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Guilt over Aboriginals can lead to teaching children untruths

Guilt over Aboriginals can lead to teaching children untruths

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Jan 22, 2023
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I promise that you will be well rewarded with terrific writing, outstanding argumentation, and verifiably true evidence by reading the essay below from Peter Shawn Taylor, a highly prolific editorial writer and currently C2C Journal’s Senior Features Editor.

Taylor has written for numerous and diverse publications including Maclean’s, National Post, Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, Canadian Business, Saturday Night, Reader’s Digest, National Review, Waterloo Region Record, Alberta Report and Walrus.

This piece was written for the National Post where it is available only to paid subscribers. It is re-posted here with Peter’s permission which is why it is available only to my paid subscribers.

It touches on and complements many of the issues discussed in the following piece, also available only to paid subscribers.

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The question Taylor asks below is what do Australia and Canada have in common. His answer is lots:

Both are modern multicultural societies borne of British roots. Both are heavily reliant on resources and trade. Both have a passion for globally obscure professional sports. Both are largely empty in the middle. It’s a long list.

Here’s another: both display the same worrisome tendency to misrepresent past wrongs done to Indigenous people in order to exaggerate present-day feelings of guilt and shame. In this case, however, Australia has a significant head start on its northern cousin.

Describing this “head start” and its implications for unearned indigenous grievances in Canada form the bulk of this brilliant opinion piece.

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