Canada: Hundreds of unmarked graves found at residential school

Re:Canada: Hundreds of unmarked graves found at residential ... by graeme on Thursday June 24, 2021 @09:00PM (#27625922)

I certainly agree none of this is news per se. I disagree that most people know about it.

I think most people were aware on some level of what residential schools were and had an opinion that bad stuff happened there. I do not think most people knew there was high levels of death. Even though that was quite clear from the report.

The other key thing is social media was not big in the era of the truth and reconciliation report. You could easily tune out the details or take it in passively. But finding the graves now, in 2021, allows for virality.

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Re:Canada: Hundreds of unmarked graves found at residential ... by stevenhuang on Friday June 25, 2021 @12:25AM (#27627143)

For what it's worth, elementary schools in Vancouver, BC were taught about residential schools as part of regular curriculum. I know our classes had it.

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Re:Canada: Hundreds of unmarked graves found at residential ... by graeme on Friday June 25, 2021 @10:19AM (#27631071)

Yeah but did they teach that up to 40% of children died?

My argument was that most knew about the schools but not about death counts.

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