One of the first images to confront visitors when they enter the new Canadian War Museum is not about war but about shame.
The painting of a dazed Kyle Brown, the only Canadian soldier imprisoned in the 1993 fatal torturing of Somali teenager Shidane Arone, is set on the portrait wall between a drowning sailor, a laughing war bride, a decorated war hero and a soldier with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Its prominence is a clue that this is a museum with a difference, one that doesn’t shy away from the painful, the shocking, the controversial. One that tells stories of ordinary people and turns heroism on its head.
No, the only legitimate history today is the Revisionist, Morally Relative History.
These people are pigs. Absolute pigs. I don’t think I’ve ever been as ashamed of my country as I am today.
Via Neale
The shame of elite Canadian self-hate
In their own museum. In their own country. In front of their own children.
This is going to be nasty, brutish, and short.
The Canadian veteran and the Canadian people have been violently, viciously, mindlessly attacked by a group of self-hating…