Quote (duffman316 @ 31 May 2021 17:46)

I thought canada was chill but it looks like we did some terrible shit that was more terrible than i had learned in history classes. This was a result of efforts to assimilate the natives.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/215-bodies-found-canada-indigenous-school/

The remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, have been found buried on the site of what was once Canada's largest Indigenous residential school — one of the institutions that held children taken from families across the nation.

Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk'emlups te Secwépemc First Nation said in a news release that the remains were confirmed last weekend with the help of ground-penetrating radar.

More bodies may be found because there are more areas to search on the school grounds, Casimir said Friday.

In an earlier release, she called the discovery an "unthinkable loss that was spoken about but never documented at the Kamloops Indian Residential School."

From the 19th century until the 1970s, more than 150,000 First Nations children were required to attend state-funded Christian schools as part of a program to assimilate them into Canadian society. They were forced to convert to Christianity and not allowed to speak their native languages. Many were beaten and verbally abused, and up to 6,000 are said to have died.

Quote (MxVivianWulf @ Jun 2 2021 08:17am)

They're still doing it. I was involved in fundraising for unist'ot'en camp and wet'suwet'en nation only last year as the govt tried to force them off their land. There have been recent attacks on indigenous fisheries too... Canada's treatment of indigenous folks is disgusting. Just as bad as the USA's.

Quote (duffman316 @ May 31 2021 11:46am)

I thought canada was chill but it looks like we did some terrible shit that was more terrible than i had learned in history classes.

Quote (Thor123422 @ Jun 2 2021 08:30am)

I just want to single this part out. Its good you accepted it when you learned about it. A lot of people think that its a lie or something since they didn't hear about it in school.

This is true pretty much the world over. Here in America even kids from Tulsa never heard of the Tulsa race riots. Conservatives have made efforts for nearly 200 years to paint over the government's involvement and continued involvement with oppression and segregation.

Quote (proccy @ Jun 2 2021 11:44am)

I went to school in Canada and they taught us all about dirty colonization tactics and residential schools but I doubt *everyone* paid attention in class

Quote (proccy @ Jun 2 2021 10:44am)

I went to school in Canada and they taught us all about dirty colonization tactics and residential schools but I doubt *everyone* paid attention in class

Quote (SunnyvaleTrailerPark @ Jun 2 2021 08:47am)

Paying attention or not. It happened in the past. You will learn very fast in life that you can't change the past . You can give your everything in the present for a better tomorrow tho.

They keep bringing up the past to stir up shit and divide ethnic groups.

Bud, my tribe root for velociraptors. I heard your people prefer T-rex. Sorry but we can't co exist because of what T-rex did to our velociraptors so now you will be oppressed for it.

Quote (proccy @ Jun 2 2021 11:49am)

Of course you can't change the past. You learn from it. And there's still a lot to learn about this and how it applies moving forward in this country

Quote (SunnyvaleTrailerPark @ Jun 2 2021 08:52am)

We don't even have to learn. Everyone who's older than 10-12 years old should know what's good or bad. What the system teach you after that is "How to become a slave" in their system by choosing a job (Path) and going full dive into it. You'll then be assigned a job. We'll give you paper with # on it for your time at said place. You will then do said thing until you're too old THEN we'll allow you to start living. That's if stress, cancer, sickness,poverty doesn't kill you on the way because we'll give you the same salary but we'll make life more expensive as time goes.

There's nothing to learn in life but skillsets that could benefit you, your family and the people you love .

Surviving life in itself is very easy, surviving in the Matrix is something else. You'll forever live for someone else by trading TIME vs Resources.

I'm shocked you need to teach people what's good or bad in a world without many variables. It's like people have the attention span of a goldfish or too busy doing meaningless (tv, videogames, animes, turning in circle, being unprodutive) things to learn life basics.

Quote (ofthevoid @ Jun 1 2021 09:52pm)

I highly doubt this happened 50 years ago.

I think it’s important to get the facts straight here. Something that happened 120 years ago has less of a sting because it was in a different era with different rules versus something that happened 50 years ago. Not saying it’s less of an atrocity but it’s important to apply the proper measuring criteria.