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Prizes and rewards are given out for being the biggest victim, so it's natural that people want to out-victim one another for additional resources. Anytime there's resources at stake, people will do what they can to gain them. In Canada it's so perverse that it seems like everyday someone is outed, after gaining a prestigious position, for not having any indigenous heritage at all. But, they used that status to rapidly gain resources over competitors.

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Given the incentives, it's an obvious outcome. This occurs in the United States as well.

34% of white Americans who applied to colleges or universities admit to lying about being a racial minority on their application

48% of people who lied claimed to be Native American

3/4 of people who faked being a racial minority on their applications were accepted by the colleges to which they lied

https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/57...

This is it; they're still the hero in their narrative, it's just that this hero overcomes massive victimization.

That they use the victimization as power over others may not even be consciously acknowledged by them, or others.

This is the problem with favoring equity over equality. Where equality’s aim is to reduce all bias in decision making, equity’s aim is to introduce bias for the benefit of a subset of the population. Naturally, people will vie to be in the population that the equity culture’s bias favors.

Which is sad because natives were massively victimized by the Canadian government. It's not exactly a prize or reward, more like a few peanuts being thrown at them by the government to shut up and bugger off.

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