# 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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**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde/944407/215 "2021-07-13T12:50:19Z")

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Well, it’s spread out over several threads, but there are a few that stood out:

> [@Many hundreds of unmarked graves of Indigenous children discovered at Canadian residential schools](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/many-hundreds-of-unmarked-graves-of-indigenous-children-discovered-at-canadian-residential-schools/943674/133):
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> The reality is, while this is rightly seen as a form of monstrous cultural genocide by modern times, it can’t be entirely denied that it also lead to some positive outcomes for native children that were denied previous generations–specifically certain educational opportunities.

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> [@How is genocide defined, with an emphasis on cultural genocide?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-genocide-defined-with-an-emphasis-on-cultural-genocide/944198/173):
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> I think a better question is how many want to leave the reservation if they had the financial means to do so? The reservations are often not even anywhere remotely close to the tribe’s historic lands, and many of the people living on them probably would enjoy life elsewhere. Giving them that freedom is a virtuous act.

That basically says what was claimed - “let’s toss money at the problem and finish the job of getting them educated and off reservations and they’ll be better off that way. We’d be the good guys for doing it”

> [@Thing.Fish](#):
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> It was a long thread, and perhaps I missed something. Could you point out where he said that?

Also, it doesn’t take much searching above in this thread alone, but the rather lengthy defense of the Nazis sterilizing some and killing others (including Jews) was not only only factually incorrect but monstrous in itself and totally beyond the pale.

Note that I am not claiming he sides with the Nazis but this is the sort of behavior you are claiming is somewhat acceptable when compared to the total trolls - finding a kernel of corn in a pile of shit and claiming people should be glad MH at least offers corn.

Making some kind of narrow, technically correct claim about the Nazis (that wasn’t even narrowly, technically correct anyway) as evidence that the boards liberals are shrill, irrational scolds is not itself an example of rational, non-shrill behavior.

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