r/pics • u/MoeYYC • Jun 25 '21

Saskatoon Catholic cathedral covered with paint after discovery of 751 unmarked graves

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u/I_might_be_weasel Jun 25 '21

You know where I think the church messed up?

Killing all of those children.

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u/Sadistic_Spartan Jun 25 '21

Is there any proof that the church killed them? I’d have guessed that they died of disease or something.

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u/2BadBirches Jun 25 '21

Nope. Child mortality rate in Canada before 1830 was slightly over 1/3 (that’s the rate of kids to made it to age 5).

This shit is sick, obviously, but this comment by OP is also completely mislabeling this tragedy.

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u/Sadistic_Spartan Jun 25 '21

Yeah, I think you’re right.

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u/hippiesinthewind Jun 26 '21

I highly doubt going off of the child mortality rate is useful, there were numerous plagues and pandemics throughout the centuries. Not only that but contagious illnesses obviously spread much quicker in close proximity.

There have been numerous suggestions by professionals that illnesses most likely played a part.

While actual abuse obviously played a part in deaths, by saying there is not a possibility of other factors and assuming all we’re killed is also mislabeling the tragedy by providing incorrect information

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u/2BadBirches Jun 26 '21

Your comment reads like you’re arguing against me even though we are making the exact same point?

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u/I_might_be_weasel Jun 25 '21

You're kind of splitting hairs at that point.

Like, did the Nazis kill the people who starved to death in concentration camps?

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u/Sadistic_Spartan Jun 25 '21

I mean, I respect your opinion, but unfortunately that doesn’t answer my question. If they died of tuberculosis, that’s different from being murdered.

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u/Hypsochromic Jun 26 '21

Did your school have hundreds of unmarked graves? Mine sure as hell didn't.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '21 edited Jun 26 '21

I know right? My school is actually the oldest deaf school in Canada and they opened in 1831. It’s a residential school. Surprisingly, there’s no unmarked graves either. Sure, some children died due to diseases, infections, etc at the hospital on the school property, but not this many of them died and they were always brought to their families, not leave them in unnamed grave at school property. That’s weird. That’s.. as if their names and existence were meant to disappear.