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I am very calm. But I am keen to call out acts of micro aggression and systemic discrimination... Especially the Bureau of Land Management. They are an underappreciated and underfunded arm of the government that deserve more love than they get.

More racism. The only things that ...Matter ... are the ones that begin with B and L . You need to do the work.

Of course it was. Total hysteria and LARPing. Especially since the ruling was leaked months ago, so there is no way this was a surprise. As for the Kansas referendum, it is no surprise. Americans in general fall between the two extremes of abortion being illegal and abortion being allowed up to the day of birth. From what most polls say, the majority position is somewhere around the end of the first trimester (14 weeks or so). After that, barring unique circumstances, there is no reason to allow abortions to occur.

Science is racist.

You shouldnt mock "The Acronym". That is an act of violence that harms people. The correct acronym, at least as of today, is 2SLGBTQQIA+. Please do try to keep up.

With respect, I would ask that you and others please stop using the anti-Semitic phrase "The Big Lie" when talking about contemporary politics. It was a key element of Nazi propaganda. Surely you can come up with something original and less bigoted?

1. Illegal firearms possession 2. Drug use and purchase 3. Involvement in human trafficking 4. Soliciting 5. Influence peddling Not sure if Joe is responsible or not, time will tell. But he most definitely was an "enabler" in the worst sense of the word.

So... perhaps you were wrong when you said that people arent particularly afraid of Harris becoming President? I think wide open primaries on BOTH sides would be fabulicious. Plus mandatory retirement for Congress/President/Supreme Court at 70 years old. If you are too old to fly a passenger jet then you are damn sure too old to fly the country.

Jing, Canada did the same thing. Trudeau and the Liberals got elected but the Conservative Party got more votes. As for Harris being an affirmative action pick, of course that is impossible to prove. But James Clyburn basically made it the price of his support- Joe picks a black running mate and Clyburn throws his considerable wieght behind the Biden campaign.

According to the LA Times, she has managed to be less popular than the previous FOUR vice presidents at this time in their term, including Dick Cheney. That's quite a feat! She is also two points below Joe Biden. Another impressive accomplishment. https://www.latimes.com/projects/kamala-harris-approval-rating-polls-vs-biden-other-vps/

Actually, quite a few WERE schooled locally. According to the TRC, only about one third of native children attended residential schools. And that number dropped over time as the infrastructure in the country gradually made remote communities accessable. Day schools (as they were called) actually outnumbered Residential schools by a substantial number- there were 700 day schools but only 80 residential schools at the peak of use in the 1930s. But the residential schools in general had more students per school. And natives who didn't live on reserve land sent their kids to usual local/municipal schools. But by law ALL kids in Canada had to attend school. But for children who lived in a trapping camp which was a 3 day canoe journey from the nearest town, it wasn't possible to do so at the local level.

I noticed the paper was a remarkable tongue bath of the TRC and, unsurprisingly, did not make an attempt to offer any counterpoint to the thesis. Most academic research at least mentions in passing what "the other side" is saying. It isn't a deflection when the premise of the research, in this case reactions to news articles, is based on a lie. The articles used all told the same unproven story about unmarked graves being found at the schools. You cannot base research on flawed and inaccurate source material. This makes any research coming from them utterly devoid of value. Not sure why you think that mentioning the paper is from Bishop's is some form of credibility. Bish is a very average-to-mediocre school, ranked #62 in the country. Still waiting for an original thought. Perhaps one may come to you in your sleep.

I can understand why people thought the whole Hunter's Laptop thing was fake. The timing was just a bit too good etc. Yet it turns out that it was real. So now what do we do with the information? There are some seriously disturbing things coming out of it. I can only imagine what the media would have said if one of Trump's sons was a meth addict who used Russian hookers (contributing to human trafficking), carried an illegal firearm, slept with his other brother's widow, and fathered an illegitimate child with a stripper. As for Biden's approval rating, the only thing keeping him out of the 20% range is the dread fear that, should anything happen to him, Kammy from Cali would be the president.

