BREAKING: Rodney Clifton under fire
Rodney Clifton under fire
Truth North Wire’s Cosmin Dzsurdzsa has just noted that Spotify has censored a True North residential school interview as “dangerous content.”
Spotify removed an episode of True North’s The Faulkner Show that featured an interview with former residential school worker Rodney Clifton, professor emeritus at the University of Manitoba and an editor and senior fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, claiming it promoted dangerous content.
The streaming giant cited alleged concerns over “dangerous content” for the takedown, igniting more controversy over censorship and free speech.
In an official statement, Spotify explained:
“Upon review, we have removed the following content for violating Spotify’s Platform Rules for Dangerous Content.”
Specific details about what constituted “dangerous” were not revealed.
The episode in question [see below] involved an interview with Clifton, who argued that far-left activists have distorted historical narratives surrounding residential schools.
Clifton shared his experience working in the residential school system, stating:
“There were good and bad things that happened in residential schools, and the good has been outshouted by the claims of bad and people who are getting money for saying bad things.”
Clifton further expressed doubt over the widely circulated claims of mass graves at former residential schools.
“I don’t think there’s any children that have been murdered and buried in schoolyards,” said Clifton.
Despite the fuss over Clifton’s comments, significant ongoing debate remains about the mass grave claims. The Kamloops Indian Band, which reported the original alleged discovery of the “remains” of indigenous children in unmarked graves on May 27, 2021, has now revised its statements, referring only to discovering “anomalies” — soil disturbances of unknown origin — instead of confirmed graves.
Still, some government officials and indigenous leaders have called for the outlawing of claims contrary to the official narrative as “residential school denialism.”
One of their prime targets is Rodney Clifton, co-editor of From Truth Comes Reconciliation, a groundbreaking and well-received 2021 collection of contrarian articles about Canada’s Indian Residential Schools.