My dem niece posted this. A step in the right direction
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What's happening here? Canadian mounties are taking children away from a Catholic orphanage?
I believe it is the roundup of indigenous children in the 1880s
This is "a step in the right direction"? Do you believe that before now she was ok with that happening? It seems like something everyone has already agreed on.
The residential schools are promoted by the mainstream media in Canada for their political purposes. This is as mainstream a leftist political talking point as anything. And with that, comes a lot of lies that surround it which are promoted in the media. All counter-points are supressed (counter points to the narrative, not arguments that the residential schools were a bad idea). And the blame is shifted wherever they want it and away from who they don't want blamed (the government).
Furthermore, the truly dangerous arguments on residential schools is that because they happened, natives should become a protected class who should not be held responsible for any crimes and be allowed to rob other citizens with impunity. That is what they are really pushing with residential schools. And that whites are bad.
When did the government not accept responsibility? I thought they've been falling over themselves backwards since the buried bodies were discovered.
As for your second point, exaggeration aside, that sounds more like critical race theory/reparations talk, which exists outside this specific case ("they started at a disadvantage because of what our ancestors did, so they deserve a chance to catch up")
My comment was geared more toward the writing than the picture. Since the inception of BLM she has supported removing statues doesn't believe google has censored historical data, etc, and she has a Masters in history. We have gone toe to toe about the rewriting of history and in some respects she is all for erasing parts of it because it's painful to her friends.
That part I feel leans a bit more left even, as they believe conservatives and "patriots" don't feel history's ugliness should be taken into account (see reparations and CRT).
It comes down to interpretation I guess and you clearly have more context than I do! Could be a conversation starter to see if she's drifting right.
Thanks. That's awful.