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Thanks for the extensive write-up. This whole thing reminds me of the news stories about the children's mass grave* in Tuam, Ireland, and of supposed mass graves in Tulsa, Oklahoma where racist mass-murdering demons buried the victims of the 1921 "race massacre", or so we're told.
*See here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Secours_Mother_and_Baby_Home
When I try looking at these affairs without bias and prejudice, I try putting myself in the shoes of the average Western middle-class suburban white normie NPC, and frankly I realize that, unless some heretic specifically makes an effort to educate me on this, I'll probably have zero understanding of the following hard facts about the bygone days of the West:
It was normal to bury people in unmarked (mass) pauper's graves if nobody claimed the corpse, or if the relatives were too poor to, or unwilling to, afford a proper burial. This, in fact, was not rare.
Back when national economies were yet too undeveloped to produce a surplus to be spent on, frankly, luxuries, there was exactly zero public support for spending tax money to improve the material conditions of single mothers so that they have the same prospects in life as wives.
(Milking the impregnators for child support wasn't an option either in most cases, because they were either dead, in jail, or too poor to be milked for money.)
Also, a society that poor is also unable to pay for lavishly equipped, professional, extensive police forces. This means extrajudicial punishment and mob justice was seen as normal and necessary by most people.
Stray dogs were normally killed off and their corpses were used for industrial purposes, because you could be sure absolutely nobody was going to contribute material resources to founding and running comfy dog shelters. (I know this has nothing to do with these 3 news scandals, but I included it because we know that white liberals just love dogs.)
Exactly. People don't realize exactly how frequent early deaths were in prior eras, especially in hardscrabble frontier areas.
Even with the reservation schools, shouldn't the important mark of success be '% of a child entering the reservation school making it to adulthood v % of a child staying with the native population making it to adulthood'. It's frustrating how consistently historical inequality is compared to a benchmark of 2020 health & educational outcomes instead of actually doing some sort of historical apples to apples. Australia's Stolen Generation is very similar where, yes, it was a brutal practice but also the life outcomes of the 'stolen' were better than those who remained in the bush.
Indeed. And let's not forget that the same leftist propagandists are, of course, themselves mostly capable of such cool-headed historical clarity and awareness of context, when it comes to undermining the arguments of their enemies.
Are they? I feel the majority of leftist content on history is very much 'the eternal 2023' when it comes to moral condemnation and measuring historical outcomes.
Back when New Atheism was still a thing (and the Atheism+ split did not yet happen), its adherents routinely highlighted the dangerous spectre of international Islamic terrorism and violent extremism. In turn, the leftists accusing them of Islamophobia, racism etc. took up the habit of putting Islamism in the historical context of terrorism as a whole, pointing it out that international terrorism used to be more serious and prevalent in the 1970s. Suddenly the historical context mattered. But, of course, they never applied the same logic to, say, the history of sexual harassment, rape, sexism etc. Or look at leftist liberal arguments about Ukraine in the past year. Suddenly, things that happened more than 1000 years ago matter. Suddenly it's relevant that Russia was under the Tartar yoke, that Kiev was founded before Moscow etc.
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