It’s easy to downplay the residential school system. Here’s one example: It wasn’t as bad as the Holocaust, which saw millions of people exterminated, or the Holodomor, which saw millions more intentionally starved to death. That doesn’t mean it didn’t harm people, but it wasn’t as bad as the full-on genocides that had happened in the same time period. There, I just did it.

It’s pretty hard to trust the system when its major components get basic facts wrong — and insist on sticking to them years later{ai:summary}The residential school system is often compared to historical genocides, but some argue it was less severe than events like the Holocaust or Holodomor. This perspective does not negate the harm caused by the system. Such comparisons can downplay the significant impact of the residential schools on Indigenous communities. #history

Jamie Sarkonak: The slippery slope reality of criminalizing residential school 'denialism'

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