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And everyone looks at the Germans for being weird about the Jewish Holocaust.
Both my parents were survivors of residential schools in the 40s and 50s. It happened, it was real, it was terrible.
The fact that idiots are out there denying it means that this history is continuing to happen today.
First off, I'm sorry this happened to your family and others.
Growing up in the BC interior in the 1970s what has surprised me about this whole awful situation is that we (white kids in public schools hanging out with lots of First Nations kids) didn't know about it at all. It wasn't mentioned by anyone. There was lots of anti-FN racism in my family and in my neighbourhood; I'm surprised even that this wasn't discussed in a derogatory manner. There was just NO talk about it.
The fact that you are acknowledging this and identifying it as wrong is a great sign of progress.
We can't expect the world to change overnight ... but any change even if it is one person is progress.