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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 23, 2024

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What’s especially galling is that the indigenous kids dying is being framed as murder because communicable diseases that everyone died from back then killed those kids, because the schools lacked proper ventilation. Yes, that’s how Catholics planned to genocide the Indian children. Improper ventilation. How devious! How cunning!

Ironic also that it’s only Catholics bearing the blame, when the Unitarians and other churches also joined in.

Ironic also that it’s only Catholics bearing the blame, when the Unitarians and other churches also joined in.

Do you think this is independent of present day politics? The project 2025 scaremongering rabbit hole blames Catholics too. It’s just a progressive meme.

'just' a progressive meme undersells it a little I think -- there's a very real attempt to whip up anti-Catholic sentiment for social engineering reasons, and going after some Unitarians in bumfuck SK wouldn't advance this goal.

In reality the parameters of the project were determined by the (largely Liberal) government of the day -- so if anyone should be getting the hate it's like Robert Borden or something. This does not serve the agenda either, which is why old John A gets so much demonization despite being removed from power around the time the residential school system got really fired up.

just' a progressive meme undersells it a little I think -- there's a very real attempt to whip up anti-Catholic sentiment for social engineering reasons, and going after some Unitarians in bumfuck SK wouldn't advance this goal.

I won't disagree with that, but at the same time there's a limit to how far the cathedral is willing to go there. Hit pieces on St Mary's Kansas seem ambivalent and conspiracy theories about the knights of Malta involvement in project 2025 are not being pushed by DNC attack ads.

I think the lawfare and literal conquest by fire of the churches are doing the job well enough.

Louis Riel did nothing wrong.

From what I can gather, the idea of residential schools at the time was a rather progressive idea: "we can make these kids lives better by bringing them up assimilated with Western education and values." And several prominent Native Americans were at least loosely supportive of the idea (Charles Curtis, Vice President of the US during the Hoover administration comes to mind).

It strikes me as very similar to the far-left/communist meme about who gets to educate your children. And I think even now there would be support for it among progressives as long as you make sure it's for children of the right "undesirables."

the idea of residential schools at the time was a rather progressive idea

Nothing has changed. The Catholics get it worse simply because they're the easiest target for Progressives to engage (for various reasons). They also tend more often to be actually located on the reserves.

there would be support for it among progressives

Progressives already act like this, with force of law.

What do you think "we'll send Indian Affairs CPS to take your kids away if you use their birth name at home" is?
What do you think "if you complain about the teacher's pet raping your kid, you'll be arrested" is?
What do you think "if you engage in your native customs, like letting your kid outside to play unsupervised, you'll be harassed by the State" is?

They'll beat the Indian out of colonize you eventually.
Remember, land acknowledgements are about forcing you to admit that these colonizers own the land.

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