To think the priests were assaulting and murdering those children to teach them stories like Sodom and Gomorrah and now they're being purged by flame with god's apparent approval.
:sicko-beaming:
Honestly a very small price to pay for all they put those kids through.
It's an interesting escalation. I'm curious to find out more details about it, specifically whether it's coordinated or 15~ separate lone wolves. If it points to a wider insurrection then it's more stating that there is a price rather than charging one. If it's only lone wolves, it will probably game out like arson during the BLM protests which radicalised the opposition without achieving anything concrete. I can only imagine how rabid Canadian chuds are right now and they can already torched both a totem pole recently and that fishery last year.
Edit: Don't name any names.
The chuds are absolutely frothing mad - at least online (hell, there are 800 comments right on this article if you want to take their temperature). Regardless of whether this is the coordinated action of some vanguard, or the spontaneous action of a bunch of lone wolves, I think these acts have a value. When the state is forced to answer for its atrocious policies of colonialism and genocide, it immediately begins making hollow gestures towards reconciliation. When the state does this, the only dignified response is to spit right in its eye.
Raising the temperature like this is undoubtedly a dangerous move. Burning a handful of churches and toppling a handful of statues gives the reactionaries an infinitesimal taste of the cultural erasure they've waged on colonized people for centuries. It is just a drop in the ocean, but they react to it with the acuteness of sharks to blood. This in turn undermines the state's false attempts at reconciliation. As the notion of simply paving over unspeakable injustice dwindles, people are forced to choose sides. Particularly, people who play institutional roles in the state, media, and public life.
It makes it very clear where individuals and organizations stand on the issue. People who normally would be able to slip by making vague gestures towards justice are forced to take sides either with the oppressed or the oppressors. Even for BLM, while the riots and arsons may not have abolished or defunded the police, they made it crystal clear where people stand on the issue, down from your shithead neighbors to the highest ranks of the "woke" Liberal elite. Don't underestimate the value of that clarification. It will prove very useful as the movement advances forward.
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Burning a handful of churches and toppling a handful of statues gives the reactionaries an infinitesimal taste of the cultural erasure they've waged on colonized people for centuries.
Reading through these comments actually makes this patently clear. Many people are referring to this as "hate crimes," "pogroms," "(white) genocide," "terrorism," "persecution," "Kristallnacht," "book burning," etc. etc. I don't think even a single person has been killed, but they're prepared to compare this to the Holocaust.
That reminds me how during the BLM protests there was a poll that showed an overwhelming percent of Americans supported the burning of that one Minneapolis police precinct building.
It was after that poll was published that the majority of national coverage of the protests all but vanished.
Over 60% of the country was thinking, "This is a good start."
I know right? These fucking people. It's not like Amerikkka and Klanada waged pogroms for centuries. The real pogrom is the survivors reminding them about it. It would hilarious if these people weren't so terrifying.
All I can really say here is, they've just started finding bodies and there's been tensions already. Either way this isn't even close to the end for sure.
Also the fishery thing ended kinda weird where the tribe bought out the company that was fucking with them.
I'm sure there have to be some copycats by now. There are bound to be more people who are angry about Canada's genocide, but who did not know how to express themselves until they started hearing about churches going up in flame
We welcome additional discussion of church burning over at c/Canada
The first batch of graves being discovered had led to other locations being checked for the same and lo and behold of fucking course there's mass graves under just about all of them. It went on for over a hundred years and spanned the country. There are gonna be sooooo many more and the blowback will most likely increase. Indigenous people all have relatives that went through that system and either dissapeared themselves or knew plenty who did, but I don't think anyone ever saw it in the terms of the sheer numbers these graves are showing. It put it into a perspective. This is the tip of the iceberg so far as far as bodies go and I'm sure churches will follow suite.
I just really like the, seemingly, organized nature of it. They saw the proof of the cries of thousands ( tens of? More?) of native people throughout the years come true and the response wasn't to even talk about it, they just said fuck this and burn these down. It is absolutely beautiful.
Sometimes, justice calls for healing and dialogue. Sometimes, only fire will do.
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At least according to the r/worldnews post about it. OP there hasn't yet linked whatever source they're going off of. I'm looking around for hard numbers but it's evolving so quickly that the articles from June are way outdated and the most recent articles stating how many churches have been involved are right-wing sources that I don't trust.
"When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers," Proverbs 20:15
lol owned
This church is about 15 min away from me. There are probably 20 more within a 30 min drive just like it, none of them are used anymore, just sit there as landmarks to the settlers of different ethnicities who came and took free stolen indigenous land. Just across the river from this church is Stoney Knoll, a landless band that was given a reserve in Treaty 6 that was then stolen and given to settlers. They've been trying to fundraise for $30k in legal fees for almost a decade now and haven't made their goal, while the farmers surrounding them keep making bank with record harvests. The local Facebook page has a post about this fucking church burning and a bunch of people whining about it because they liked to look at it for ten seconds on the way to the bible camp but there wasn't a peep about the 751 graves that were found a week ago, big surprise.
In short: :kkkanada:
Has the Catholic church, either the papacy or the Canadian church, issued any statements on the murdered children? Are they trying to deny or silence the crimes or are they fully accepting their responsibility?
Let me guess: Some handwringing but nothing about reparations or bringing the guilty to justice?
They's doin' to private property what we's did to at least 1300 children. WHAT ABOUT THE PRIVATE PROPERTY WHERE WE KILLED ALL THEM KIDS.
