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Originally Posted by peter12
A major component of anti-Indigenous racism is the inability to accept that Indigenous people can think for themselves and make conscious, rational choices based on the same complex set of factors that non-Indigenous people face.
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I think the issue with this line of reasoning is, the non-indigenous members of our communities for a 100 years WEREN'T forced into schools that were almost explicitly run by Catholic churches and had Christianity rammed down their throats by force.
So, while we do accept that Indigenous people have the ability to make their own conscious rational decisions, were they able to?
Sure seems like these schools never gave them the chance to have a choice. Multi-generational forced indoctrination of a religion.
Of course they aren't going to abandon an organization that for generations has been forced down a large majority of their throats. It's a tough cycle to break.