All posts tagged genocide

Institutional or structural racism, defined as the social, economic, educational, and political forces or policies that operate to foster discriminatory outcomes or give preferences to members of one group over others, derives its genesis from the origins of race as a concept. Race as a biological fact has been invalidated by biologists and geneticists, but…

 Trigger warning: Thousands of girls and boys were raped and tortured, and many were murdered, in Canada’s aboriginal boarding schools.  In Canada, up until 1985, Christian churches ran around 100 boarding schools for aboriginal children.  Between 100,000 and 200,000 children were forced to attend these boarding schools.  Reportedly, around 50,000 aboriginal children died in these…