[ On the resident schools in Canada ]
The abuse aspects that went on in those schools was common in any school of that era (strapping, paddling, etc.) the government of Canada literally tries to modernize the aboriginal people so they could learn to function in a proper society. In that sense it did fail casue now all they do is blame Canada for their lives sucking even tho they still have every opportunity to do something with themselves.
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..and with that attitude, don't be surprised when you get the boot from Reddit, OP.
After all: with the abuse aspects that went on (by white rightists: r/Alt-Right, r/Physical_Removal, r/The-Donald etc), the admins of Reddit more than literally moderate the subnormal... things so they could learn to function in a proper society.
You know what you'll be admitting if you disagree with that site's punishment methods...!
A week or so ago, a bunch of people got upset over a First National tribe setting lobster traps and selling it. They were cutting wires to the traps and a building burned down.
Tell me again how they have every opportunity to do something with themselves?
Listen you racist swine, the last residential school was only closed down in 1996 which wasn't a long time ago. Residential schools were literally designed to "kill the Indian" in indigenous children by physically abusing them for daring to speak their own languages or practing their culture. It was a cultural genocide. There was nothing benevolent about it.
So how many students died from "discipline" at your school as a kid, smartass? Did you have to eat soap for being fluent in a second language? How much of your blood hit the floor if you contradicted your teacher when they made an assertion along the lines of claiming your hometown's economy was based on slave trading and eating bugs when in reality they fished, your grandparents practiced ritual cannibalism when of course that's insane slander, and your personal coming of age would have involved sex with an animal if it weren't for your school or the laws that are selectively applied to you that you witness frequently being broken by those who invoke it which you have no power to hold them to in return and the cock up your ass courtesy of a religious figure calling you a sinner and all of the abuse your rightful punishment?
Or did they not do shit like that because it was sick, wrong, and illegal and you're basically playing off rape like it's the equivalent of a wet willy? I don't have a lot of patience for this minimizing bullshit, it deliberately skips over the details and in doing so makes a blatant attempt to change the facts. We can't erase our history and replace it with something more palatable any more than we could erase theirs and insert our own self-aggrandizing hatefic which was the entire point of those hellholes and even if the worst thing to physically happen to the students was getting water sprayed in their face that purpose alone is an unforgivable act. How can we have pride in ourselves if we have to lie about every facet of who we are and what we've done? Does anything we achieve have any meaning when we accept that we'll just smudge it out in the history books if in the future we want a different story? And what do we do if we don't have the brute force to make anyone else nod along with us at storytime? What do we look like to the rest of the world and how do we ever hope for any global respect or credibility then?
Oh right, I don't have a link to it but there was a story in the news recently about a teacher giving an assignment for students to list five positive goods to come out of residential schools. I guess it's a reminder I can't sit on too high of a horse when I tear into how American schools approach the subject of slavery.
@Passerby #67315
There's alot of racism that goes on behind closed doors in Canada. Just look at the appalling treatment of Aboriginal people , even to this day. In many communities , white people will speak of Aboriginal people as if they're subhuman behind closed doors. The horrible things they will say is unbelievable.
It's just that Canada is better at sweeping it under the rug than their American neighbors.
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