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Prometheus720 t1_iu6bkio wrote

Reply to comment by Redbanabandana in (Canada) House of Commons unanimously agrees to describe residential schools as genocide by EdithDich

You're being a jerk.

This is like someone telling an assault victim, "Well I'm sorry that happened to you, but its not like he put his dick in you. Like you couldn't even get pregnant or anything. He just touched you. I don't even know why we call it sexual assault."

  1. Canada has never had the population density of Europe. You'd need to correct for population density to do apples to apples.

  2. The schools were one part of a genocidal system which had other parts.

  3. The purpose of the schools was to eradicate a culture. Due to many actions (and also some accidents), the native population was already depressed. This wasn't "genocide from scratch." It was finishing the job.

Though many deaths were due to disease which nobody (at first) intentionally spread, make no mistake that there was a genocide across the entire Americas. People came to the Americas and killed, directly or indirectly, millions of its inhabitants. That's genocide.

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Redbanabandana t1_iu6hex5 wrote

If you think residential schools is on the same level as Holocaust and Apartheid, I don't know what to tell you. It must be confusing at the store when $1 and $2,000 is the same to you.

>Though many deaths were due to disease which nobody (at first) intentionally spread, make no mistake that there was a genocide across the entire Americas. People came to the Americas and killed, directly or indirectly, millions of its inhabitants. That's genocide.

Why would Canada even acknowledge anything that happened before Canada even existed?

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Prometheus720 t1_iu6vdxb wrote

Are you deliberately not reading what I wrote?

Let me direct you to anotherof my comments.

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Redbanabandana t1_iu73bkq wrote

Yeah, no. Residential schools are to genocide as manslaughter is to murder. Two different bad things.

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Prometheus720 t1_iu6vmck wrote

How are you putting Apartheid up there with the Holocaust while skipping over huge genocides like Armenia?

Apartheid is about as apples to apples with residential schools as anything mentioned so far in this thread

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Redbanabandana t1_iu72y0n wrote

Was I supposed to provide an exhaustive list of all genocides?

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Prometheus720 t1_iu7wqm2 wrote

No, you're supposed to have one standard for what you're willing to compare to the Holocaust. You appear to have 2 separate standards.

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