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A review by vicambulate
The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill
2.0
As a book recalling events of History, albeit at a frighteningly rapid pace, that can't help but make me wonder what he chooses to leave out, the level of bias is verging on absurd. Scrap that. From about halfway through I found myself realising that I was reading a Propaganda leaflet.
Yes, the colonisation was a poorly managed free-for-all that severely impacted and destroyed the native people. I get that, I really do, but the idealisation of Native Indian violence whilst condemning every other race's method is something I find a little hard to swallow.
The bias wouldn't bother me; Gord Hill as a man with Native Indian descent has a right to be biased towards his own people, but his arguments which are completely valid aren't even written that well. There are large sections which read as though a whiny teenager wrote them rather than a seasoned activist who, as someone trying to fight a cause, should be more eloquent and persuasive than he manages.
Yes, the colonisation was a poorly managed free-for-all that severely impacted and destroyed the native people. I get that, I really do, but the idealisation of Native Indian violence whilst condemning every other race's method is something I find a little hard to swallow.
The bias wouldn't bother me; Gord Hill as a man with Native Indian descent has a right to be biased towards his own people, but his arguments which are completely valid aren't even written that well. There are large sections which read as though a whiny teenager wrote them rather than a seasoned activist who, as someone trying to fight a cause, should be more eloquent and persuasive than he manages.