It’s awful easy to talk shit from Canada, which you aren’t even brave enough to name

Why do I have to name it? To be fair I wasn't sure if I did you'd know where it was on a mop.

A country that was still stealing native children and sending them to residential schools as late as 1996 and forced sterilizations into the 2010s.

Yup. A terrible thing Canada used to do. My brother and his family are Anishinaabe. My partner's best friend is Mi'kmaq. And while I take pride in my country finally doing what is right after so many years of horrible treatment of Indigenous cultures, I am forever disappointed it took as long as it did to finally begin to right the wrongs it did.

Did you know that America still has four operational residential schools in America, which have been handed over to the indigenous communities? And in 2007 the law was finally changed to discharge all remaining indigenous students in American residential schools?

Two years after Canada legalized gay marriage, you finally closed your last residential school. Our last school was shut down in 96. Yours was in 07.

My guess is you aren't aware of that.

I love my country. I served Canada. That doesn't mean I ignore the wrongs Canada has done and does do. Maybe you should try that.

Did you think that was some sort of gotcha? That Canada did horrible things to Indigenous people? Need I remind you what America did in the same era? I must have struck a nerve that you're okay with killing people abroad who look different than you, but you tow the line at killing ICE because they're also white?

You wouldn’t do a thing if you were in my shoes and no amount of tough talk on the Internet will change that. My guess is you aren’t even aware of the stuff I mentioned.

I grew up going to Pow Wows. I slept under tee-pees with my brother, sharing furs for sleep in the middle of December. I sat next to him during firekeeping ceremonies and learned about aboriginal cultures at a young age. We are not born from the same family but our family are forever linked. My parents view him and his sister as their kids, and my family as shared family. His sister literally gets upset if I don't refer to her as sister, and my brother gets upset if my partner doesn't refer to him as their brother.

My partner and I had a vow ceremony 6 months after we married and my brother hosted the event and I wanted him to share his language with us during it. His late father saw me as a son and taught me so much about indigenous cultures. I was never more heartbroken about a family member dying in my life than my brother's dad passing away.

I literally grew up surrounded by it.

So another complete wiff on your part, eh? Do you need a shovel to keep digging your own bullshit? I get this is uncomfortable for you to admit that you and Americans as a whole are cowards. It's easy to fight brown people on the other side of the world, but it takes courage to defend your country at home. It's a lot, I get it. Killing people who look like you who are killing other people who look like you. It must be a horrible position to be in.

If only you were ever experienced in a firefight before.