“Indoctrination” is the boogeyman Republicans invoke because they can’t handle the truth: their ideas just aren’t that popular. When people are educated, exposed to new and different people/cultures/ideas, learn critical thinking skills and proper research techniques, etc., they realise how small-minded and backwards…

You’re right. I should’ve said they are demonstrating fascism, which is much more accurate. Was thinking Communist NK/China/Russia-esque controlled media when I wrote the comment.

Let me get this out of the way cuz I know someone’s thinking it “Some of you just can’t be happy”

Three untalented White girls who stole and watered down the dances of at least 10 dances created Black dancers have nettted over $10 million.

I get it, some people who have no vested in subjects, tend to think they’re worthless topics of discussions. You don’t care so just say that and move along.
Let the people who…

It’s also led to lucrative opportunities for the people who got famous off ripping off someone else’s hard work. 

Except that in the article it states that black creators make up the dances and white colonizers sweep in and steal their work to gain popularity and fame. White people have nobody to steal dances from therefore white people have to find a way to Riverdance to Thot Shit.  

Not to be a pedant, but this was also the Catholic church (primarily).

Thank you for pointing out that this is cultural genocide. People need to be reminded about this more often. These children were not allowed to speak their native languages, not allowed to follow their cultural traditions or worship the gods of their peoples, were forced to adopt “christian” names, and were completely…

Absolutely—none of this is “in the past.” It’s not even the generational trauma suffered by people who are children and grandchildren of now-dead people who suffered through this system. It’s a live legacy, and the legacy lives on in the oppression of and danger experienced by First Nations people.

Yes, the last school closed in 1996. It’s important to note that the last generation of kids sent to these schools were millennials. At their youngest these survivors are in their very late 20s and early 30s today.

There’s a lot of talk about how “this just happened to your ancestors, it was a long time ago, move on”…

The names for things aren’t static or permanent either! If scientists discover the Himalayas are two mountain ranges and rename them, so be it.

Just how much attention do you think Americans (or anyone) should be paying to oceanography news from Antarctica?

Also, could we not call residential schools “boarding schools”? They were, in that children lived there. But they were mandatory.  You couldn’t decide to not send your kids.  They were prison camps.

That’s why I laugh at every conspiracy theory that argues some groundbreaking truth (existence of giants, proof of ancient aliens, Knights Templar in America, the location of various lost religious artifacts, etc.) is being suppressed because historians don’t want to rewrite their textbooks. Like, they’re too lazy to…

Our national shame. Although Canadians like to pretend that we don’t have racial tensions like our southern counterpart (no offense slash offense), white settlers have (and continue) to commit genocide* on Indigenous peoples in Canada. We will continue to find graves at residential sites across the country because…

yeah the schools began in the 1890s technically but for the majority of their lifespan it was the 1900s - the last one closed in 1998 i think. these are living memories, these children should have been alive today like my boomer parents.

That so many people graduated from school thinking science was a static, permanent thing shows the failing of the American public school system.

So you think we should have engaged in thoughtful discussions with the Third Reich while they were busy programmatically gassing people?

As I say, the “they don’t tolerate my opinions” is an strategy these people are using to normalize bigotry, authoritarianism, even terrorism. No their radical ideas, are not just “opinions” as valid and normal as political discourse, they’re the reasons we have fought wars against them, and won every single time.

Republican: Im going to pander to the dumbest and crulest aspect of humanity in order to gain power and money for myself and my friends at the expense of the people and the planet.