Overlooking the Facts in Favour of Empty Virtue Signalling Does a Disservice to Everyone, Including the Victims
Barbara Kay is a distinguished columnist and book author who regularly writes articles for the National Post and the Epoch Times. Her latest book co-authored with Linda Blade is “Unsporting: How Trans Activism and Science Denial are Destroying Sport” published by Rebel News Network Ltd., May 2021.
The following piece published by a leading international news site deals with the not unrelated issue of the war between factual truths and invented myths surrounding contemporary indigenous issues, the best known one being the fake story about 215 indigenous children buried in the dead of night next to their Kamloops Indian Residential School . According to Kay:
The putative children’s graves that remain mysteriously unexcavated are central to a major plank in the residential-school narrative, whose frequent departures from facts and linguistic precision rarely elicit challenge from politicians or mainstream media. Only a handful of resolutely objective researchers—notwithstanding their genuine, sincerely expressed sympathy for the real and pervasive problems plaguing a significant swathe of Canada’s indigenous population—privilege evidence-based scholarship over rumours, oral history, and emotion-based “knowing.” As punishment for their academic integrity, they are routinely excoriated for their “denialism,” including by Marc Miller, minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, on Twitter.
Combining scientific evidence, impeccable logic, and elegant prose, Kay carefully exposes the empty virtue signaling, phony grievances, and greedy exploitation of their own downtrodden aboriginals by indigenous leaders, activists, and their non-indigenous enablers in an exposé that should be required reading for all Canadians.
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