Thread by @AdamCatalyst

A thread on the ”Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls” inquiry (MMIWG)…

The MMIWG was always a sham.

We knew upfront that most murdered and missing Indigenous people were men, but there was no will to investigate this, unless the focus was only on women.

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When the inquiry was in its proposal phase, I inquired with Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett as to why the inquiry was going to ignore the majority of Indigenous murdered and missing cases. Her response was something along the lines of this…

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“Indigenous women occupy a spiritually important space within Indigenous culture.”

Bullshit. Since when does Indigenous spirituality guide crime inquiries?

Let’s call this what it really was.
1. Guilt laundering.
2. Political opportunism.
3. Intersectional profiteering.

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Many Indigenous groups protested, as they wanted the Inquiry to include their missing fathers, brother, and sons. They wanted an inquiry into their missing and murdered community members, regardless of sex or gender.

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Paternalistic progressives and most mainstream media did a great job of drowning out these Indigenous voices. They selectively promoted the voices of the Indigenous people whose demands fit their narrative (“there is an epidemic of violence against women and LGBT people”).

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And so, we held an inquiry with a foregone conclusion that the problem was sexism and racism, and then designed the inquiry accordingly. We falsely justified the purposeful omission of most of the case studies and evidence as resect for the demands of the Indigenous people.

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It was transparently clear from the design of the inquiry that we had little interest in bettering the lives of the Indigenous people in this country. The fates of Indigenous people in this post-colonial Canada has always been intertwined, regardless of gender or sex.

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Any honest inquiry would need to look at the whole scope of the problem, and make recommendations based on the full scope of evidence. But this was not an honest inquiry. This was an intersectional hustle, designed to profit off of sexism, racism, and homophobia.

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Did anyone, *really* not know what the inquiry report would say? Is *anyone* surprised that its findings are identical to the identity politics causes of the day, or that the takeaway message is 100% consistent with the current moral fashions and trends?

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And so here we are, with findings that tell us that sexism, racism, and homophobia and rampant and really really bad. And how do we tell who the sexists, racists, and homophobes are? Simple, they refuse to use the word “genocide,” shamelessly abused in the report findings.

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This sham of an inquiry leaves us with a bizarre combination of old recommendations that were entirely predictable, and new recommendations that are entirely nonsensical. For instance, the report advocates that:

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- We need less Indigenous people incarcerated, so they can care for their community, to help end cycles of poverty and violence.

- We should increase the sentencing for those who murder Indigenous women.

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Since most Indigenous women are murdered by other Indigenous people, increasing the mandatory sentencing will incarcerate more Indigenous people for longer, thus presumably continuing the cycle of poverty and violence. This is $54 million dollar advice?

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To be fair, the report does make some seemingly sound recommendations. But is there one, single, prudent recommendation in the report that was’t present in a previous report? Is there *anything* new we have learned?

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As it was designed, the inquiry was a resounding success. Certain virtue-signalling politicians receive the media attention they desired. A multitude of lawyers, investigators, and intersectional grifters get to pad their resumes, and are paid handsomely for it.

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The media will gets its story, and a divisive buzzword, “genocide,” that they can sell for ad revenue.

We will all take part by implementing more land acknowledgements, and commitments to “de-colonize” our institutions, and absolutely nothing important will change.

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Years from now, when our First-Nations people still live in a second class state, our guilt will overcome us again, and we will hold yet another inquiry. We will pay a select group of individuals a premium to tell us a combination of what we already know and want to hear.

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We already know that racism, sexism, and homophobia are bad, and that living conditions on reservations are poor, and that cycles of poverty lead to high risk and criminal behaviour, which leads to a disproportionate amount of a fractured community behind bars.

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Here’s an idea. The next time we feel guilty, let’s not waste $56 million. Let’s just hand that money over to Indigenous community leaders to help build up their communities as they see fit, whether that be for better plumbing, education, social services, or an inquiry.

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Our paternalistic solutions only serve ourselves. They are the ones who live there. I trust them more than anyone else to manage their community.

Lastly, abusing the word “genocide” helps no-one. No community was ever lifted out of poverty or crime because of word usage.

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