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Unless an out-group was being kept in a low social class on the basis of their ethnic identity. The entire residential school system was about ethnic identity -
by jtode 4y ago
Unless an out-group was being kept in a low social class on the basis of their ethnic identity. The entire residential school system was about ethnic identity - removing theirs and making them take on ours, by taking children away from their families and handing them over to religious authorities.
There's a whole bunch of people in this discussion thread who are clearly not Canadian and clearly not informed about this, who seem to believe they're railing against appropriating an issue for political points, by appropriating one of our most shameful national issues (and implicitly denying it, however artfully) in order to make political points.
- jollybean 4y agoThe people railing are Canadian, and they are doing so because they know they have been lied to by the press. The 'problem' are those who continue to misrepresent the situation and fail to understand for some reason (especially after been given the facts) that this is going on. Sending kids to boarding school where mostly people learned to speak English and do basic math - is not the same as sending kids to camps to kill them. The liars want to have us believe they're essentially or historically the same thing, when there's no truth there at all.
- pyuser583 4y agoThis post is about a false fact pattern being amplified to support a narrative. This false fact pattern is being amplified on both sides of the border. My local American newspaper is trying very hard to tell horror stories about local Indian schools.