Horrifying. I'm not Canadian, but as a white European and a Christian, I'm part of two groups that are behind this and much else in other countries.
Yeah, it is willful ignorance. Filtering out, skimming over, choosing not to watch things that are "boring" or "Yet another thing about how guilty we should all be"... Using every possible conscious or subconscious strategy to stay ignorant until the truth is thrust right into their faces.
(Not sure about higher death rate than Auschwitz or the Black Death? But it does not need to be to be utterly monstrous and evil, and unquestionably Genocide, morally and legally.)
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Date: 2015-06-02 11:26 pm (UTC)Yeah, it is willful ignorance. Filtering out, skimming over, choosing not to watch things that are "boring" or "Yet another thing about how guilty we should all be"... Using every possible conscious or subconscious strategy to stay ignorant until the truth is thrust right into their faces.
(Not sure about higher death rate than Auschwitz or the Black Death? But it does not need to be to be utterly monstrous and evil, and unquestionably Genocide, morally and legally.)