Thread by @sunnshiiny

JCCF and Koch dark money defend and fund the effort to spread doubt and denial.

Imagine having a debate whether the Holocaust or Rwanda massacres were real?

But because these deaths happened over several years, some people believe it’s a hoax?

bc.ctvnews.ca/ubc-cancels-ta…

The article says the film maker disputes the description of the graves as “mass graves,” not the fact graves were found.

The fact graves were found at a residential school at all is damning enough. But she wants to bicker about the description of dead children en masse.

It is incorrect to state these graves are mass graves.

Mass graves are when several people are murdered at once and buried together. Mass numbers of graves of children at a school is worse than a mass grave.

It means the genocide was sustained over several generations.

The attempt to undermine the impact of those facts is repugnant.

This isn’t free speech. It’s an attack on the legitimacy of the facts. By introducing the word “hoax” in any context regarding the graves of dead children, it undermines the legitimacy of the narrative.

And that’s all these depraved individuals are after. Sowing doubt. Convincing as many Canadians as possible to doubt the veracity of the claims of widespread abuse and violence in Indian Residential Schools.

And that is a despicable objective.

There is a reason the far right and Dominionist Christian community is motivated to do this. Because they are the ones responsible for the dead children. And responsibility implies reparations and compensation.

Zero sum game to grift the system and escape expensive payouts.

Most people don’t understand the overall impact of the church and super wealthy on economics. They see the outcome and believe the absence of dead children would have made the actions of these entities more acceptable, perhaps laudable.

But it doesn’t.

While indigenous people didn’t share the same concepts of property ownership and land title as Europeans, that’s irrelevant.

Europeans came to the Americas to plunder its natural resources. To take resources and make profits by selling them in Europe.

I don’t believe most Canadians realize the level of wealth that has been extracted and hoarded by European merchants, aristocrats and religious institutions since first contact.

Every resource extracted from North America and put on the open market is stolen property.

The scale of the theft is so large it’s difficult to visualize.

However, several current wealthy magnates and land owners in Canada & Europe have North American resources as the foundations of their wealth.

If we go back to first contact, monarchs, merchants and the wealthy were much less wealthy than after contact.

The treasuries of Spain, Britain, France, Denmark, Russia, the Netherlands, Portugal & several of their citizens were enriched by plundering North American resources.

What if all those profits were returned to the people who they rightfully belonged to? It would bankrupt Western Europe and collapse the global economy.

This is precisely what was done to indigenous peoples. Land & economies were stolen & destroyed to enrich wealthy Europeans.

Genocide was committed for generations to enable the reaping of the bountiful resources of North America. And it continues to present day.

Many are insulted by the term “settler” because it denotes negative criticism of their presence here in Canada.

But all those present in Canada who partook of those profits are responsible for the continued genocide of indigenous peoples. So I don’t believe “settler” is an appropriate term. Exploiters and servants are more descriptive of the role non indigenous people had in colonization.

Those who exploited the land & its resources benefitted from property that wasn’t theirs only to exploit & hoard profits. The servant class that accompanied them didn’t really have a choice but to survive. So all immigrants are not the same. This is my personal opinion of course.

Most people live their entire lives completely unaware (and disinterested) in how economies and markets function. Rather they get a job, pay their bills and don’t really understand how and why they require a job and to pay bills, they just do because that’s how things work.

But that’s not how things work. That’s how the wealth class have designed it to work.

The wealthy (monarchs, aristocrats and merchants) staked claims to property and resources and then charged others for access to the resources and products derived from them.

There is no precedent in ancient history that the wealthy have more rights to those resources. It was always “might makes right” (or force) that hoarded resources and charged for access. People used to pay with their labour before money was created.

Now it’s an exchange of one’s labour for money to acquire the necessities of life.

Those who labour for wages are not the decision makers regarding who owns what resources or land. They are the servant class. Middle or low incomes don’t matter. They all serve the wealth class.

It’s the monarchs, aristocrats and wealthy merchant class who make those decisions. That’s who plundered North American resources and that’s who is responsible for indigenous genocide. Then and now. And that’s who is paying for repugnant documentaries to sow doubt about genocide.

Politicians like Jason Kenney, small business owners, and the average worker are just servants to the elites. They maintain the system because they personally benefit. But it’s the wealth class who have designed the system to maintain control.

We are the ones who permit the wealth class to enforce this hierarchical system of plunder & pillage. They have no legitimate claim to withhold resources. None.

It’s just because they say so & their brutish ancestors who enforced restrictions of resources to their control.

Nothing but the human construct of law & property ownership maintains this system.

Which is why the wealth class pays so well to maintain property ownership as the primary focus of conservative & libertarian ideology.

The system is this way because society supports it to be.

The vast majority of people can’t envision any other way to do it. We vehemently guard our possessions and property because the notion of the absence of property ownership is a foreign concept. A paradigm shift. Many believe this to be Marxism. But it’s not.

It’s just a different way of viewing property and land. If there are no owners, then everyone can partake in resources without restrictions. Hoarding is unnecessary and counterproductive because it wastes precious resources. Priority shifts to preservation to sustain all in need.