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Who are you to say your interpretation is any more correct than the people you’re disagreeing with?
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What interpretation? I'm literally just taking the information we have at face value. There are 215 dead children. We don't know what caused their deaths yet, but it's unlikely to matter in terms of the school (and system) being culpable.
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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.
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Glad to see you're also not a moral relativist. Yet another thing we agree on.
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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.
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Given how much you've interacted with me, you should probably have realized by now that I try not to be a mind reader about what evil things people are supposedly implying. This fairly closed group of people is a lot more tolerable when everyone avoids that impulse. But in this case to just immediately jump to "YOU'RE A RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL APOLOGIST" from what was posted is particularly egregious. Then we have Kevanguy accusing someone of being a friend to the people who are responsible for a couple hundred dead kids, and somehow that's acceptable? Give me a break.
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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.
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This seems like a silly thing to find bizarre, by your own logic. I mean, granted, I'm admittedly a pretty bizarre guy, but if you yourself think I am, and you think I look at things clinically, then why would it surprise you that I find the reaction to something like this more interesting than being the fiftieth person to say "how awful, what a horrible thing to happen, the perpetrators are clearly the dregs of humanity"? I can say that if you like, but it seems very obvious.