Hey remember when they found over 200 bodies of native children buried behind a residential school and the world cared for… what, a week?
They’ve counted about 6,000-7,000 now, for those of you who do still care
It should NOT fall on Indigenous people’s shoulders to keep this known still. We’ve been doing that for generations at this point and NO ONE wants to listen to us.
We’re tired, mourning and constantly reopening our trauma and pain to keep people caring about us. It’s terrible.
I should start by noting that I am white, and not Canadian, and that if op wants me to remove this comment for any reason, please let me know.
This is a map of all the residential schools in Canada:
Each dot on this map represents a residential school. Blue dots mean the school is considered completely searched. Yellow dots mean they are either in the process of being searched or there are plans to be searched. Red dots indicate that no search has happened and that no search is currently planned
There were more than 130 residential schools in Canada. This map suggests that only six have been fully searched, and a little more than a dozen partially searched (I counted 15 yellow dots). That leaves at least 109 schools completely untouched.
Let that sink in; if 6,000-7,000 unmarked, indigenous children’s graves were found by searching less than a fifth of all the schools, how many are still undiscovered.
Wikipedia estimates that the body count could be over 50,000, and honestly, that could be a low estimate
[ID: A map of Canada with dozens of dots on it, 6 of which are blue and 7 of which are yellow; the rest are red. Later there is a screenshot from wikipedia reading, “Estimates range from 3,200 to over 50,000 children that were killed. Most of the recorded student deaths at residential schools took place before the 1950s. /end ID]
The residential school system was a calculated, open, and forthrightly declared attempt at the total genocide of all indigenous peoples in this country. It was literally meant to wipe them out entirely, through a combination of attrition and assimilation.
Never forget that this is what Canada is really built upon.
reminder that genocide doesn’t just include ending people’s lives, it includes eradicating their culture. forced assimilation of an entire people is an attempt at genocide.
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i had trouble picking up on certain expressions as a child so i didn’t understand what ‘let them eat cake’ was supposed to mean or why it was a bad thing i was like. aw that’s nice she’s giving the french peasants cake. why are people mad about this
BASICALLY it’s meant to represent that the person saying it (often attributed to marie antoinette, although she didn’t actually say it) is extremely out of touch and doesn’t understand poverty. like, in context it’s a rich person being told that poor people have no bread to eat and going “?? why don’t they just eat cake then???”, as if the problem was solely a lack of bread specifically and not, like, starvation. i guess a more modern analogue would be if a rich person was told that someone wasn’t able to find an apartment and they were like “ohh they should just get a house instead!!!”
This is a common misconception actually, cake in this context didn’t mean what we consider cake today, the original quote wasn’t suggesting they eat something more expensive in an out of touch way. Cake was the word for the leftover bits and by-products of some other food making process.
It’s more akin to telling someone who can’t afford to buy regular cheese just to just eat the cheaper cheese byproduct. Or if you can’t afford an item that actually works long term just buy the cheaper alternative that’ll break in a year. Bit more of a slap in the face than just obliviously being out of touch with the working class.
hmmm really? the original quote was written in french and isn’t actually cake, it’s “qu'ils mangent de la brioche”. my understanding is that brioche was considered a luxury at the time; i couldn’t find any sources about the term brioche being used in the 18th century to refer to leftover bits. where did you learn that, i’m curious to look into it?
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