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Related: About this forumReconciliation not started in U.S.
From the article:
This was evident last month, when Pope Franciss decision not to apologize for the Roman Catholic Churchs role in the residential school system made headlines across Canada....
Like Canada, the U.S. also had a similar boarding school system for Indigenous children.
In fact, the Canadian residential school system was modelled on it; in 1879, Prime Minister John A. Macdonald sent Nicholas Davin to the U.S. to study its boarding schools for Indigenous children.
To read more:
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/faith/reconciliation-not-started-in-us-481819113.html
trotsky
(49,533 posts)But this smells like more whataboutism from you.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)That's going to be an uphill battle considering how many churches still see the missionary work they did in the New World as a net positive.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)This sounds as if you are following the 11th Commandment.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Prove me wrong if you want.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And demonstrating a reflexive behavior.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)I mean, you do it so much, it's become a habit for me to respond.
Go ahead and have your last word. You have dropped any pretense of defending your article, so I'm done.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)perhaps you will stop constructing with straw.
You are essentially arguing against something that you admitted having not read. The definitive illustration of the 11th Commandment and reflex behavior,
trotsky
(49,533 posts)And dispense with your whataboutism.
This is a church problem, no?
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And it is a problem concerning church schools that treated their First Nations students badly.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Thanks for explaining!