My very basic and probably ignorant understanding (and open to being corrected) is that the Americans did a whole lot more just mass slaughters of First Nations people under the cover of war. Easy to claim you aren’t executing cultural genocide when instead you just went with....
So, I’m not sure they get a free pass.
Nor does this excuse what Canada has done, nor does that mean we don’t escalate this as a society, nor does that mean there shouldn’t be a more visceral support of the Truth and Reconciliation Program, nor is it a contest for “who was worse”, etc.
But, yeah, pretty sure we shouldn’t look to the US as to the model as to what “we ought to have done”.
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