CBC Indigenous: Residential school denialism: what is it and how to recognize it

“I think it’s important to define what residential school denialism is not, which is the denial of the system’s existence or even that the system had some negative effects. We don’t see a lot of that,” said Sean Carleton, who is also an assistant professor of Indigenous studies at the University of Manitoba.

Instead, he said, denialism is “a strategy to twist, downplay, misrepresent, minimize residential school truths in favour of more controversial opinions that the system was well-intentioned.”

He said denialism in all forms — whether talking about climate change or flat Earth conspiracies — is “an attempt to shake public confidence in something that we have consensus about.”

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