Indigene Abgeordnete sind „ekelhaft“ über die T-Shirt-Kampagne zur Leugnung von Internatsschulen
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/indigenous-mps-disgusted-by-residential-school-denialist-shirt-campaign/
Indigene Abgeordnete sind „ekelhaft“ über die T-Shirt-Kampagne zur Leugnung von Internatsschulen
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/indigenous-mps-disgusted-by-residential-school-denialist-shirt-campaign/
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Stealing (and paraphrasing) this comment that really sums up the seemingly endless Kamloops talk coming from the right:
We’ve had *over five years* of conservative media bitterly ruminating over how indigenous people may have received what they consider an excess of empathy over an (at best) unevenly reported-on story.
It’s grievance politics turned up to 11, but you don’t have any real grievances so you have to cling to this issue like it’s literally saving your life. Has to be one of the most frustrating and gross discourses we have in this country.
Edit: Missed a word.
What do the shirts say?
“The shirts depict phrases including “Still No Proof”, “Canada was built, not stolen”, “Dig Deeper,” and “You can’t handle the truth.”
Look, these are mega cringe, but none of these are ‘residential school denialist’ and it’s irresponsible of APTN to publish a headline like this.
These shirts are referring to the alleged unmarked graves (originally reported in media as ‘mass graves’) and how there still hasn’t been any proof they’re actually there (which is literally true).
The shirts do not deny that residential schools existed.
> “Still No Proof”, “Canada was built, not stolen”, “Dig Deeper,” and “You can’t handle the truth.”
I’m no fan of Truth and Reconciliation, as someone who advocates for unflinching equality over equity as the superior metric of social justice, but I didn’t think I’d see a day when the above slogans were being worn and embraced.
Then again, I never thought I’d live to see the day when we would try to criminalize questioning various details about residential schools.
These sure are polarized times…
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I seriously don’t get why this is still a thing. Do they want to dig up all the bodies to prove what? That kids died at residential schools? That they were mistreated? That’s already proven. Complaining about wrong numbers is like saying only 300 thousand people were killed in the Rwandan Genocide versus the 500-700K that did. It’s pedantic quibbling over numbers rather than talking about the really shitty thing that happened.