• thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Whatever good was present at the Ossossané ossuary—where those who had not yet encountered the fullness of Truth honored their dead as best they knew how—is increased a thousandfold in the cemeteries of the residential schools, where baptized Christians were given Christian burials. Whatever natural good was present in the piety and community of the pagan past is an infinitesimal fraction of the grace rendered unto those pagans’ descendants who have been received into the Church of Christ. Whatever sacrifices were exacted in pursuit of that grace—the suffocation of a noble pagan culture; an increase in disease and bodily death due to government negligence; even the sundering of natural families—is worth it. [emphasis in the original]

    What the actual fucking fuck

      • BelovedOldFriend [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        He is appealing to a caricaturization of our beliefs, and that caricature is the trope. He himself does not believe that, he's just saying "okay fine lets pretend they even were noble, the whites were still in the right."