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Residential school deniers tried to dig up suspected unmarked grave sites at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, not believing a May 2021 announcement from the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc that as many as 215 Indigenous children had been buried there, according to a new report.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/denialists-tried-to-access-unmarked-gravesite-tkemlups-report-1.6879980

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This will continue to be a major problem as long as we're stuck with the word "suspected." According to this, the reason we continue to say "suspected" is because ground penetrating radar cannot be used to unambiguously confirm a burial site. So far, that requires someone to actually dig. Has there been enough digging to verify that the combination of oral history and technology is enough to go on?

Even for those of us who acknowledge the reality of the various horrors, including this one, we have to eventually stop using the word "suspected" with respect to this particular issue. There is a difference between certainty and proof and we must bridge that gap.

[–] socialjusticewizard 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're right about using "suspected" too often, but this type of denialism isn't caused by that. Strengthened perhaps, but these types would always find excuses to deny

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Yes, there will always be extremist denialists, but there will also always be those swayed by actual physical evidence. I think the latter is where our focus should be.