Redbanabandana t1_iu6hex5 wrote
Reply to comment by Prometheus720 in (Canada) House of Commons unanimously agrees to describe residential schools as genocide by EdithDich
If you think residential schools is on the same level as Holocaust and Apartheid, I don't know what to tell you. It must be confusing at the store when $1 and $2,000 is the same to you.
>Though many deaths were due to disease which nobody (at first) intentionally spread, make no mistake that there was a genocide across the entire Americas. People came to the Americas and killed, directly or indirectly, millions of its inhabitants. That's genocide.
Why would Canada even acknowledge anything that happened before Canada even existed?
Prometheus720 t1_iu6vdxb wrote
Are you deliberately not reading what I wrote?
Let me direct you to anotherof my comments.
Redbanabandana t1_iu73bkq wrote
Yeah, no. Residential schools are to genocide as manslaughter is to murder. Two different bad things.
Prometheus720 t1_iu6vmck wrote
How are you putting Apartheid up there with the Holocaust while skipping over huge genocides like Armenia?
Apartheid is about as apples to apples with residential schools as anything mentioned so far in this thread
Redbanabandana t1_iu72y0n wrote
Was I supposed to provide an exhaustive list of all genocides?
Prometheus720 t1_iu7wqm2 wrote
No, you're supposed to have one standard for what you're willing to compare to the Holocaust. You appear to have 2 separate standards.
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