General Remains of 215 children found at former Catholic residential school for natives in Canada

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Residential schools did a lot of good for the natives too.it might be an unpopular opinion these days but they weren't just built to rape and kill people.they took illiterate kids living in 3rd world conditions and taught them how to read and write.
At a conceptual level they were a misguided attempt to help natives

but many or all of them were terribly mismanaged, and acted inhumanely toward their charges.
 

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And killed them if they were bad or didn't learn.
They were shitty to them for sure but it was also an era when they were shitty to everyone. Kids got the strap in school right up in to the 80s . Catholic schools probably best kids even longer .a lot of this took place in an era when people still died from common diseases .there could be a lot of reasons for the graves
 

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Residential schools did a lot of good for the natives too.it might be an unpopular opinion these days but they weren't just built to rape and kill people.they took illiterate kids living in 3rd world conditions and taught them how to read and write.
I fundamentally disagree with forcing standards on others, but to your point throughout this I don't hear "returning to the lives we lived in the 1800s" being presented as a solution.
 

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My grandmother always had a pic of the old bird hanging in the dining room but they were right from old blighty
 

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At a conceptual level they were a misguided attempt to help natives

but many or all of them were terribly mismanaged, and acted inhumanely toward their charges.
That's the same story all over.

Really there is no good outcome when a technological civilization meets a far less developed one. They cannot exist side by side in a parallel society, and there's no way to bring them into modern society while keeping anything crucial to their traditional way of life.

On that note, here's a native American looking at a newly completed railroad in California. The end of his world and his people's way of life, and he knows it.



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I wanna see how the govt actually deals with this.they are trying to make this a white man bad issue but the churches and the govt did this. Who may you ask was the government ? Well the Liberal party has been in power for 80 percent of our history and Trudy's dad was in charge for the like 15 years.they are going to have to spin this good
 

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I wanna see how the govt actually deals with this.they are trying to make this a white man bad issue but the churches and the govt did this. Who may you ask was the government ? Well the Liberal party has been in power for 80 percent of our history and Trudy's dad was in charge for the like 15 years.they are going to have to spin this good
Moreover, these were considered to be progressive views at the time.
 

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I wanna see how the govt actually deals with this.they are trying to make this a white man bad issue but the churches and the govt did this. Who may you ask was the government ? Well the Liberal party has been in power for 80 percent of our history and Trudy's dad was in charge for the like 15 years.they are going to have to spin this good
Is this really a liberal/conservative thing for you?

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isn't everything a liberal/conservative thing for you?
No.

Seems a bit stupid to shit on a liberal government for their actions decades ago, though - is he trying to suggest that the conservatives of the time would have been more accommodating to the native people and their culture? If he's not trying to argue that, then there's not much point bitching about the liberals then, is there.

or is it only not a liberal/conservative thing when the progressives do pure evil?
Check out the "Insane Woke Twitter Bullshit" thread, which I started and have put dozens of examples of liberal fuckwits being fuckwits.

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No.

Seems a bit stupid to shit on a liberal government for their actions decades ago, though - is he trying to suggest that the conservatives of the time would have been more accommodating to the native people and their culture? If he's not trying to argue that, then there's not much point bitching about the liberals then, is there.



Check out the "Insane Woke Twitter Bullshit" thread, which I started and have put dozens of examples of liberal fuckwits being fuckwits.

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you're deflecting. How hard is it to acknowledge that progressive ideals are routinely perverted to pure evil?

that's not the same as calling out 'woke twitter' shit-libs.
 

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you're deflecting. How hard is it to acknowledge that progressive ideals are routinely perverted to pure evil?
I don't think it's fair to say they're perverted to pure evil. That's the logical conclusion of an ideology that "knows what's best".
 

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wow. you sure got one over on me there with that gif.

i'm shook.
Yeah I sure took you to school, eh? Ruined your argument, elevated the conversation and proved beyond any doubt that I do in fact have a clue what I'm talking about. Pretty slick, right? ?

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