if it were a genocide, and barely anyone survived, it'd be impossible to do anything except mourn it as a black chapter

Eternal slavery?

They're lucky they weren't all slaughtered in all honesty -- like most of the Spaniards did

_Instead_ we instituted a system of laws and "treaties" (which we violated at will) to systematically erode the foundations of these societies.

Ah, a partial genocide, because surivors can complain. Got you.

The goal was _ostensibly_ integration

but the job was botched so severely, it is hard to fathom.

and now we're left with the output of these policies.

It is way more undignified than a genocide.

More like alive to suffer

The Indian Act, the "residential school system" (sounds way nicer than it should), the hamfisted half measures and self-aggrandizing non-apologies

There are living ancestors to every one of these policies, who have suffered them in their lifetime.

meanwhile the federal government is concerned with its treatment of usurous strangers from the other side of the planet!

Many white Canadians were also in those residential schools which no one talks about

Well, that was negligible by comparison

but yes, those people are also owed a debt

Which is why these debts need to be enumerated, and closed.

haha ok, tell that to those that came from those schools

i still wana blow up the moon...

I meant by the numbers @Coochie coo

Shoot, man, we need the moon.

Obviously for the people there, they all had to experience it.

but if we blow it up we will have a lot of moons

I meant basically that it was not a common experience for whites

It does important gravity stuff.

wypipo

then we will have many moons doin that

i promise we wont float away

@Coochie coo That debt is payable to the survivors of the system, not ambiguously to first nations people.

just imagine

the thing is, if you pay reconciliations because of the schools then you have to do it for all.... and why only the natives? ... You think the chiefs are really going to want to close this all once and for all? I highly doubt it, hence why this has been going on for so long...

all the moons!

What did this school system do?

feed us bad food

The residential schools for natives

It's true, victimization is a position of strength. They wouldn't want to lose it.

@Coochie coo I explicitly said not only for the natives.

Is this about reparations of some form?

@Undead Mockingbird not retroactive, the people who experienced the policy are still alive.

@Undead Mockingbird well, some of them at least.

Whenever people talk about some form of reparation, I have the urge to remind them that we spend about $1 trillion on welfare/social services each year.