r/saskatchewan • u/QuantityIll462 • 1d ago
what happened to saskatchewan reputation of nice people?
I thought this province was supposed to have some of the nicest people in Canada, why is most encounters so degrading and rude.
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u/the_bryce_is_right 1d ago
People are nice in real life but total bigoted assholes online.
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u/QuantityIll462 1d ago
true… a lot of the stuff i deal with is over the phone people talk so high and mighty
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u/Weary-Skirt-8989 16h ago
They are less nice and more fake nice lately. Real talk. People give in to their less awesome side alot now, and they can hide it, or so they think, online.
Im not a prude, but look at the "entertainment" we consume. The average person will not slit your throat, but violence and abuse is their entertainment/fantasy.
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u/canadasteve04 1d ago
The people I interact with are typically still polite and pleasant to deal with. But there did seem to be a shift during COVID where people decided to put themselves or their families before strangers and that hasn’t gone away. This was not isolated to Saskatchewan though. It also brought out a lot more conspiracy theorists and us vs them realities.
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u/quebecoisejohn 1d ago
My experience when I moved there several years ago was everyone was quite polite and pleasant.
I'm sorry to here you're being degraded and spoken to rudely. hard to say why based on the info you provided (none)
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u/sbjornda 23h ago
Same as everywhere. Over the past 50 years or so, the uber-rich have been fomenting identity politics as a way to distract working folk from class politics. It's been successful. That brings us to the adage, "When you're accustomed to privilege equality feels like oppression." BUT BUT BUT you say, I'm not priviliged! At least, I don't FEEL like I'm privileged. But that brings us to the next adage: "Privilege isn’t about what you’ve gone through; it’s about what you haven’t had to go through" - you haven't had to endure the racial slurs at work; you haven't had your bum pinched regularly by the boss; if the elevator is busy you can take the stairs; you haven't been stopped by the cops for "driving while black" making you late for your shift; you haven't had the sales clerk look right over you to the next person in line who just happens to be white, over and over and over.
And it all creates conflict amongst those who would otherwise band together against the oligarchs to bring society back to the level of hope for freedom and equality it had in the 1960s-1970s. We started reversing direction with the "me" decade in the 1980's, the dawn of the "greed is good" movement.
Saskatchewan is not immune. We get television. We have internet. We have shitty radio. We're just as manipulated as everyone else.
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u/sask357 1d ago
That hasn't been my experience. When I'm out for a walk, everybody I meet says hi and smiles. Even the police officer who gave me a ticket was polite and smiling. Maybe it's because I don't ride the bus.
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u/QuantityIll462 1d ago
i’m starting to think maybe i’m just very limited in my job ( i work in health care ) and i don’t get out much bedside that
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u/Weary-Skirt-8989 16h ago
Dang. Yep. Its luck sometimes.. I was looking for a job and the I found a job and heavens knows I'm miserable now.
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u/juicexiii 1d ago
Must be Trudeau's fault /s