The Transference of Blame

Leftism’s distorted truth of Canada’s “Dark Chapter”

Highly fictionalized ahistorical agit-prop painting by Canadian indigenous artist Kent Monkman

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By

James Pew

Seeking the truth of Canada’s “dark chapter” is likely the best way to deliberately exclude oneself from polite society. And to get called things like residential school denialist among other pejoratives. So be it! In my view, the modern polite society of Canada has twisted itself into an immoral wreck acting out a grotesque social justice charade. Even though it manages somewhat of a neat looking outer appearance, and consistently promotes all the politically correct dogmas, upon closer inspection it reveals a pattern of acceptance and advocacy of the most radical, false, dangerous, awful, and evil ideas quite possibly ever conceived. All of these ideas, as manifest in the modern post-truth paradigm, have taken shape within the general ideological framework of leftism.

Affirming a confused child’s misguided suspicions of being born in the wrong body, then setting them on a medical pathway to irreversible harm, is about as evil as it gets. Pretending the odd pattern of gender incongruence among youth, which in recent years has spiked by orders of magnitude consistent with a social contagion, is nothing more than the liberation of queer perspectives and alternative lifeways, is a deplorable stance to take. Further, I strain to find anything but iniquity in forcing female humans to share their private spaces, either prisons, sports leagues or public change rooms, with fetishistic men masquerading as women. Or, teaching Canadian children false and cherry-picked history of the purported wickedness of white settlers, who are relentlessly tarred as genocidaires. A crime against humanity which leftists claim was committed through colonial instruments like Indian Residential Schools, supposedly designed to “kill the Indian” in indigenous children.

All of this junk science and ahistoricism stems from the animating philosophies of leftism. In my view it is correct to call it “woke.” However, “leftism” includes and attributes the true source of modern race/sex/gender obsession encompassing the full thrust of radical leftwing ideology spanning back to the cold war era when Communist agitators first began to divide and derail the Western liberal apparatus by fomenting discontent among American community activists. They accomplished this, among other ways, by promoting anti-Westernism and such depressing Marxist notions as “false consciousness.” Essentially, the left came to “understand” that things in the West only appeared good and prosperous because falsely embedded mass consciousness had led the public to believe so. No, in fact, the radical left claimed, you are not happy with your simple family life and religious community, you are a slave to corporate oligarchs, and the media and big companies have brainwashed you into buying into their version of hyper-consumerism. You are oppressed, they explained, by everything that surrounds you, everything that society produces and offers. This dispiriting social analysis expanded into race and sex based identity politics in the 1960s and 1970s, and has since entrenched throughout Western institutions.

But leftist ideas are so dumb and so awful only those who consider themselves the smartest and most moral believe them. In fact, these luxury beliefs are the very thing elite leftists use to distinguish themselves from the unwashed working class masses they loathe. But after closer examination, the social justice left who claim to be liberators of society’s oppressed, turn out to be an ugly, violent and degenerate mob of intolerant totalitarians.

At the core of the radical left’s subversive operations is the weaving of narratives. In the case of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation narrative, the history of Indian Residential Schools has become something beyond the pale of polite discussion. Canadians have one choice: believe every word uttered by indigenous people about their “dark chapter,” no matter how unbelievable. And doubly believe indigenous “survivors” of Indian Residential Schools.

There is no departing from this if one intends on holding space in polite society. So the true choice of the matter is really a hidden choice: go along with the totalitarian left by supporting 100% of their unsubstantiated and highly implausible narrative claims, or lose ones standing among the Laurentian elites and the gate-keepers of Canada’s illiberal cultural aristocracy. For this writer, the whole dilemma presented no question at all. An enormous “Fuck it” went with the very first piece I published years ago on the unmarked graves at Indian Residential School scandal. And I haven’t had a moment's regret since. Still not sorry.

I will continue researching and writing on the topic. There is so much to learn about the history of indigenous-non-indigenous relations and the development of early Canada. I will do my best to remain objective even though for some time now my suspicions and judgement have led me to believe (at least until new evidence leads me to believe otherwise) that what is called the “dark chapter” – Canada’s Indian Residential School period – was actually something very different than what Canadians have been led to believe. The dark chapter is a leftist narrative that is designed to orchestrate leftist gains. The Truth and Reconciliation process is tied up inextricably in the dark chapter narrative. However, both the money generated and the political power acquired through the manipulative deployment of this narrative is not something that is discussed. Why is that? Because if you discuss it, if you investigate and question it, you get kicked out of polite society.

