'Journalism' Is Totally Broken

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As we gnash our teeth about the corruption of the 60 Minutes "journalists" who are whining that they can't spread propaganda without scrutiny anymore, let's recall that the problem is not limited to a few bad apples. 

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Pretty much the entire barrel is rotten. If you pick through the apples in there, you will find a few that are still edible or even good; for the most part, the lot of them should just be thrown out. 

One of the biggest stories of the past few years in our neighbor to the north is the fake scandal of the state-sponsored and church-run residential schools for the native population. 

The claim that was made and pushed for years, with the collusion of the Trudeau government and the entire media establishment, was that the Catholic schools systematically hid the torture and murder of indian children, burying them in unmarked graves. A number of graveyards were identified, and Catholic churches were torched around the country as a result of the story. 

The only problem? No graves were found. No bodies. No nothing. All the accusations were baseless. While it is true that some students indeed died under the care of the schools, the deaths were due to the diseases that all children of all races get, and from which deaths were common enough until modern medicine caught up. 

Accusing the schools of racial genocide due to these deaths would be like accusing private schools of paralyzing children because some got polio when they went to school. True enough, but the schools had nothing to do with it. 

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The story won't die, though, because it has "become part of Canada's national identity. Just saying the truth is grounds for dismissal from employment and slander in the press. 

While Canada’s residential school era has become a key piece of our national identity, there has been an eruption of late of what some academics call denialism.

That eruption – and efforts to counter it – is the focus of Dismantling Denialism on APTN Investigates.

Frances Widdowson, a former associate professor fired from Calgary’s Mount Royal University in 2021 in the wake of comments she made asserting the benefits of residential schools, is emerging as denialism’s public face – recently making a series of provocative appearances on Canadian university campuses.

On Dec. 2, Widdowson was arrested for trespassing at the University of Victoria after showing up in spite of being told by administrators ahead of her visit that she was not permitted to be on the property.

“For the last decade I’ve been paying attention to people who are trying to undermine and attack truth and reconciliation,” University of Manitoba Indigenous Studies professor Sean Carleton said of denialism, “and they’re trying to cherry-pick certain elements of the story, twist it, downplay it, minimize it, as a way of hiving off support for reconciliation.”

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"Reconciliation?" Based on lies? Because the story is "part of Canada's national identity?

It's absurd, but this is the world we live in now, where telling the truth is a punishable offense. 

"Denialism" is a word used to slander people's integrity when it is used to suppress the speech of people telling the truth. 

There is nothing benign about this. Canada is paying billions of dollars in reparations for "crimes" that were never committed, and rather than promoting "reconciliation," the narrative has heightened tensions in the country for political and pecuniary gain. People are using this narrative to reshape Canadian culture, enable the reshaping of Canadian society and politics, and to make a killing from reparations. 

The government under Trudeau and the media were entirely complicit, and they are doing their best to suppress discussion of this fraud. 

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All of this could be sorted out by respectfully doing an exhumation of any bodies at the Kamloops residential school in the "unmarked graves" area where ground penetrating radar was used to find anomalies in the ground.

We had our Prime Minister literally kneeling at a marker in a field. So unless those markers were mere props, it would not be hard to find what is down there.

If there are hundreds of children dumped in a mass grave, history has a right to know that. It MUST be verified.

No sane person would want to leave that unchecked considering there are still family who want answers as to what happened to loved ones who went missing.

We can respectfully and safely do this work of digging up the site and then if bodies are found, do DNA tests and give those victims a proper burial.

If bodies are not found, then those pushing this narrative must apologize to the entire Nation.

Those who pushed for laws to punish people who dared ask questions, need to step aside from politics and do some soul searching of their own.

I have said it repeatedly, the Residential school system clearly failed. There does need to be reconciliation and truth around all of it.

The only way to achieve that is to find out for sure about all of it before history rewrites itself and can't be questioned at all. 

Truth is no defense in these witch hunts. The fact that there is zero evidence for a horrific crime would seem to matter quite a bit, but it doesn't in modern Western countries that have adopted policies of censorship as a substitute for allowing a rational debate that would allow Canadians to arrive at the truth. 

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Most of the people who actually worked at the schools were indigenous, and most of the students were recruited by indigenous people who were seeking integration into the larger Canadian society. Which, by the way, is the best path to actual reconciliation, rather than amping up the division by spreading slanderous lies. 

Criminalizing discussion is not a way to protect the truth or a path to reconciliation. All the violence that has arisen from these lies has been against Catholics, yet all the accusations of violent intent are also aimed at them. 

This is how Pravda worked. Identify the Kulaks as the problem, and set people against them for nonexistent crimes. This is the same strategy. 

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Media and academia collude with government officials to push false narratives. It's the Marxist playbook, and it is now standard practice.