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Originally Posted by flamesfever
2. Forgetting the contribution of those who worked and sacrificed to get us where we are today. e.g. renaming schools, streets, and tearing down statues
"Hiding the fact that people did terrible things just because the also did some good things is just as bad. Pointing renaming a bridge because the guy we named it after was the architect of an abusive system isn't rewriting, or ignoring history, it's the opposite of that. It's making sure we are fully aware of that history, and the entirely of the impact that person had, and more importantly, deciding if we want to honor them within the context of their entire body of work."
I am fairly sure the young people, pushing down the statues, did not do the work you are suggesting.
As an older person, I see too much presentism going on these days, especially the tendency to interpret past events in terms of modern values and concepts.
I do not believe there has been enough criticism of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The main problem is that anyone, who attempts to do so, is running the risk of being called a racist. How many graves have been dug up to establish the truth?
I know what it was like to be ripped away from my parents, at the age of 3, and put in an institution for one and a half years. I can tell you from experience, the kids were worse than the attendants.
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You are both right and so abysmally wrong here all at the same time it's hard to comprehend, of course kids left to bring themselves up with no adults to mentor them become feral violent sexually perverse little bastards, books about it have been written, Lord of The Flies, Tom Brown's Schooldays.
You know the other scary thing, the kids brought up in that environment are never able to make up for it, they will always be broken and barely functional with no ability to effectively parent, they will pass on their learnt dysfunctional behavior to their kids and Grandkids.
It's why the huge Group Homes with 15 or 20 kids I started working in back in the 80's have been closed, because we now know better
But here's the thing, only three groups of children were sent wholesale into these types of institutions to be raped and abused starved and beaten for decades, generation after generation, the mentally and physically handicapped (abuse within the deaf community was horrific) and natives.
Every single native foster kid that comes through my house now has been parented by mums and dads or Grandparents who were raped beaten, starved in these institutions, a whole society has had it's ability to grow develop and nurture its own kids destroyed and it will take generations to rebuild that.
The abuse within the care system for white kids in the 60's 70's and 80's was the same as it was in the Residential System for native kids, the difference is only about 2 or 3% of white kids were affected by that whereas almost 100% of natives were sent to these hideous abusive institutions, you know what else? the white kids who went through those terrible institutions in the 60's and 70's had the same outcomes as the native kids, they ended up spending their lives in jail or strung out on the street alongside the native kids, their kids and grandkids end up in my foster home, the issue isnt about race, if you do the same thing to any group of kids you get the same terrible outcome, it's just we (Canada) mostly did it to native kids.