Mattias Desmet’s book The Psychology of Totalitarianism details the rise of mass formations in which crowd psychology behaves like an engine with no governor. These movements begin with an initial incident that soon takes on a life of its own as narratives spin out of control into outright absurdity. The current obsession with alleged graves in residential schools seems to fit that bill.
“They should not be pursuing those who are revealing information. They should, in fact, be looking for those records. They should be looking at what it is that we do know, as opposed to trying to pursue witnesses.”
“Many are in unmarked graves, but there are also accounts of bodies that were buried within walls. There are bodies buried in the hills or by river sides, and bodies that were never found after children died trying to escape the schools,” she said.
“TRC commissioner Marie Wilson said those who were responsible for the deaths of thousands of Indigenous children should be brought to justice.”
Well, Jean Chretien is still alive if they are looking for someone. They also know where PET is buried if they want to do an Charles II / Oliver Cromwell kind of thing.
And then when they have overwhelming evidence both of mass murders of Jews by the million and a global conspiracy by powerful, blatantly and unapologetically evil people to destroy the Jews that has literally endured for MILLENNIA, they pretend either that the Jews had it coming or that the Jews made it up to get money or attention.
Well, the joke’s on them. When the Empire of Mammon finally does away with itself, the Indians will finally die out with it. And nothing of value will be lost when what passes for their culture is flung into history’s dustbin.
They envy the Jews because they think the Holocaust industry is an excellent way to fiddle whitey out of his money? Oh, to be there to see their faces when the Creator metes out a punishment that leaves them genuinely envying the Six Million.
Or alternatively, maybe the “Holocaust” is as bullshit as the residential schools.
umm, no. Ever been out of the country, like Germany? Seen these things?
I don’t know what’s in your heart, but I’ll tell you this much—that’s what the elites want you to think, so you’ll blame Israel for all your woes and not them.
The Holocaust industry is real enough, people exploiting the memory of the Six Million to cheat decent people out of their money, and use it for anything BUT ensuring nothing like the Holocaust ever happens again.
It’s said the elites will be never forgive the Jews for the Holocaust. They certainly didn’t meaningfully atone for it or even learn anything worthwhile from the experience—except that calling someone a Jew-hater is a useful excuse for doing away with him, even if all he’s done is anger the elites (often by being a genuine Righteous Gentile).
It was a perfect excuse to see off the Nazi leadership, never mind that the Allies mostly were sorry they hadn’t done it first and were mostly angry at the Nazis for stabbing THEM in the back. If Hitler had only killed Jews he’d be remembered as a hero. It was bombing the City of London and invading the Soviet Union that turned the great and the good against him.
“The Holocaust industry is real enough, people exploiting the memory of the Six Million to cheat decent people out of their money, and use it for anything BUT ensuring nothing like the Holocaust ever happens again. ”
That’s true ( and respect to you for admitting it). The Climate Change Industry and the Residential School Industry are better known and better funded these days, I think mostly because these last couple of generations not only know much about WW2 but don’t care to learn about it, either.
“Those who forget the lessons of history…”
And the evidence of these claims is where? (no sarcasm) Without evidence, it is just hearsay and hearsay is inadmissible in a court of law because, without evidence, anyone can claim anything, turning the process of jurisprudence into a meaningless comedy of errors.
Trying a case and the people that might be involved in the public media, again without evidence, is a kangaroo court and slanderous.
That’s why they’re not taking it to court. They’re appealing to government, who have no need for evidence.
The SCoC has already ruled that indigenous story testimony shall be given the same weight as evidence…
Except when real evidence proves otherwise.
“Except when real evidence proves otherwise.”
In a perfect world, maybe. This being Canada, I’d have to see that to believe it…I suspect that such evidence would be suppressed instead.
Any physical remains evidence at rezzy grave sites? No?
It’s a H-O-A-X.
I am always struck by how maudlin and highly selective the writer’s compassion is, and how avid these self serving drama queens are to exploit it. All the literate adults in the room know that history is tragic.
Genealogists are confronted by death and suffering routinely, it is mundane. What I object to, is the childish expectation that it must be sinister when people of the past don’t live up to today’s standards, even though they didn’t have the means or the resources.
News flash the hemisphere is loaded with forgotten and unmarked graves. Life before potable water, antibiotics, energy, safer vehicles, equipment, and employment ….sucked for everyone.
Maybe civilization and advanced technology do lead to increasing feminization and infantilization. Many seem cocooned from reality and lack any sense of historical perspective.
If you were born in 1900, you had a 50/50 chance of becoming an orphan by the time you were ten. Around a quarter of children died in the first year of life, and around half died before reaching adulthood. We all know about the women who died from complications of pregnancy but also many men, fathers, died in accidents. Tuberculosis is believed to have killed 1 in 7 of the people who have ever lived, and scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid fever, yellow fever, rheumatic fever, pellagra, influenza, diarrhea, smallpox, cholera, strep, parasites, malnutrition and even simple infections, a tooth absess, a broken bone hung over everyone’s head.
