Fantomex Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 1 hour ago, thedestroyerofworlds said: There is an Australian movie called " Rabbit Proof Fence" that tells a similar tale, only involving some Aborigine girls who used the rabbit fences to find their way home. Canada wasn't the only place that rounded up their children to "civilize the savages", or so was the justification for this. Colonisation, it's for everyone's best interests.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearly Jamble Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 25 minutes ago, Lancaster said: To play Devil's Advocate..... There is partial true in what she said. Not everyone who went through the residential school system were abused or had their lives ruined. Just far too many were negatively impacted when they shouldn't have. Approximately 150,000 students went through the system..... chances are the majority of them went through without any issues. Not trivializing those who were abused or neglected to the point of death, but there were at least some "good" that occurred. The motives for such schools were noble from an Euro-centric, late 19th and early 20th century point of view..... just ghastly by modern standards. But as the saying goes, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. There is nothing, not one thing positive about these concentration camps. This senator is not ignorant, she is a racist fully aware of the racist implications of the residential schools on the ongoing history of Indigenous people here. These schools were the continuation of the genocide of Indigenous people in this land. At first it was conquest, mass extermination, land grab, reservations, and then as the Indian Affairs department so correctly exposed their motives, which was to "deal with the Indian problem" by creating these residential schools. Their intentions were good for their way of life, the absolute savage oppression and repression of Indigenous people. There is no justification for this continuation of the genocide, and the reparations that must be implemented will never be enough as the damage has been done. The culture, the religion, the language, the way of life, the family, the community, EVERYTHING was taken out of Indigenous children across Canada, to make them "Canadian". These schools robbed people of their identity, there is nothing that possibly can be positive about that, unless you believe that European culture is superior to the various Indigenous cultures and ways of life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dral Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 1 hour ago, Pearly Jamble said: There is nothing, not one thing positive about these concentration camps. This senator is not ignorant, she is a racist fully aware of the racist implications of the residential schools on the ongoing history of Indigenous people here. I don't know if she's actually racist... and I definitely don't think she's even close to being aware of it... you can't be holding down a government job, say something like this and actually be aware of what you are saying... I think she's just a bit of a religious nut bag that thinks Jesus trumps everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusclePharm Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Statistically speaking, you had a better chance of dying in a residential school (1/25) than if you were a soldier for Canada in ww2 (1/26). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alflives Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 The Senator who said this is either openly racist or a friggin moron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 I... don't have words... Hopefully she can be stripped of her position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alflives Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Just now, J.R. said: I... don't have words... Hopefully she can be stripped of her position. Aren't our Senators appointed for life? Can they be turfed, or do they have to resign? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nucklehead Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 11 hours ago, Dral said: I don't know if she's actually racist... and I definitely don't think she's even close to being aware of it... you can't be holding down a government job, say something like this and actually be aware of what you are saying... I think she's just a bit of a religious nut bag that thinks Jesus trumps everything that's a very fine line and one that virtually doesn't exist in my mind anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dral Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 1 hour ago, nucklehead said: that's a very fine line and one that virtually doesn't exist in my mind anymore It's the difference between being incompetent and being malicious... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nucklehead Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 well I really have a hard time believing anyone could be that ignorant...so I'm leaning towards malicious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 9 minutes ago, nucklehead said: well I really have a hard time believing anyone could be that ignorant...so I'm leaning towards malicious I think you have to consider her age. As someone who went to school in the 60s and 70s, I can tell you that Residential Schools were something that was never even discussed. It's only recently that this "reconciliation" thing has come about. As a kid, I went past the Lejac site many times, blissfully unaware of what it was, or what went on there. (Lejac is about 15 minutes on the Prince George side of Fraser Lake) It was only years later, when I moved to Prince Rupert, (a town about 40% aboriginal) that I started to learn the ugly truth about residential schools. Later when I met my wife (a member of the Wet'suwet'en first nation and who's mother was taken from the Hazertons to Lejac as a child, I learned more. My mother in law rarely speaks about it, but she told my daughter once that she wasn't treated too badly, because she always did exactly as she was told. However, she also said that children who didn't toe the line were treated much worse. The sad truth is that residential schools severed a single purpose: To beat the "indian" out of it's residents. There is no positive to be taken from the fact that such crimes were committed against aboriginal peoples. It really is our national shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canada Hockey Place Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 16 hours ago, Warhippy said: This woman is everything wrong with canada in the same way that the overly PC crowd is. I kind of feel this woman's comments illustrates why political correctness is still needed. It's obvious there is still work to be done and people to reach. You for instance are tired of it, I get that, so are a lot of people I assume. But there is a portion of society who are using the anti-PC position to further much different agenda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillipBlunt Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 I wonder how this useless turd of a human being, Lynn Beyak, would feel being forcibly taken from her home and driven to a dilapidated schoolhouse past 150 Mile House, where she'd be subject to be woken up at dawn, forced to eat gruel, and then "reprogrammed" by having the Jesus beaten out of her. Her comments clearly indicate that she is one of the remaining stains on the toilet seat of Canadian governance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tre Mac Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 21 hours ago, HerrDrFunk said: Looks like a holocaust denier too: Dear lord, is she having an allergic reaction to shellfish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dral Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 7 hours ago, nucklehead said: well I really have a hard time believing anyone could be that ignorant...so I'm leaning towards malicious You must not meet a lot of people in your day to day life then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Standing_Tall#37 Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 22 hours ago, PhillipBlunt said: I wonder how this useless turd of a human being, Lynn Beyak, would feel being forcibly taken from her home and driven to a dilapidated schoolhouse past 150 Mile House, where she'd be subject to be woken up at dawn, forced to eat gruel, and then "reprogrammed" by having the Jesus beaten out of her. Her comments clearly indicate that she is one of the remaining stains on the toilet seat of Canadian governance. What's bad about beyond 150 mile house??? I would think the premise of this is bad anywhere you go. Then you have this creep here who played a part in this and in the area was widely suspected of dinking children there; http://m.huffpost.com/ca/entry/6978916 it was nice to see charges laid, finally... but it came as no surprise to many that the charges were dropped after he won his immunity necklace for being involved in the 2010 Olympics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice orca Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 20 hours ago, Tre Mac said: Dear lord, is she having an allergic reaction to shellfish? Probably was half in the bag at the Senate's bar..the house of sober second thought..my ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alflives Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 What does our Senate do, exactly? It appears like a whole lot of political patronage appointments, with a couple honest people sprinkled in. Yet, what do the do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice orca Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 12 minutes ago, Alflives said: What does our Senate do, exactly? It appears like a whole lot of political patronage appointments, with a couple honest people sprinkled in. Yet, what do the do! Scam the Canadian tax payer, get drunk and make big wind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alflives Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 2 minutes ago, ice orca said: Scam the Canadian tax payer, get drunk and make big wind. And live in Mexico. I forgot his name, but I remember one Senator living full time in Mexico. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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