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I came across this on a conservative forum, and it's a pretty damned sad thing to acknowledge that a small right wing online newspaper has a more accurate and coherent explanation about the whole residential school graves than in any mainstream media report I've seen to date. It calls out the inaccuracies of the media reports and has a graph from the truth and reconciliation commission report detailing the most common causes of death at residential schools. This report has the context all the mainstream media reports have lacked. When it comes to the coverage of graves identified near residential schools in three First Nations communities, the legacy media in Canada has done a tremendous disservice to all Canadians – especially First Nations. They have created a moral panic, and continue to fan the flames of racial division. This panic came to a breaking point over the weekend, when prominent statues were knocked over and at least 25 churches in Western Canada were either vandalized or completely burnt down. To make matters worse, several prominent commentators, including politicians, journalists, professors, lawyers and activists, excused the behaviour of the mob, explained away and justified these riots, and in some cases, even cheered them on. https://tnc.news/2021/07/07/six-things-the-media-got-wrong-about-the-graves-found-near-residential-schools/?fbclid=IwAR1hBFiREnGZhWU1VbuOa4D6LrQpCh7MLcgwT3atl3NJj5Q6s4sSegl65s4

Well it becomes obvious mainstream media has greatly mis-represented the residential school graves report. It seems they were very quick to report and sensationalize the story without any background investigation or reporting. They reported on it repeatedly in a way that caused hysteria among the Canadian population and did not present the true facts. As a result many people reacted in a predictable way, with anger and hysteria. Some went as far as pulling down and destroying statues. Others defaced churches and others burned churches down to the ground. Many politicians seemed to have accepted the media reports at face value and many did not strongly condemn the illegal acts and arson. As a result of these inflammatory reports, many cities even went as far as to cancel Canada Day celebrations. This new report goes into the details of what the misinformation was. Six things the media got wrong about the graves found near Residential Schools | True North (tnc.news) Since mainstream media got this issue so wrong, can they really be trusted in anything they report? Are they prone to automatically take the side of the left wing radical woke anarchists who seem bent on tearing down Canada? "A recent study by the consultancy firm Edelman found that 52% of Canadians believe most news outlets are more concerned with promoting their own ideology than telling the truth. Another 49% of Canadians surveyed believe journalists are “purposely trying to mislead people by saying things they know are false or gross exaggerations.” CBC restricts comments section to hide opposing voices | True North (tnc.news)

Never trust anyone by its word. Always doubt and be critical, even if it seems cynical but it isn't. Both political spectrums are absolutely retarded. You probably are retarded too, just like almost anyone, or at least very badly informed about subjects. But we're arrogant and think 'we know' better. Or we're else very interested in the subject matter which forces us to lie unconsciously to ourselves and everyone around us. Mainstream, independent, everyone has interests, bias, intellectual limitations. You can't base your opinion on blind trust in people, that's dumb.

not all authoritarian states interests are aligned they are not a monolith and the non-authoritarian states can exploit that to divide the authoritarian states against each other instead of against the non-authoritarian state that is what Nixon did when he went to China divide the Chinese against the Soviets instead of against America and it worked

that is on how people showing the number to support their views. I remembered that Men brought in more revenue in both sports (soccer / tennis) after people drilled drown into the number carefully. Back to soccer, it was because the US men team missed the world cup that time.

I don't have much trust in the MSM and I agree with those that think promoting ideology is more important than simple reporting of facts. The MSM is also more about entertainment and flashy headlines, just like clickbait. There are too many Charlie Chester's running the news/entertainment industry.

Just because you heard some woke leftists in the media call it genocide, you decide to go with that without having a clue of what it is all about. About 150,000 attended residential schools in a 100 year period and several thousand (4,000 to 6,000) died of likely mostly diseases and illness. No they did not wipe out the 150,000 aboriginals in schools. It impossible to have a rational discussion with someone who believes the red power radicals claims of genocide when you have no facts or proof of anything. The people who ran the schools were not killing students. We already know there was sexual abuse, physical abuse. But a lot of the people who worked in those schools are gone now. There may be some still alive from more recent times. But if you have any proof or factual information of crime, you should report it to the police.

I think that they lived far from home in a time before antibiotics, modern medicine, and easily accessible hospitals. I don’t assume that most priests, nuns, and teachers are murderers, pedophiles, or abusers. I think it was easier for bad people to be abusive in a residential school than a day school. I think abuse took place. I don’t think it was advocated systematically. I do think corporal punishment was used systemically because it was standard in all schools. That’s all I can say with any confidence.

Oh well, I'm sure Charles Anthony will be along to delete those posts any minute now. Quit your whining.