Thoughts on the Canadian indigenous schools with “mass graves”

There used to be an orphanage close to where I live. It was built in the 1800s to provide housing and education to homeless or abused kids. When they excavated the site recently they found a “mass grave” (1/x)

...not filled with indigenous kids, but white orphan kids. During times of war or depression, the home would take on 4x more kids than it was able to hold. Before modern medicine, disease spread so quickly. Child mortality was off the charts, no matter how wealthy you were.

In the 1800s, the average child mortality rate was almost 50%.

46% of kids didn’t make it past 5 years old. People today have zero concept of how common death was in those times.

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Joel Berry

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13 Jul

https://twitter.com/KSPrior/status/1413646638988603395

“So weird when people who oppose class envy dismiss arguments they disagree with by attributing them to class envy.”

According to KSP, if someone thinks something is bad, yet they understand that that bad thing does exist, that means they’re being inconsistent?

https://twitter.com/KSPrior/status/1413646638988603395

The only way I can square this truly bizarre take from her is that she appears to be looking at Marxism as purely descriptive of certain realities yet she’s arguing with people who oppose some of the clearly PREscriptive elements of Marxism for how to organize society.

What blows me away is that a highly educated person like KSP would actually not recognize the disconnect here. It’s what leads people to believe these people are calculating, disingenuous liars. But I think the more likely scenario is...

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Joel Berry

@JoelWBerry

30 Jun

The thing that attracted men to Braveheart’s William Wallace was the same thing that attracted them to a quiet, frail psychology professor from Canada. It was never about the blood and gore and machismo. It was the appeal to responsibility and transcendent meaning.

I’ve been hearing from the “he/him” Exvangelicals that it was mainly weak, inadequate men who were so captured by Braveheart. That may very well be true. I might consider myself one of them-and that’s the point. Inadequate men feel their need for growth more deeply.

We need an ideal to shoot for. For the Christian, that’s Christ. But we also know that mythic themes and archetypes in stories can help to drive that truth home in new ways something. God uses all kinds of stuff.

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Joel Berry

@JoelWBerry

17 Jun

I understand conservatives feeling defensive about Juneteenth, since Democrats are cynical racists who never miss an opportunity to divide Americans.

But I think Juneteenth will prove to be healing. American goodness and American ideals freed the slaves. Let’s celebrate it.

Fun fact-the first state to ban slavery was Vermont- just one year after the declaration was signed in 1776. That’s 30 YEARS before Great Britain banned it!

America led the world in ending an institution that’s been around since the beginning of civilization. That’s my country.

The danger I think a lot of Conservatives sense with Juneteenth is that the Left will do everything they can to make this a divisive holiday. White people will be told they’re not allowed to celebrate it. Antifa communists will try to turn it into a day of rioting.

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Joel Berry

@JoelWBerry

9 Apr

Black students going to progressive colleges and committing white supremacist hate hoaxes against their own community is a bizarre phenomenon. It happens several times a year now. I really want to know what is going on psychologically with a person who does that.

I have a theory—and this is just a theory. I wonder if black students come to college expecting to encounter the overt racism you often see in poor communities and instead encounter something worse-more insidious: white liberal coddling & condescending racism...

They enter the University, full of white progressives, who I think are the most racist people in our country right now. They deal with this babying, patronizing leftist racism that is just as dehumanizing as any other kind of racism, but they are in an environment where the...

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