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Jamie Sarkonak: The slippery slope reality of criminalizing residential school ‘denialism’

It’s easy to downplay the residential school system. Here’s one example: It wasn’t as bad as the Holocaust, which saw millions of people exterminated, or the Holodomor, which saw millions more intentionally starved to death. That doesn’t mean it didn’t harm people, but it wasn’t as bad as the full-on genocides that had happened in the same time period. There, I just did it.

For now, a 911 call reporting this blasphemous paragraph won’t go far. But that could change.

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