And here we have the apologist crap about how these people are “long dead” The implication being that we should just forget about what happened, bury the past and don’t talk about it.
What kind of asshole does shit like this? An asshole like you.
Why do you mention “long dead”? People can actually see what you type. Asshole.
Indeed, which means the many times you snip just small parts of what I say to alter the full meaning in context, is on display for everyone as well.
Why do you think we should just forget about what happened? You’re the one who doesn’t want to talk about it, learn about its history, actually study it in any meaningful way. I wager you still haven’t read that T&C Commission report I linked to. I can only assume you’re projecting and since you continually lie about things I’ve said, those lies represent your core beliefs.
Why do you want this swept under the rug?
No, it’s the known liar calling other people liars who is projecting.
Something is being swept under the rug, alright. The fact is that you are using an incomplete report that allows you to ignore the final one, when you incorrectly assumed that parents were informed of the deaths of the kids.
I really don’t think that @Martin_Hyde is trying to downplay the severity of the actions taken here anymore.
I think that he is complaining that they didn’t go far enough.
Absolutely correct. He does not deny that genocide has taken place. He just wants the assimilation and destruction of indigenous culture to continue to it’s final conclusion.
He’s pretty much alligned wtih the words of Duncan Campbell Scott
It is readily acknowledged that Indian children lose their natural resistance to illness, by habitating so closely in these schools, and they die at a much higher rate than in their villages. But this alone, does not justify a change in the policy of this department, which is being geared towards the final solution of our Indian problem.
It is quite within the mark to say that 50% of the children who passed through these schools did not live to benefit from the education they received therein.”
Duncan Campbell Scott
Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs
1913-1932
Bolding mine.
I imagine if Duncan Campbell Scott were alive today, he’d be posting bullshit here like:
"I assume the parents knew. "
or
“If it was in the late 70s when I think the last of these ceased operations, that would raise a lot of questions. If it was in the 1890s, somewhat less.” (NOTE this specific point HAS ALREADY BEEN ANSWERED, but the bullshit about how long ago it was so never mind keeps popping up like a turd that wont’ be flushed)
It’s not genocide if anyone is left to complain.
Someone cryin.
Lot of lies and nonsense here.
Really? I only see three dots.
It is readily acknowledged that Indian children lose their natural resistance to illness, by habitating so closely in these schools, and they die at a much higher rate than in their villages. But this alone, does not justify a change in the policy of this department, which is being geared towards the final solution of our Indian problem.
It is quite within the mark to say that 50% of the children who passed through these schools did not live to benefit from the education they received therein.”
Duncan Campbell Scott
Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs
1913-1932
Fucking Genocide Apologist.
I would certainly think an investigation is warranted.
Someone lyin’.
You may wish to learn the actual facts.
The last residential school closed in 1996.
That’s right, 1996.
You may want to read the T&C report which mentions the history of burial policies and practices, and which is highly suggestive there were not significant burials at these schools in recent decades.
I would agree–I would also say that only after such investigations fines living perpetrators and clear evidence of crimes, should we start arresting people.
FWIW we are seeing news articles about these cemeteries because there is an ongoing investigation. In fact many of the details of this stuff have been in official published reports by the Canadian government for a number of years, including that thousands of Native children died in the schools and were buried there. The whole reason they started looking around the sites of closed schools with ground penetrating radar is in fact because of all the data out there suggesting lots of children were buried at these schools and the Canadian government’s report that there was no national policy on burials, and that in most places the schools operated there were no local policies for much of the school’s history. It was known from archived communications that no arrangements had been made for care and upkeep of the cemeteries (there are archived letters of school heads writing to the government to see if a graveyard could be maintained after the school had been closed–in the example cited in the Canadian report the school head’s own family was buried on the graveyard which is probably why it was important to him.)
None of that aplogizes for genocide. You’re just a crybaby that doesn’t like facts. Especially when they get in the way of your psychotic and unhinged bashing of Western culture.
LIar.