I'm just wondering what the sub's feelings are about this sort of thing.
I'm suspicious of any narrative that accuses Canada's past as racist. Are there good counternarrative sources to this sort of training/narrative?
Any indiginous conservatives who have oppinions on this?
More recently, Residential schools were awful in principle. Children should be allowed to grow up with their parents. They were also awful in implementation and resulted in a lot of child abuse. Their purpose was explicitly racist: they wanted to remove native children from the reserves and teach them "white" ways, and have them forget their language and culture.
A lot of the conservative movement in the states supports family and community, and is very against child abuse. I agree with those principles. Residential schools were wrong.
I don't think colonization was racist, like others have said it was about profit, exploration, and later a component of settling in the new world was about fleeing famine or persecution. And viruses killed a lot and left tribes unable to defend themselves, which is unfortunate but completely unavoidable.