New_Pen3861 t1_iu3rnvw wrote on October 28, 2022 at 10:18 AM

Reply to comment by VedsDeadBaby in Canada House of Commons unanimously agrees to describe residential schools as genocide by shpydar

Categorizing what happened at the schools with events like the Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide is right thought.

TrainingObligation t1_iu4sbxp wrote on October 28, 2022 at 3:29 PM

Genocide is not a binary condition, there's a scale and while it's not as obvious or inhumanely atrocious as the two you mention, what happened at the schools is definitely further along that scale than you think.