The problem isn't that bad things can't happen in both reality and fiction. My objection obviously isn't to historical fiction, it's to fiction that rewrites a real history so that its victims are now a different group of people, or include a different group of people. It's really fucking obvious you didn't actually mean First Nations players in your comment, which as you said yourself, was adding a non-content heavy "let's link this to the history of colonialism" about a general discussion that was definitely more clearly linked to white Canadians than it was to First Nations people (race wasn't specified, but the general group of hockey players is largely white, and the conversation sprang from a discussion of Crosby/Malkin). That shouldn't have to be something that is teased out in the "minutiae," because there's a huge difference between writing First Nations players into that story versus hockey players in general, and writing it with First Nations people (or at least POC who were also historically victimized in the process of colonialism) is the only way in which it's not terribly offensive.
I don't know why you feel the need to insult my knowledge of "two aspects" of Canadian history. The fact that I haven't chosen to write a dissertation in my comment has no bearing on the shittiness of yours. Honestly, if now you're saying "it'd obviously be the First Nations people," all you had to say is that now that you've actually given it some thought (obviously you hadn't if you call this sitting around poking at minutiae), you realize it this should be specifically about First Nations people, instead of this strawman, backpeddling bullshit where your critics just don't have the capacity of imagination to deal with the existence of historical fiction and "hockey players in general" is clearly supposed to be understood as "First Nations hockey players but not Crosby"... right... I'm not sure what "conclusion" you managed to come to all by yourself if you still haven't realized why it's gross to make race a "minutiae" in a fictional history of colonialism.
Re: Fic Discussion - an island entire of itself
I don't know why you feel the need to insult my knowledge of "two aspects" of Canadian history. The fact that I haven't chosen to write a dissertation in my comment has no bearing on the shittiness of yours. Honestly, if now you're saying "it'd obviously be the First Nations people," all you had to say is that now that you've actually given it some thought (obviously you hadn't if you call this sitting around poking at minutiae), you realize it this should be specifically about First Nations people, instead of this strawman, backpeddling bullshit where your critics just don't have the capacity of imagination to deal with the existence of historical fiction and "hockey players in general" is clearly supposed to be understood as "First Nations hockey players but not Crosby"... right... I'm not sure what "conclusion" you managed to come to all by yourself if you still haven't realized why it's gross to make race a "minutiae" in a fictional history of colonialism.