Decolonizing The Friendly Skies

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Some days I’m floored at how many nonsensical concepts can be packed into one article, but someone seems to have outdone themselves once again. These folks might want to take a step back from the race baiting mill and acknowledge the benefits of a technology that exists thanks to a culture of entrepreneurship and individual rights that they routinely conflate with colonial oppression.

“It’s really a decolonial effort where it returns the power into our hands so that we can again assert our own self-determination, determine how it unfolds within our region,” said Jacob Taylor.

“There have been no treaties signed for the sky, so Indigenous people have an inherent right to participate in the aerospace industry.”

34 Replies to “Decolonizing The Friendly Skies”

  1. Define “participate.” Become a pilot? Go to school and become an aerospace engineer? The choices are yours.

    1. Usually “participate” means to sit at the table and say “Where’s my money?”.

      This from others who have sat at the same table.

      1. “Usually “participate” means to sit at the table and say “Where’s my money?”.”

        Yes…and speaking of “where’s my money?”, when can the Canadian taxpayer expect the return of the *millions* of dollars given to the Kamloops Indian Band (among others) to supposedly investigate those 215 non-existent “child graves”?

  2. “It’s really a decolonial effort where it returns the power into our hands so that we can again assert our own self-determination, determine how it unfolds within our region,” said Jacob Taylor.

    Maybe they should be determined to save their fellow indigenous people from drugs, alcohol, and homelessness within their regions, first.

  4. Yes, the NFs invented the Thunderbird aeons ago. And let’s not forget Mohammad al Boeing, a muslim ancient Egyptian.

  5. This, from people who hadn’t the wit to roll a circle as a wheel. Whose idea of music is a monotonous one stroke pounding of a bone on a buffalo hide. Who fouled their campsites and then moved on, never establishing permanent homes.

    1. Helicopters can fly at night using IFR (instrument flight rules). It’s just that many helicopters aren’t equipment with the right instruments (e.g. radar) and most pilots aren’t trained for IFR.

      Drones probably can’t fly at night because they are line of sight only. Can’t see can’t fly.

      I flashed a smile at the use of drones to decolonize the sky. It’s like riding a horse to your Atco trailer to get away from the colonies.

  8. The only appropriate response to this nonsense is two words involving fornication and travel.

  9. Participate…?
    They could have done that since since Otto Lilienthal flew gliders….

    Am beyond sick n tired of INDIAN Industry…
    Gimme, gimme, gimme..
    Participate..??
    Get a F ing job & Pay yer own way

  10. So it wasn’t the lack of someone monitoring oxygen levels couple of weeks beforehand knowing it would take awhile to replenish. It was the lack of drones.

    1. Technology will apparently address every possible familial, societal and logistic dysfunction. Reminiscent of the noble effort made by the Clintons to provide island-wide cell service to Haiti, immediately after a devastating hurricane. Because when your home has blown away, the first thing you need is a cell phone. And the next thing you need are supplies flown in by an all-female aircrew.

    2. To be fair, supply in remote regions with hazardous weather is complex. A storm that delays a regular flight by a single day can have ripple effects all down the line. Distributed supply depots are the only real solution, but those are expensive.

      The real probem is that there’s no money for that, because there’s no good reason for anyone to live in these remote, inhospitable villages. There’s no resources and no economy, they’re kept afloat purely by government welfare.

  12. I don’t really have any problem with Inuit who are helping themselves, or so they claim. I commend them for their initiative. Really, I do!
    But are they REALLY helping themselves? Or are they getting a little financial support from the taxpayer? There’s the rub, eh?

    “When I think about decolonizing, I think about how we are dismantling the systems that are no longer working,” Fraser said.
    Ok, give me an example of what “systems” are “no longer functioning.” Just one, please. Still waiting…

    This is what bugs me about the indigenous claiming that they were held back because of colonization, or worse yet, their claims that the so-called “colonizers” practiced genocide against their people. (First of all, without the colonizers, these tribes would have probably killed themselves off with all the wars they have waged among themselves.) So I ask them, exactly where would they be without the technological advances brought forward by the so-called “colonizers?”

      1. “Held Back” from “potlatch” ceremonies where they sacrificed slaves to prove how rich they were?

      2. Held back from what, you ask?
        They’re trying to make the case that they were oppressed by the colonizers. I thought I made that point clear enough. My bad, I guess.

  13. They should be allowed to start up their own airline business which allows only natives to be passengers. The problem will resolve itself in short order.

  15. I thought the only way to get to most of these native communities was with a float plane.

    You’re telling me that in 100+ years there have been no indigenous Bush pilots or owners of some kind of freight and passenger service?

  16. The grievance industry mines white guilt with props such as these and is rewarded by a ruling class essentially in Stockholm Syndrome. This will continue until the progressives fully invert the inherent apartheid of the Indian Act and suffer the repercussions or a rational government eliminates the apartheid along with the Indian Act.

  17. Aviation is utterly unforgiving of stupid shit. No version of DIE is going to get along with aviation without consequences, up to and including flaming death. It doesn’t take long to weed out incompetent maintenance, air-crew, and pilots.

  19. Indigenous people have no claim to the sky.

    You might be able to lay some claim on what you physically controlled or occupied when a conflict arose. That also depends on who won the conflict, and what terms were defined at its end.

    North American Indigenous people couldn’t figure out the wheel and axle. They were generally stone age or early copper age people when the Europeans arrived.

    1. Hey, now… they were right on the verge of inventing the semiautomatic tomahawk when the colonizers showed up. Pffft! There went the plans, up in smoke.

  20. I have no beef with the natives.. They have a beef with me.. Seeing as I haven’t done anything to any native ever.. Excuse my attitude..

  21. Yup, let’s decolonize the air by flying a couple of Twin Otters made by… DeHavilland.

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