# I Pit Martin Hyde

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**Created:** [June 16, 2021, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde/944407 "2021-06-16T16:18:26Z")\
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> [@Gorsnak](#):
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> He makes various factually correct statements about the residential school system (and admittedly a few statements applicable to the similar US systems that aren’t applicable to the Canadian systems) with the intent of clarifying the factual record and he’s piled upon for minimizing genocide.

It all started with this factually **incorrect** statement about Canadian residential schools.

> [@I pit DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/981):
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> Under the formal international law definition of genocide no, this sort of thing doesn’t quite fit.

His insistence that Canada’s treatment of the First Nations doesn’t satisfy the UN definition of genocide, when it unambiguously does, is very straightforward genocide denial.

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