Canada's Ugly Secret

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My thoughts while reading:

Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission has released its findings into more than a century of abuse in Indian Residential Schools. Between the 1880s and 1990s 150,000 aboriginal children were sent to institutions where they were stripped of their language and culture...

"Oh boy here we go, another sob story by liberal hippies giving us yet another dose of overblown white guilt for having the temerity to demand a unified language and-

Many faced emotional, physical and sexual abuse.

"Oh. So less 'Save the culture' whining and more 'Oranges and Sunshine' Skeletons in the closet. This might actually be interesting

Reads to the end.

"Never mind. This is Exhibit A to the rule 'presentation matters'. They really couldn't have found someone less dramatic and sermonising to write this? Christ, apparantly an actual genocide isnt enough it has to be a 'Cultural Genocide' as if that somehow made it more damning."



I wish the article had mentioned exactly what these '94 recommendations, really pre-conditions to true reconciliation' were, if the Government is only willing to agree to one I cannot imagine they are as reasonable and rightous as the writer apparantly thinks they are.