Quote from: Logic Sandwich on May 25, 2024, 08:47:10 AMWell it served its purpose didn't it? The church lost great currency in the court of public opinion, up to and including the casting of its scriptures as effectively hate speech, priests being arrested for carrying bibles in their pocket. Houses of worship are being defaced and burned down by ANTIFA goons to this day.

The whole reason the story got any traction in the first place was because "muh poor downtrodden minority"... with the ongoing persecution of that religious chapter, do you not think the bleeding hearts might start bleeding for the ongoing persecution of religious practitioners? I think there's a good chance that they might, and that would put them at odds with the assholes that lied their arses off to slander and smear the church in the first place.

There's your reason why retractions aren't coming thick and fast, why there's no wall to wall coverage of "hey, we were lied to, we cannot find the bones".

I'm not convinced that was it's purpose.

Quote from: Brent on May 22, 2024, 02:15:01 PMI haven't heard a peep about this recently.

Progs abandoned that cause quick.

Well it served its purpose didn't it? The church lost great currency in the court of public opinion, up to and including the casting of its scriptures as effectively hate speech, priests being arrested for carrying bibles in their pocket. Houses of worship are being defaced and burned down by ANTIFA goons to this day.

The whole reason the story got any traction in the first place was because "muh poor downtrodden minority"... with the ongoing persecution of that religious chapter, do you not think the bleeding hearts might start bleeding for the ongoing persecution of religious practitioners? I think there's a good chance that they might, and that would put them at odds with the assholes that lied their arses off to slander and smear the church in the first place.

There's your reason why retractions aren't coming thick and fast, why there's no wall to wall coverage of "hey, we were lied to, we cannot find the bones".

I haven't heard a peep about this recently.

Progs abandoned that cause quick.

Quick background
The residential schools were part of a federally mandated campaign to both educate Indian children who had no alternative local school options and to assimilate them into contemporary Canadian society.

These schools operated from the 1880s until the second half of the 20th century.

While neither the Catholic Church as a whole nor the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops were associated with the system, various Catholic dioceses helped administer a plurality of the schools. The Anglican and Presbyterian churches were also involved. An estimated 150,000 children attended the schools over the course of a century.

Canada's seven-year Truth and Reconciliation Commission alleged that over 3,200 children died while attending the schools. The main killer was reportedly tuberculosis, a disease that swept the rest of the nation as well.

In "The Canadian Manifesto," British lord and former newspaper publisher Conrad Black noted, "The federal government for some decades in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was encouraging and subsidizing residential schooling delivered mainly within the private sector, especially the Christian churches. This was designed to enable Indigenous people to compete advantageously in the community of Canada as a whole, not to exterminate their consciousness of their socio-cultural roots. The policy had mixed results and there were certainly a good many instances of cruelty and incompetence, but many people thrived, and these students constituted the great majority of educated natives."

Years after the last school was shuttered, a grievance industry began to grow around claims of abuse and so-called "cultural genocide" in the schools.

Black added that "to tag any previous Canadian government as genocidal [over the residential schools] in any sense was an outrage and a blood libel on the English- and French-Canadian peoples."

Philip Horgan, president and general counsel for the Catholic Civil Rights League, told Blaze News, "A national resolution of claims arising from the residential school experience was reached in 2008, which resulted in published and expressed apologies from the federal governments and the various churches involved."

"A settlement process was reached which remitted payments of close to $5 billion from the federal government over the following 12 years for former residential school students," continued Horgan. "Christian churches provided added assistance to those recoveries."

Horgan noted that as part of the settlement process, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission "pursued investigations and submitted reports, from roughly 2008 through 2015, which provided additional evidence of missing children and/or unmarked graves, but that evidence continues to be investigated."

The historic paydays, apologies, and various efforts at transparency were evidently not enough to turn the page on the residential schools chapter of Canadian history.

The makings of a 'blood libel'
The Tk'emlups te Secwepemc Nation — formerly called the Kamloops Indian Band — announced in May 2021 that it had confirmed the discovery of children's remains in an apple orchard near a former Catholic-run residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia.

The apple orchard was originally selected for a survey partly on the basis of "Knowledge keepers' oral histories" and a tooth belonging to a juvenile found nearby.

Rosanne Casimir, the chief of the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc Nation, told state media at the outset that University of the Fraser Valley anthropologist Sarah Beaulieu's ground-penetrating radar surveys had uncovered the remains of 215 "missing children" whose deaths were "undocumented."

It was another scam just like the Russia collusion bullshit in the US.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/blaze-news-investigates-ashes-and-accountability-in-the-aftermath-of-canadas-unmarked-indian-graves-sham?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20240521Trending-CanadianBloodLibel&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News&tpcc=email-breaking

Those keen observers, investigative reporters, and historians who understood the tall tales about unmarked Indian children's graves near and in former residential schools to be fraudulent, overblown, or at the very least unsubstantiated were smeared with a term once reserved for Holocaust deniers: "denialists." Lawmakers even considered making such publicly stated doubts a crime.

The admitted absence of any evidence now, years later, has prompted the narrative's grip to slacken and some to reflect on how it was able to hold on for so long absent a body.

Maxime Bernier, the leader of the People's Party of Canada, told Blaze News, "Three years after a moral panic broke out following the supposed discovery of 'mass graves' at the Kamloops residential school, we now know that it was all a hoax. No bodies were found even after $8 million was spent to find them."

Hundreds of millions of dollars have been blown on the other investigations — ostensibly also fruitless pursuits.

"But like other moral panics, this one was instrumentalized by far left activists and the Trudeau government to demonize Canadian history and Canadian society," continued Bernier. "Among the awful repercussions of this demonization is the fact that it likely motivated hateful criminals to torch over 80 churches across the country during these three years, with new ones being added almost every week."