But like I said, Fuck It! Allow me to share my suspicion, or maybe even theory, on what Canada’s dark chapter really was. In my view, Canada’s indigenous absolutely were victims. However, they were not victims of the genocidal machinations of European settlers. They were victims of a tragic set of unfortunate circumstances. To list a few of the major ones: 1) European diseases for which the indigenous had no natural immunity. 2) The introduction of alcohol into primitive indigenous communities who had no knowledge or past exposure to the social harms it brings. 3) The massive decrease of traditional food supplies like the Buffalo 4) The enormous gap in cultural development between the indigenous and the settlers which created a survival imperative that meant indigenous people had to make a massive leap in cultural development unprecedented in the history of all humanity. This is so much more than just a tall order. Asking people to make this broad of a cultural jump within a single generation was an absurdly difficult request. It was a nearly impossible feat to accomplish. That many indigenous people, already hurt by strange diseases, alcohol abuse, and lack of nutritious food, were unable to meet this demand is not a surprise. However, it does present a plausible rationale, a counter-narrative to the dark chapter trope, for the suffering endured by indigenous people throughout Canada’s early development, and extending through the residential school period.

In 1995, Robert Carney, Indian Residential School historian, and father to the unelected imposter prime minister Mark Carney, published a paper, Aboriginal Residential Schools Before Confederation, that began with the following quote from Marie de l’Incarnation, superior of the first group of Ursuline sisters to come to New France, shortly before reaching Quebec in 1639):

“We met many savages when we went ashore, and this was a great joy to us. These poor people had never seen anyone dressed up as we were, so that they were filled with wonder, and when they were told that we had left our country, our relatives, and all comforts out of love for them, they were utterly amazed. And they were even more amazed when told that we had come to teach their children.”

Much later, Indigenous chiefs would insist that the white man’s education for indigenous children be negotiated as treaty requirements. The Indian day schools, industrial schools, and residential schools were not only acts of kindness with their impetus in the settlers desire to educate/assimilate indigenous people into modern lifeways, but came to be an integral component of Canada’s wardenship of the indigenous, demanded by indigenous leaders.

What I believe occurred in modern times is the concoction of a narrative that is little more than the transference of blame from circumstances to settlers. It was not the intent of our ancestors who built the nation to harm the indigenous. The historical record may include some harms, but it does not reveal a systemic pattern of deliberate evil. Assimilation was agreed by everyone at the time to be an indigenous person's best shot at survival. Today, there are many, like me, who think assimilation is an indigenous person's best shot at health and prosperity. However, the left has thoroughly conflated assimilation with cultural genocide, and then just plain old genocide. They repeated themselves so damn much that when NDP MP Leah Gazan brought her infamous genocide motion before the House of Commons in the late hour of question period one insipid Ottawa afternoon, our sleepy members of Parliament unquestionably and unanimously voted in favour within minutes of its debut.

So what does one really lose when speaking with facts and sound logic on these topics? All of the wieners and weaklings hangout in polite society, one can remove oneself from their abominable clique simply by discussing truthfully Indian Residential Schools, Colonialism, and Anglo Canadian history (the history of Canada’s true ethnic archetype), and other such taboo subjects. By utilizing an objective approach and prioritizing fact-finding/material evidence, one easily cancels oneself from access to the snobbish idiots of the polite class. It is that simple.

In my view, one is better off ostracized, but with a clear conscience. Truth is the only thing that can set us free and adequately release us from the ostentation and pettiness, the ignorance and the immorality, the celebrity worship, the Godlessness, the smugness, the utter lack of principles, and the rest of the putrid mess of it. You don’t need leftism, the dominant ideology of polite society, you need family and friends mostly, but also, if only slightly less essentially, liberty, and truth, and adherence to principle – Western liberal principles, that is.

End of rant. There’ll be more soon.

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Thanks for reading. For more from this author, read Carney is not the guy. AND, don’t miss James’ commentary on The Subversion of B.C. Law

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