• Evkob (they/them)@lemmy.ca
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      “Indigenous people fought each other and did bad things, therefore committing a genocide is OK.”

      What a lovely & compelling argument.

      Also, sorry for assuming you’d be able to recognize that “Canadian” included the history of British and French colonists in what became Canada.

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          @Evkob @nutpantz

          Genocide is legally defined as any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group: killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children to another group. This definition is established by the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention.

          Do you deny any of these acts occurred upon the indigenous people of these territories now named Canada by European settlers and their descendants?

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          Residential School Denialism is one of the reasons Indigenous people feel so helpless - because their generational struggles with it make them feel less-than-human; the violence and the destruction of culture was forced upon them, en masse. Hearing people say that it didn’t happen insults and belittles their suffering.

          Source: I’m a white guy living in an Indigenous community.