(June 28, 2021 at 11:43 am)AkiraTheFighter24 Wrote:(June 28, 2021 at 12:41 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: For over a century, more than 150,000 Indigenous children in Canada were forced to attend Christian schools as part of a broader strategy to assimilate them into Canadian society.
Why? Why in the fuck would Canada do this? This is the type of shit that pisses me off to no end and I was already pissed off at the bodies of kids being found and the typical circle jerk of Catholics molesting kids and hiding it. Why is it that society refuses to see Christianity for what it really is? Atleast there seems to be some pushback form society. I'm glad their shit is getting vandalized, but I won't be surpirzed if the Church itself was behind the Church burnings to hide evidence.
Canada was not alone in this.
The schools were a deliberate attempt at cultural genocide -- but of course the term didn't exist back then.
The alternatives they saw were probably either a huge population who would be poor wards of the state, or a huge population that regained their identity and power and became a threat to English power.
As disgusting as this was, can we say that we would've chosen differently if we lived in the late 1800s? China is making the same calculation today with the Uighur. It seems to be an evil built into our nature.
Most of the graves were probably kids who died of Cholera or TB. However, some may have died from abuse -- we will never know.