowed without attribution
Plagiarism thing that none of the other articles mentioned.
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Now I want to be clear — not in the Scientologist sense, but in the expository sense.
He's really trying to be funny. And punching down.
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I’m sitting about a block north of the Trump Hotel on Central Park West smoking a cigar on Thursday afternoon trying to write this “news”letter. If seven-day units of time were people, this one would be wearing a Millard Fillmore mask, slathering itself with salmon viscera and running through the nearby polar-bear enclosure at the Central Park Zoo shouting “Trieste belongs to the Italians!” — which is my way of saying it’s been a crazy week.
What a way to start a column. First he shows off and then he gives a really weird, vivid visual description.
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(And victims of wind-noise cancer everywhere)
Goldberg is an anti-Trumper. He thinks this gives him credibility.
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Acceptable Bigotries
Snappy. I can't tell if this article was written in good faith. I don't see any reason for Jonah to be defending Biden, so I assume this was written in good faith. The humor makes me feel like no, but I'm not the target audience. I assume Jonah is just appealing to his audience with the humor. This is primarily an attack on Jonah's perceived progressivism and not really a defense of Biden, though it to some degree acts as such.
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