This documentary is made by Carey Newman, the son of one of the survivors.
https://humanrights.ca/story/picking-up-the-pieces-the-makin...
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or maybe John Cena cares about upsetting a large part of his audience, he apologised in decent Mandarin after all. It's unsurprising that imperialist media would twist a perfectly normal apology video into something sinister. If you talk to people both on the mainland and in Taiwan, you'll find the vast majority consider Taiwan to be a part of China. Many have family on the other side of the Taiwan strait, after all.…
I agree that John Cena wants to appeal to his fan base in China precisely because China is a growing market for goods and services -- as I said earlier. I didn't mean to link to that more critical article, I just picked the first one that showed up in Google search for John Cena apology.
The very fact that the first thing you found paints Cena’s action as sinister confirms my point that the mainstream is very eager to spin any challenge to US hegemony as evil. Should that not make one question the narrative being pushed?
At least go read their stated sources, like Zenz’ report. It’s full of unsupported facts and egregious (and convenient) translation mistakes. Then read up on the man himself and his motivations.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
And this, the last but one paragraph: > The Kamloops school operated between 1890 and 1969. The federal government took over the operation from the Catholic Church to operate as a day school until it closed in 1978. How weird that all the most relevant info, was at the bottom.
That’s usually where you put the most important info: in the conclusion. The initial summary might include it as well, or be more broad.
Tell them what you're going to tell them, tell them, tell them what you told them.
In a news article, you put the key facts first, then get into the detail. A summary is optional. Journal articles are different.
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#144This is not an isolated incident. These schools operated all across Canada, were created specifically to "de-savage the indians", had zero accountability, and almost destroyed an entire people. These kids were taken from their parents, imprisoned in these places, and endured endless abuse for their formative years. And this went on until 1994 in some places! This is Canada's great shame, and we've barely scratched th…
Almost destroyed an entire people? I think they where pretty successful in that regard.
Might makes right destroyed entire ways of life in North America.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suspect you'll find relatively few people who will use "genocide" to refer to the eradication of a culture without concurrent mass killing of the members of that culture.
I think the most notable genocides have involved murder, but that doesn't mean they all have. Look at what is happening to the Uyghur people in China; it appears to be more of an operation to destroy their culture and identity than to slaughter the people, at least at the moment.
> I think the most notable genocides have involved murder,
They usually do, but sometimes the overt murder stops while the genocide continues. If, and this is debatable, an endpoint could be drawn for the Native Ameeican Genocide in the US, its definitely long after outright killing based on being a Native not assimilated into the White society stopped being an organized practice.
Re: Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in British Columbia
#146This is not an isolated incident. These schools operated all across Canada, were created specifically to "de-savage the indians", had zero accountability, and almost destroyed an entire people. These kids were taken from their parents, imprisoned in these places, and endured endless abuse for their formative years. And this went on until 1994 in some places! This is Canada's great shame, and we've barely scratched th…
The Documentary film "Picking Up the Pieces: The Making of the Witness Blanket" is very sad, but it has first hand accounts from some of the former students.
https://humanrights.ca/story/picking-up-the-pieces-the-makin...
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#147This is one incident among many, but it has less to do with indigenous children as it does with any system wherein the accounting of "disconnected" children is left to that system. Tuam, County Galway ... eight hundred infants with missing graves. St Mary's Cemetery in Lanark, four hundred left in a single mass grave. In Germany, nuns pimping out orphans. The Sisters of Mercy scandal. I could go on. Bluntly put, when…
And yet one of the less-emphasized progressive tenets is the destruction of the family, because (e.g. in Marxism) the “family” is part of the bourgeoisie and must be abolished along with them.
Re: Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in British Columbia
#148This is one incident among many, but it has less to do with indigenous children as it does with any system wherein the accounting of "disconnected" children is left to that system. Tuam, County Galway ... eight hundred infants with missing graves. St Mary's Cemetery in Lanark, four hundred left in a single mass grave. In Germany, nuns pimping out orphans. The Sisters of Mercy scandal. I could go on. Bluntly put, when…
It seems like the Catholic Church is often (always?) somehow involved in these systemic child abuse/mass grave stories and it’s mind-boggling to me that we continue to allow an organization with that kind of track record to take responsibility for caring for and placing at-risk children.
No, it’s people. It’s always people. That even the church carries out such atrocities says more about humanity than it does about the church.
Re: Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in British Columbia
#149This is not an isolated incident. These schools operated all across Canada, were created specifically to "de-savage the indians", had zero accountability, and almost destroyed an entire people. These kids were taken from their parents, imprisoned in these places, and endured endless abuse for their formative years. And this went on until 1994 in some places! This is Canada's great shame, and we've barely scratched th…
Almost destroyed an entire people? I think they where pretty successful in that regard.
almost, but not completely. there are still First Nations tribes, they still practice their cultures, the languages are critically endangered but many still have a few (usually elder) speakers.
I volunteer working to revitalize a Pacific Northwestern Indian language. there's still hope, and still ways to help.
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#150I'd like to see the Church and other Christian institutions who ran these schools held accountable for their crimes in my lifetime. They killed and abused children, that is tautological.