The Evil of the Residential Schools

 

Lejac Residential School

It is surprisingly obvious, given the general outcry, that the official “narrative” on the Indian Residential Schools in Canada is false. There was no attempt to either wipe out the Indians, deprive them of their culture, or abuse or neglect Indian children. It is all a wild conspiracy theory. The actual report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the press releases of the Indian bands in Kamloops and Marieval, although trying to mislead, judiciously avoid telling any actual lies, on which they could, after all, be called out. 

Nevertheless, the media and the politicians seem to want to give a megaphone to the lie that something nefarious was going on in the schools as schools, as opposed to the inevitable presence of some individual bad personnel. They get excitable should anyone openly doubt this.

What is going on? Are they mad?

My thesis until now has been the consciousness of guilt over abortion produced a felt need to scapegoat. Ideally some scapegoat who supposedly mistreated children. Ideally the very same moral authority, the Catholic Church, that has been calling them out over abortion. “I know you are, but what am I?”

But the recent Leger poll, reported here yesterday, suggests there is something else going on. The average Canadian apparently does not feel such shame, perhaps does not feel responsible for abortion, and is not going along with the masquerade.

Another possible explanation is that the secular power elite hates religion as an alternative power centre. This was the reasoning behind Mao’s Cultural Revolution. He wanted to smash Confucianism and the Buddhist temples. The band chiefs may hate the Church as the sole check on the reserves against their absolute power. And the power elite in the rest of Canada may also hate those meddlesome priests; the existence of an accepted moral code is the only thing that ever keeps a ruling class in check. THis would be why they hate as well as the statues of moral exemplars of the past, the Dundas’s, the Gandhi’s, the John Paul II’s. They want to discredit anyone with a high moral reputation. These offer the general public models against which their own acts can be measured and found wanting.