@timthielmann Accused are only entitled to a presumption of innocence in a court of law. Not in the court of public opinion.
I hope that he's *actually* innocent (as, for instance, are the junior hockey players who were falsely accused by a crazy woman). But let's see what happens.
@FrancesWiddows1 Because Holocaust deniers are tendentiously denying historical facts and residential school deniers are bravely denying historical lies.
And the band and their specialist, Sarah Beaulieu, have been dodging my questions and reporting on this for years.
How could a skilled archeologist and โGPR specialistโ have literally missed the plot? How could she not have known the 215 claim was impossible to make without excavating?
If, assuming, I've done you wrong. But then I apologize. And I pay you compensation. And you accept it.
But then for the next twenty years you keep haranguing and whining about all the wrong I did to you...
What does that make you?
Kamloops hoax failed but not โtale of wicked residential schools.โ
Facts are clear:
โข schools were desired
โข waiting lists and reunions
โข kids educated, cared for, vaccinated
โข orphans, abused, starving kids aided
โข education is a right
โข cultural improvement not genocide
Indian Residential Schools were opened with the well-intentioned goal of educating children. And it is an appalling lie to equate them with genocide and Nazi concentration camps.
Oh, and no. No, I am NOT willing to go to jail over what I've said above. So kindly fuck off.
@Aaronpete_ Don't really see that giving children free room and board and teaching them how to read and write is such a terrible thing.
But, who knows, maybe they would have been better off staying in the stone age and using buffalo stomachs as their cooking pots?