Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 02:55:05 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: [OT] The mass graves that never were? References: <20240530193243.00006135@example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Usenapp/0.92.2/l for MacOS Message-ID: <3qSdnQWcBIGUocT7nZ2dnZfqnPednZ2d@giganews.com> Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 02:55:05 +0000 Lines: 32 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-S1SVMWaR7ajGmDTYaOeISdmmHRkqnkInfhiJitGbcGOeObwJx1zZnlN/lS24cPgM3yD2o/7NozH1xLA!0PLzIKjvQRHxBAo+oLmwQOaySwRVx7Y1zQicr2tT+J7MYGUpFYWANwWWe1FcPbkk0etY2JdZmmlp X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2589 X-Original-Lines: 29 On May 30, 2024 at 4:32:43 PM PDT, "Rhino" wrote: > The National Post seems to be saying that the whole story of mass > graves at the Indian residential schools was a massive hysteria based > on a very little. > > > https://nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-glavin-canada-slowly-acknowledging-there-never-was-a-mass-grave > > I believe the story of mass graves at residential schools was widely > reported around the world when they were first mentioned in 2021; it was > certainly big news here in Canada. Now, three years later and with many > millions of dollars of tax money spent on getting to the truth, > apparently not one of the alleged graves has been opened so not one > dead body can be confirmed, let alone the hundreds that were alleged. > > As the article mentions, "denialism" - assertions that these "anomalies" > aren't bodies or, that if they are bodies, they weren't murdered but > succumbed to tuberculosis or other diseases - is essentially a > thoughtcrime in this country so I'm not going to say anything of the > kind in case someone decides to come after me. I'll just leave you to > read the article and come to your own conclusions. > > One final thought. Given the massive amounts of money that has been > spent and the paltry amount of insight gained from this expenditure, a > reasonable person might wonder who benefited from these claims in the > first place? Hey, at least y'all aren't paying $1 billion per EV charging station the way we are!