Tom Flanagan: Still no bodies 5 years after Kamloops ‘mass burial site’ was announced – The yet-unproven allegation spurred a campaign of national shame, drove calls to criminalize residential school ‘denial’

“Media, politicians, and academics uncritically accepted the story”

You either accept or be branded a racist by the indigenous. This is page 1 of their playbook for public sympathy. Feel bad for us, give us more money

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Maybe someone could just dig a couple of holes.

I remember how so many facts were thrown to the wind during that divisive episode in Canadian history. It seemed that every allegation was taken as the reality without scrutiny. And, once alleged, even clarifications by several indigenous leaders on the subject were set aside.

I heard so many state that it was criminal that any child died at a residential school. Though non-native children in private boarding schools also died in the era a century ago before vaccinations for common communicable diseases. Also, so many children living on reserves also died, from the incidence of tuberculosis, which hit indigenous atbavmuch higher rate than the bulk of the population.

It was a case of hysteria over reason. Those who sought to use reason were shunned.