The cocooned generations have no concept of real life threats. Anyway, I’m not sure that it is all their fault, since routine suffering is something outside their experience. They seem to overcompensate by hystrionically dramatizing and magnifying mundane tragedy, selectively and exploitively.
Sorry, slightly off topic, but these same gas hags, the ones who flippantly cheer for Hitler, are also ignorant of Nazi ideology. They have no idea that the Nazis emulated and borrowed rhetoric from Jim Crow and the KKK. IOW, today’s Nazi cheerleaders support the KKK.
…maybe all this has to do with the estrogen they coat pop/beer cans so we don’t taste the metal…
Unfortunately, you are probably closer to the truth than you know. I don’t think it was planned just the side effects of greed.
So children died and were dumped in unmarked graves? How about doing the civilized thing then: Exhume them and give them a proper burial. They do it for soldiers. Shouldn’t these indigenous kids be given a sendoff in accordance with the relevant indigenous burial rites? No? Why not?
That would be inconvenient, because there aren’t any where they’re saying.
You dig up a thousand “unmarked grave sites” and you find one (1) body whose grave was marked with a wooden marker that fell over and rotted away, that’s going to be pretty embarrassing to the Important People who are stirring up all this fuss.
But hey, the chiefs all want a new pickup truck, so roll out the money wagon. This is as good an excuse as any.
I think they have dug in some locations, and found nothing. I also think that not all chiefs and tribes have jumped on this bandwagon. they have jobs. Most of this stuff seems to come from the UN and its subservients.
I saw an interview with a native woman who was some kind of elder. She plainly said (about one of the locations) that it was a cimetary, that everybody knew it, and that some non-native residents were buried there too. Of course,she was given no air time.
“I think they have dug in some locations, and found nothing””
They did…and their response was to express their disappointment but vow to “keep looking”.
“I also think that not all chiefs and tribes have jumped on this bandwagon. they have jobs.”
True. One of the chiefs in Kamloops tried to inject some caution into the discussion when the “200 unmarked graves of native children” scam was first broached (the fact that the cemetery there was established *before* the residential school, for one thing), but he was told to be quiet. Can’t derail the gravy train, after all…
It’s also profitable, make the claim via pissy pant’s media and the government gives you millions to do basically nothing to prove the allegations.
They’ve suffered a complete schism with reality, speculating wildly over something for which there is little to no evidence.
I think that finally the silent majority is getting more than a little fedup with the remakes of history. Not only is it untrue but there is a question of what is the point of it. More money paid out supposedly for compensation to long dead people? Unfortunately Kinew is on the band wagon with the remake of history declaring Louis Riel an honorary premier of Manitoba. He wasn’t one, he isn’ t one and this is just another sop to placate his indigenous voter base. Riel has his own place in history, he was an influential leader who shaped much of what Manitoba was in his time. Manitoba has moved on now. And next time be careful who you vote for. Vote for those who think forward, not backwards.
Very sensible assessment of Riel. He was instrumental in keeping the United States out of what is now the western provinces. But it’s ludicrous to award him the title of Premier of Manitoba.
With apologies to old Samuel:
Bodies, bodies, everywhere
But no one stops to think
As I mentioned the day this story broke: ground-penetrating radar cannot detect what they were claiming it had detected. The story was as believable as a claim they’d identified 225 unmarked graves with a dowsing rod. Nobody should be demanding even an exhumation until the grifters come up with something other than lies and smoke.
The Indian industry thrives on guilt and increasingly dual statism. In the absence of proof, the graves and residential school “murders” is a prop in the guilt mining and grift business. The non-Indian and off-reserve taxpayers fund both our deranged three levels of government plus the burgeoning deranged “nations” (thanks to the SCOC). I’m not sure who in government represents taxpayers as whenever any kind of unending and progressively more expensive “settlement” negotiated, no quid pro quo (no finality of claims) is ever included and given that no taxpayer alive or as yet alive bares any personal responsible for said infinite number of grievances, the game needs an end whistle. Abolition of the Indian Act (along with it’s inherent apartheid) and normalization under existing levels of government, for example.
“…who in government represents taxpayers..”
I’ll just recycle the old saying that when a public sector union sits at the table with government to negotiate terms/contracts, nobody is looking out for the taxpayer.
Zero sum.. How many native children have died yearly since the schools have closed?.. Where are they buried and do they have a marker on their grave?.. If you going to hold Canada and the Church up to a zero sum number then you must also hold yourself up to the same standard..
But it’s not about that is it.. Unfair that they lost the war.. Unfair that we won.. Unfair that we tried to help and unfair that it didn’t work.. Welcome to the world..
Someone here a couple of months ago, quoted a piece from a Francis Widdowson and Albert Howard book called Disrobing The Aboriginal Industry.
Widdowson is an admitted lefty, however, the book is a great read. Eyeopening.