Sean Carleton

Historian/Indigenous Studies. Books: When The Pine Needles Fall; Lessons in Legitimacy; Dissenting Traditions; Direct Action Gets the Goods.

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

I'm happy to share that today is the release of the paperback edition of my book Lessons in Legitimacy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and the the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia: https://t.co/IoieQpW5Q5

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

Oh, and don’t get it twisted: have a look at those on this hellsite celebrating both as wins 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

So, Canada today refused to criminalize residential school denialism and also refused to examine its complicity in the genocide in Gaza. Canada is basically just a genocide denial country at this point. So much for peacekeeper myth?

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

@erinotoole So much for turning over a new leaf and trying to help save the CPC and Canada from extremism. This is why Canadians rejected you: failure of leadership. You’ve clearly sided with denialism and learned nothing, which is disappointing.

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

@erinotoole The Globe basically capitulated to the far-right false framing that you’re also tacitly supporting that, actually, is meant to inflame anti-Indigenous racism via denialism as a political wedge. You can deny it, but don’t pretend your disingenuous rhetoric isn’t obvious.

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

@erinotoole What I’m saying, here, respectfully, is that you’re getting this one wrong - but have the opportunity to help people get it right. Speaking out forcefully on one issue but not the other is hypocritical. Antisemitism and anti-Indigenous racism are bad. Period. That’s it.

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

Doing so is an *opportunity* to demonstrate leadership and respect - which you talked about in your original post, which I applaud. Extending that compassion and care to Jewish people but withholding it from Indigenous peoples and insisting on "balance" - is a deadend.

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

Erin, you got caught trying to *teach* people how to politicize it (https://t.co/YX01mnMpQI). I know you're trying to rehabilitate yourself/save the CPC from its full on embrace of extremism, so lead. Call out the harms of Holocaust and IRS denialism. Don't hind behind balance.

[Erin O'Toole @erinotoole]

@SeanCarleton Polarization on these issues stems from the fact that there has not been enough balanced discussion reconciling the past with the present. The cancel culture approach has driven people apart and that is why land acknowledgments and graves have become a flashpoint.

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

@erinotoole Erin, you got caught trying to *teach* people how to politicize it (https://t.co/YX01mnMpQI). I know you're trying to rehabilitate yourself/save the CPC from its full on embrace of extremism, so lead. Call out the harms of Holocaust and IRS denialism. Don't hind behind balance.

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

@JCCFCanada Funny, your rationale for opposing the criminalization of Holocaust denialism - introduced and championed by the Conservative Party - is not framed as "Whatever you may think of the Holocaust." Do you, also, find residential school denialism vile and a scourge that causes harm?

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

@erinotoole But, hey, I appreciate your response. I just think you can play a role in combating this kind of extremism, which you know is rampant in the CPC and conservatives movements right now...but it shouldn't be, or doesn't have to be. Canada's better than that.

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

@erinotoole This is the kind of hypocritical stuff that is leading the CPC down the wrong path - and honestly, damaging Canada's future. Call out antisemistim and Holocaust denialism, but have the courage to do the same for anti-Indigenous racism and residential school denialism.

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

Come on, Erin, you voted to criminalize Holocaust denialism - which the Conservative Party introduced. But, now, because the far-right is using residential school denialism and anti-Indigenous racism as a political wedge - you're cool with it. That's wrong, and you know it.

[Erin O'Toole @erinotoole]

@SeanCarleton The conversation about reconciliation is one that needs to continue with respectful and serious dialogue. It has often fallen short, but limiting speech will only further polarization. Respectfully I also don’t believe it has been increasing at the alarming rate of antisemitism.

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

@mashbeem Yikes:

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

Holocaust denialism is also criminalized in Canada. The Conservative Party of Canada not only supported this, it was a Conservative MP who introduced the bill. Is that also "terrifying and disgusting," or are you just selectively outraged when it suits your political ideology?

[Lawrence M. Krauss @LKrauss1]

Any country that criminalizes opinions can no longer be described as a free democracy. This is both terrifying and disgusting. They should be ashamed.

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

Also, this tracks:

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

Of course, predictably, our friend Lawrence is up to his elbows in boosting residential school denialists. Imagine that.

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

@Bratt_world Oh, I'm sure they'd love to make a public display of things and use it to further platform denialism and hate even more. This is one reason why this is not the only, or most effective way, of combating denialism.

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

To be clear, criminalizing residential school denialism - similar to Holocaust denialism, which is already criminalized in Canada - is only one tool for combating the rise of anti-Indigenous racism and hate in the country. It's a step, not a silver bullet: https://t.co/hnSj4JQ83x

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

@KirkLubimov Holocaust denialism is also criminalized in Canada. The Conservative Party of Canada not only supported this, it was a Conservative MP who introduced the bill. Are you against that as well or are you just selectively outraged when it suits your own political ideology, Kirk?

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

@LKrauss1 Holocaust denialism is also criminalized in Canada. The Conservative Party of Canada not only supported this, it was a Conservative MP who introduced the bill. Is that also "terrifying and disgusting," or only when the denialism minimizes a genocide you're okay with.