It requires immediate investigation because there are a whole bunch of lawyers on contingencies waiting to sue the current government for actions that took place while most of them were in diapers or not even born.
Starving Aboriginals Subject to Canadian Experiments?
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It requires immediate investigation because there are a whole bunch of lawyers on contingencies waiting to sue the current government for actions that took place while most of them were in diapers or not even born.
And your hatred of lawyers blinds you to the fact that discrimination and bigotry toward aboriginal peoples is institutionalized in Canadian politics and policies. What happened 50 years ago may have stopped, but the marginalization and discrimination has not, it has just taken a different form.
That's an excellent point. Being a lawyer myself, I'm not gonna argue against a payday for my profession.
Was it starving, or different treatment of control group/experimentees?
Though it wasn't politically correct, I believe journalist sensationalism is just as wrong
Though it wasn't politically correct, I believe journalist sensationalism is just as wrong
Aboriginal kids were used as guinea pigs in many medical experiments. It didn't matter that they died or were permanently damaged. They weren't quite human after all. According to the aboriginal people, over 50 thousand kids disappeared in the residential schools. Their graves unmarked. Medical experimental failures?
When the source is the Toronto Star, we're all supposed to go:
OHHHHHHHHH, WELL, IT'S THE STAR AFTERALL.:roll: ( as in the past)
crumby little lefty paper eh.
no basis in facts
just commies
ignore
I doubt if we'll ever really know with all the white-washing denials, residual hate - and the fact Nazis kept better records
Oh, right. Sorry.
All together now!
Ohhhhh, WELL, it's the STAR after ALL!
Nice rhythm. Good chant.
When people started taking the Alberta and BC governments to court in the '90's, over forced sterilization, hospitals and churches alike started destroying records of who'd been in their care, and who'd been operated on. That's not something that happens if the people in power had no say, no control, or no interest.
I've actually seen accusations that Nazi scientists were involved in some of the research that was done to First Nations people. 'Project Paperclip' saw the CIA bringing a bunch over after the war according to accusations, and some claim they were some of the doctors who were responsible to purposeful TB infections and upward of 40% death rates for children in residential schools.
Of course, that's all hearsay and speculation.
Yep, that's one of my favourites.
Locally, we have "The name Redskins honors the courage and toughness of Native Americans."
You'd be shocked at what the B&B Commission Report says about indigenous peoples. That was in the 1960s'. It actively supports the assimilation of indigenous peoples. And then we praise that Commission for its work as a model of progressivism.
Well, y'know, them thar Injuns done made war on each other long 'fore the white man ever done showed up. So they deserve whatever happens to 'em, yup.