we already know it is far worse than we could imagine. These children were dragged from there homes and families and forced into "residential schooling". The goal was to turn indigenous children into workers for the colonizers factories
— Simon O'Neill (@SimonONeill1966) May 24, 2022
Residential Schools are awesome. I mean, we knew that, I'm just getting it out of the way. It's far more benign than Simon's fervent fever-dreams.
Jazz Meat Singer, the terrorist turned NDP leader propping up the "genocidal" Trudeau regime, started it all off with a blatant lie: that in May of 2021"215 graves" were found in Kamloops. (The correct answer was zero)
Somebody else brought up a separate point: assuming the "215 graves" was true, that piece of information alone doesn't tell us anything. Twenty years ago in Staten Island, NYC there were hundreds of bodies...yet there was nothing nefarious about it. A mass grave was setup a few years earlier in the Caribbean island of Montserrat, and no humans did anything wrong in that case.
So how did the "215 kids" die? The poster brought up a childhood disease that might have ravaged through the student population (we've covered this), he apparently is unaware that the original building burnt down in a fire (we've covered this). The big salient answer in his mind that we don't know...since we haven't dug up any kids yet (remember he thinks the kids are confirmed).
Simon won't have any of this though: in response to the sensible answer that "we don't know what happened" he starts lying by saying "we know what happened". He then discusses things that didn't happen:
- "Dragged from their homes and families and forced into residential schooling" is a lie. The kids were "dragged from homes" in the exact same sense that white students are dragged from their homes daily: school is mandatory. And yet, Residential Schools actually weren't wholly mandatory: there were alternatives akin to the modern homeschooling. Indeed it wasn't until 1920 that Red Indian children were legally mandated to attend school (white children in Ontario were mandated since 1871 to attend school [PDF], presumably being dragged from their homes and families all the while), and even then it didn't have to be a Residential School unless no other options were available (a situation literally paralleled by non-Catholic whites in modern-day Alberta [useless asshole Climenhaga]).
- Similarly "the goal" (of Residential Schools) was to "turn indigenous children into workers for the colonizers factories" was a lie. The goal, whether you think it was worth the effort or not, was to provide as close as possible to a modern education. Indeed that education was inherently Christian, that's why they're so mad at Adolphus Egerton Ryerson. So which was it? This is the "sadly not true" referenced in the post title. If Residential Schools were more like the Dutch workhouse model briefly flirted with in England, then we probably would have been better off: Red Indians wouldn't be very good at reading or multiplication, but their race is apparently bad at that anyways. It turns out that having injun kids turned into a sort of permanently labour class couldn't have been worse than what actually happened. It probably would have been better.
Simon is complaining about a thing that didn't happen and would have improved Canada by being implemented. It's like privatized healthcare all over again.
