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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
In which case, pointing out the type of disease that might have been at issue is not a matter of "deflecting blame" or "sowing doubt" about the cause, as was being suggested. So... thanks for agreeing with me I guess?
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It could be a matter of that. It’s either an exercise that is completely focused on something that, in the end, isn’t the issue, or it’s an exercise aimed at painting the deaths as somehow unavoidable and commonplace or “of the time.”
Who are you to say your interpretation is any more correct than the people you’re disagreeing with? It wouldn’t be the first time someone painted something terrible about the Residential School System as some byproduct of the time it was in as a reason we shouldn’t react too harshly to some of the actions and things said at the time. If memory serves me correctly, someone in this thread has previously said almost exactly that when discussion over truth and reconciliation came up a while back, along the lines of how we shouldn’t judge the actions of those people back then based on today’s morals.
Sticking your head in the sand isn’t of any benefit. Just because something is factual, doesn’t mean that fact is presented without any motive. We can look at how it’s presented and, being that this is a fairly closed group of people, consider positions in greater context than 1-2 posts in a given thread. You know that.
Personally I find it bizarre you’re so often interested in the minutiae of how people talk about an issue than the issue itself, when I think it’s clear few people look at things quite as clinically as you do. And that’s ok.