Canada's Anti-Christian Mass Grave Hoax | Guests: Kruptos and Gio Pennacchietti | 9⧸6⧸23
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1 hour and 17 minutes
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175.18239
Summary
In this episode of the podcast, I chat with two of my favorite Canadians about the controversial issue of Indian Residential Schools in Canada, and why they might not have been as bad as you think they were. We talk about the history of these schools, what they were really like, and what they meant for the indigenous people of Canada.
Transcript
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Hey, everybody. How's it going? Thanks for joining me this afternoon.
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I've got a great stream with some great guests that I think you're really going to enjoy.
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So, if you're like me, you're on Twitter, and all of this news just kind of rolls past you constantly.
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It's a weird place because, in some ways, you encounter a lot of bad stuff that you never would have encountered.
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But you also run into many stories that otherwise would have flown entirely under the radar
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if you had not been kind of plugged into kind of this hub of the journalistic consciousness in the tech space.
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And one of the things that kind of came up, it didn't get much play in America,
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but it did make some waves kind of on the Twitter sphere,
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was the fact that there was this scandal going on in Canada about these residential schools,
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these indigenous groups, these children who might have been buried in these mass graves,
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kind of the churches that were burned into response to this,
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a whole bunch of different controversy that surrounded this.
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Now, a little while ago, it became clear that many parts of this story
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and that has now kind of trickled its way into the more mainstream press,
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the United States, the UK, other areas have become more aware of this narrative.
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get an idea of what was going on and what we've discovered,
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and joining me to do that today are two of my favorite Canadians,
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We, of course, have the great sub-stacker, Kruptos.
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Absolutely, and of course, one of our favorites, he is an artist, he is a scholar,
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he is a co-host of a podcast with one of our other favorites.
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And the reason I don't have a fez is because I feel like serious subject matter,
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so I'm putting on my serious hat metaphysically.
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This is, yeah, this is the most serious I've ever seen, Geo,
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so that definitely speaks to the gravity of the situation.
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I appreciate him, you know, kind of bringing the more somber tone to this,
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because I think it is something that is pretty significant and something we need to look at in real detail.
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So, guys, you know, I'm not sure which one of you kind of want to take us out on this a little bit,
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but most Americans are probably completely unfamiliar with the history here.
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What are residential schools, what do they have to do in relation to the indigenous population in Canada,
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Well, I think Krumpto should go first because, not to age docs, not to dry snitch,
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but he's been around a lot longer than both of us, especially in Canada, so.
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Yeah, the thing about the residential schools is they were a largely,
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they were largely a progressive solution to solve the, quote-unquote, Indian problem, in a sense.
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So, you know, Canada was put together as a mix of,
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you had the British conquering the French and the native tribes,
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and in, you know, rather than, say, annihilate everybody,
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they reached settlements with both the French and also with the natives in terms of reserves,
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and over the years, these settlements have been negotiated and renegotiated.
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Now, the reserves have experienced all kinds of problems.
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For whatever reason, the native population just has an intolerance,
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like some people, like some people groups have intolerance to milk or cheese.
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The native population does not react well to alcohol,
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even several drinks can basically make them alcoholics.
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So then what happens to the kids of some of these folks that have been,
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you know, in a sense, damaged through the process of conquest,
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the reserves, just the sort of the marginalized place
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that native Canadians have been in Canadian society.
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So you get these kids who are sometimes parentless
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or the parents are unable to take care of them.
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Then you have this whole progressive idea, you know, ideology in a sense,
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we're going to help the native population integrate into Canada.
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And so you begin to pack up a lot of these kids
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and you put them into schools that are government funded,
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but end up being run by churches, by the Catholic Church,
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and there's no denying some of these places were not good places
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there are also some very good stories that come out of it,
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like people who will claim that their lives were saved
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by the residential schools and so forth and so forth.
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So you often have underfunded teachers, pastors, priests
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trying to do the best that they can with many of these kids
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well, maybe this whole sense of forced enculturation
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and eventually they were shut down, like, what,
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The last major one was in the 1960s, if I recall,
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well, this was a terrible era in Canadian history, right?
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And so then you have a chief and a tribe out in BC
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So somebody takes some ground penetrating radar,
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on the ground penetrating radar to be skeletons.
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is some churches got burned in response to this
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And then realizing that he'd made a big blunder,
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well, of course, attacks on churches are uncalled for.
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we're north of 80 churches now have been set fire
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that, you know, there really isn't anything to this.
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Some kids did not end up dying of disease and neglect
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And so, you know, nobody wants to shy away from it.
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But at the same time, people say, like, listen,
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And the big question that many people asked was,
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completely in their traditional tribal mode of being.
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They need to be brought into kind of American culture.
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to continue your way as life as much as possible.
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a little bit because of the way this was framed.
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I remember one of the reasons this came on my radar
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I believe the Pope ended up apologizing for this.
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that the vast majority of these church burnings
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There maybe have been a few indigenous people involved,
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they do provide community centers and so forth.
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Well, I mean, Americans are British at one time,
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campaigns against the indigenous people in America.