Interesting paper. Unfortunately, literally the first sentence of it is false. On May 27, 2021, Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc (the Kamloops Indian Band) announced that the remains of 215 children had been found in a mass grave on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School Did. Not. Happen. No mass graves have ever been discovered. No human remains, let alone remains of children, have been discovered. There has been no forensic study to determine the veracity of this claim at all. It has been more than a year and the Band has done nothing to move the investigation forward. So forgive me if I do not take this researcher seriously when the premise of his paper is based on nonsense. As an aside, even the TRC acknowledges that only 51 children died in the entire 80 plus years the school was open, so where did 215 suddenly materialize from? Now, do you have any original thoughts on the subject, or are you just going to post poorly researched material- I mean, analysing Facebook comments? Give me a break.

Being accused of racism is nonsense. It is inflammatory, rude, and also simply wrong. Surely we can discuss contentious issues without personal attacks. Either show your evidence or retract the slur.

Never said they were. I said they were subject to assimilation at the hands of the public education system. The native kids were taken because there was no way to put a school in every village and settlement across the country, especially the north. And as the country grew and infrastructure also became better, the residential schools began to decline and more indigenous kids went to day schools.

You might be better served to examine the documents and discussions at the time the schools were being implemented. Contemporary accounts based on memory and community "knowledge keepers" make for compelling stories but say nothing to motivation and intent. The TRC was flawed from the outset. It was a sounding board not a truth seeking body. I would have preferred it were stronger, that it had been given subpoena power, and could have investigated the claims more thoroughly. Instead, we are left with lurid tales of abuse without anything specific to grab on to or check independent of the commission.

I have never denied the impact. To quote myself, "I freely admit there were faults with the system, the implementation, and most of all the horrid behavior of some of the staff. " Today we know better and would not do the same thing. 150 years ago? Different world.

...and you know this how exactly? The point was education. Part of which was making the native children into good productive Canadians. To whit; Beginning in the 1870s, both the federal government and Plains Nations wanted to include schooling provisions in treaties, though for different reasons. Indigenous leaders hoped Euro-Canadian schooling would help their young to learn the skills of the newcomer society and help them make a successful transition to a world dominated by the strangers. With the passage of the British North America Act in 1867, and the implementation of the Indian Act (1876), the government was required to provide Indigenous youth with an education and to assimilate them into Canadian society. The federal government supported schooling as a way to make First Nations economically self-sufficient. Their underlying objective was to decrease Indigenous dependence on public funds. The government therefore collaborated with Christian missionaries to encourage religious conversion and Indigenous economic self-sufficiency. This led to the development of an educational policy after 1880 that relied heavily on custodial schools. These were not the kind of schools Indigenous leaders had hoped to create. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/residential-schools

Leave them at home. OK. And then what... Ignore the law that says all children must attend school. Would you say the same for the rest of the kids in the country too? Let them all stay with their families, no compulsory education?

Well, what was the alternative available at that time? A lot of people are quick to use their 20.20 hindsight to point out the wrongs of the past, yet are slow to say what would have been better. Any thoughts? Native communities had, and still have, many deep and serious problems. These simplistic views of the past do nothing to help them.

Yes, because his brother's views are more important than the actual man in question. Please. I don't see how this is relevant at all.

Yes, absolutely. The alternative was permanent misery and illiteracy. Of course with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, it could have been handled far better and more compassionately. But the basic premise of helping bring the native community into the 20th century was a good one. It is sad but inevitable that primitive societies and cultures dont survive contact with more technologically advanced ones. The government was trying to ease that transition, however clumsily.

You certainly sound like you have an axe to grind. And yes the Residential schools (at least those run by churches) did try to convert the natives. That was part of their mandate. Not zealotry or evil. Part of the whole package of integrating into the larger Canadian society at the time. As for doing nothing good, read a little about Tomson Highway.

Yet the outcome was not the same, either in place or in time. Myriad stories of people who enjoyed positive experiences at the schools abound. Tomson Highway for example (one of Canada's most famous native writers) describes his time in residential school as the best years of his life. It isn't a simple story that can be explained by a simple narrative. Yet many people insist on doing so.