CxD #228 ⚠️What happens when it doesn't matter that the truth doesn't matter⚠️
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Character’s foundations rest on wisdom, which is an organ of vision. And vision helps us navigate reality so that we may less persuaded by that which is false and harmful.
But when that which is false is reported as true, and people who speak up against the distortions get severely punished, we have a lot to think about.
I remember well the upset from last year’s story about mass graves of indigenous school children being discovered in Canada and how utterly horrible learning about it was.
This week, however, I listened to a podcast that claims that those mass graves and claims of genocide weren’t true, and that the consequences of the falsehoods are dire and still affecting the very communities—and nation!—the stories were hoping to “help.” Worse, from my point of view, is that the journalist who covered the falsehoods is now a pariah in his own country.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/07/world/canada/mass-graves-residential-schools.html
But according to veteran journalist Terry Glavin, the shocking story about a mass graves wasn’t true.
And saying that—reporting that—came at a very high cost.
Terry Glavin has been a reporter for over 20 years. In that time, he’s had a particular focus on persecuted minorities. Both in faraway places like China, Afghanistan, Russia and Iraq, but also in his own backyard, where he has reported extensively on the First Nations of Canada and the abuses they have suffered at the hands of the state. So how is it that someone who has spent his career giving voice to the most vulnerable, found himself accused of genocide denial?
This podcast episode is one of the most important ones I’ve listened to, and the views and concerns closely mirror my own, for whatever little that’s worth. Please put listening to this at the very top of your priority list should living in a way that accords with truth as far as we can know it be of any concern to you.
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“Character is above all the ability to disregard insults or abandonment by one’s own people. One must be willing to lose everything. There is no such thing as half a risk.”
~Charles de Gaulle
3. To what extent is this a parody?
And, then, there is this:
https://www.canadaland.com/terry-glavin-residential-school-graves/