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Another long-winded diatribe full of opinion.

Same thing according to your own ridiculous narrative your country was founded on conquering, murdering, rounding up and putting the indigenous people into concentration camps which I might add continues to this day.

What a shame you can't apply the same opinion to your own situation which of course makes you an utter hypocrite.

The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls concluded in its 2019 final report that the Canadian state has perpetrated genocide against Indigenous peoples. This genocide is the underlying cause of the contemporary murders and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls.

This conclusion was “inescapable” for the commissioners and for thousands of Indigenous people across the country. But as the lead author of the inquiry’s legal analysis of genocide, I know personally how denial and disbelief dominated the reactions of the mainstream media in Canada and of many non-Indigenous people in Canada that amounted to: “A genocide in Canada? Surely not!”

Then came the stunning news — the remains of 215 children found on the grounds of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C. It seems like the type of mass graves commonly found at sites where genocide took place.

Canadians are beginning to be able to contemplate what for many Indigenous people is a given: Canada committed genocide. But, as academic Joanna R. Quinn said in a recent article for The Conversation: “The residential school system was also one among many systems of violences and harms. Residential schools represent the tip of the iceberg.”

It’s now especially important to recall some of the legal underpinnings of the use of the term genocide in the Canadian context. Many myths and misunderstandings dominate the public discourse, hindering informed discussion on this subject that is so important to the future of our nations.

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^^ "A straw man fallacy...

...is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction. One who engages in this fallacy is said to be 'attacking a straw man'. " ~ Wikipedia

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To echo my point in this subthread, if you keep using fallacies (etc.) to 'support' Israel, you aren't actually supporting Israel. ('With friends like you, who needs enemies?')

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^^ stupid post which is spawned by the guy who has no real argument.

Dismissed for extreme stupidity.

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Another delusional post from a guy that probably doesn't even wear boots.

Go back to sucking your thumb and dreaming of being someone that actually has a clue about anything.

Anarchist code word for clueless and Strange is another word for Queer.

Queer is your constant reference to my ass and your virtual boot.

This appears to be an ongoing fantasy queer bedfellow.

I suspect you have rainbows shooting out of your ass so leave me out of your depraved fantasies.

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I've deleted two or three of my comments that I allowed to go beyond my specific points above. Let them serve with, and as exemplified by, your typical trollish garbage, as placeholders for what to avoid.

'Fool me once, shame on me.'

I'm a willing fool for some things, but not if it subverts what I wrote above.

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Almost an admission of wrongdoing good for you.

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I am fine with them but prefer to stick with and honour my main points above, which of course I linked to as well.

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Oh of course you linked to them because...no one here can go a day without your pithy and wrong opinions.

My God your ego is even bigger than Phils.

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Happy trolling, Ben. I will resist my weakness for feeding it. 'u'

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The truth is NOT trolling.

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