Some People Are "Special"

As one can plainly see:

Several churches in Canada, including some prominent Catholic churches, have been burned in the wake of revelations that unmarked graves have been located on the grounds of former Indian residential schools that were run by churches.

There was no immediate indication about the cause of Thursday’s fire near Redberry Lake.

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The day after Canada Day, burned churches and toppled statues made the headlines. How did a movement that was intended to bring awareness and education suddenly turn violent?

 

It was always violent, stupid.

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No, the left is a group of violent, backward thugs who refuse to listen to reason. Burning churches is a symptom of a larger ideological problem that will soon extend elsewhere:

Let’s play this back differently. Suppose a series of mosques had been attacked around the country and most of the perpetrators belonged to communities with a grievance against Islam, such as, for example, that their ancestors had been forcibly converted by the sword.

Would Trudeau and others have then said the acts were “understandable” given the context? You can be sure they would have been called out as Islamophobic and not excused because of the history of cultural genocide, against which the perpetrators were purportedly expressing their anguish.

For the progressive left, it appears that acts of violence may be condoned if the cause is one they consider just, but otherwise condemned.

 

But Justin would rather blame this on the same idiots who would vote for him regardless of his idiocy or the euphemisms that imply that being of a different race is some kind of process (and here I thought that identities were fluid).

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Now, people are mad:

Statues of two queens that were torn down by protesters on the Manitoba legislature grounds will be rebuilt, Premier Brian Pallister said Wednesday.

 

I don't even care for the monarchy but I say build huge-@$$ statues of Queen Victoria on every reservation and in every park in Quebec.

F--- you, whiners.

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The First Nation, east of Regina, is the first to sign an agreement with Ottawa that sees jurisdiction over children returned to the community. Federal legislation enabling an overhaul of Indigenous child welfare was passed in 2019 and came into force last year.

"We never gave up our sovereignty of our children," Delorme said.

 

What can go wrong there?:

Throughout her five years, Phoenix was in the care of the child welfare system for the first few months of her life, and again, for a time, at age three. She was shuffled between the homes of Kematch, Sinclair, his sisters, and his friends Kim Edwards and Rohan Stephenson, never attending daycare, nursery school, or any community programs. When Kematch and her new partner, Wesley Mackay, moved her from Winnipeg to Fisher River and then killed her, nobody knew she was missing, except the boy who saw her die. Meanwhile, at least 13 times throughout her life, Winnipeg Child and Family Services received notice of concerns for Phoenix’s safety and well-being from various sources, the last one coming three months before her death. Throughout, files were opened and closed, often without a social worker ever laying eyes on Phoenix.

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In Nunavut, rates of child abuse are 10 times higher than in the rest of Canada, according to an Iqaluit-based child advocacy group, the Umingmak Centre.

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In cases of physical child maltreatment, a family member was most frequently self-reported as the adult perpetrator for Indigenous people and non-Indigenous people (74% and 70%, respectively). In cases of sexual child maltreatment, for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people a family member (44% and 37%, respectively) or an acquaintance (35% and 38%, respectively) was more often self-reported as the adult responsible.

 

This pandering overlooks the brokenness that already exists in these communities that no one will address ever.