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Terry Glavin: The left's idea of residential school 'denialism' is a conspiracy theory

It is insanity to equate residential schools with the Holocaust

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The Senate human rights committee’s vote this week to criminalize the phantasm of “residential schools denialism” by way of a last-minute amendment to a Liberal party hate speech bill that was already hopelessly compromised can probably be best understood as an absurdly unserious pantomime. Or, if you like, you can think of what happened at that committee on Monday night as a nearly effortless fusion of the denialism canard with the Liberals’ persistent efforts to intrude by legislation on constitutionally-protected free speech rights.

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Either way, you have to navigate through a weird hall of mirrors before you notice that what’s at least partly going on here is just the latest effort to bully Canadians to just shut up and accept their status as the citizens of a racist, genocidal settler state, and uninvited guests in their own country.

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The first and most telling giveaway about “residential schools denialism” is that its content is always occluded by subjective, cartoonishly dogmatic edicts governing how the legacy of residential schools is to be taught, memorialized and comprehended in law, policy and the news media. At its core is the proposition that “denialists” actually exist, and they wear a disguise of rational skepticism........

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