A network of retired academics and think tanks is chipping away at established truths.
"Residential school denialism, while always present in the community, had emerged from the background and blown up “like a match to tinder,” according to Paul, in the wake of the demonstration. Months later, Paul said, the shift is still noticeable.
“Even now... there’s not a Facebook post that goes out about Indigenous events in Kamloops where there’s not at least one person in a comment section on a shared post saying something about how our experiences as Indigenous people are fabricated,” said Paul.
The Thompson Rivers University event was not an isolated one, nor did it emerge in a vacuum. It was one of a series of events led by Frances Widdowson, a former Mount Royal University professor, on university campuses across Canada.
Widdowson has not been alone in her efforts to generate skepticism about Canada’s residential school history. She is part of a group of roughly two dozen retired academics, lawyers and writers from across the country who collaborate with one another in an email group to construct a more positive version of residential school history.
Collectively, the members of this group are having an outsized impact in sowing doubt about the harms of the residential school system.
They have published over 500 articles about residential schools on various platforms in the last five years and have published three books in the same time span. The books, as well as many of the group’s articles, have been published through the charitable think tanks Frontier Centre for Public Policy and True North Centre for Public Policy.
The two books published by the True North Centre have made bestseller lists in Canada.
In October 2025, two years after it was published, Grave Error: How the Media Misled Us (and the Truth About Residential Schools) was No. 2 on Amazon Canada’s bestseller list for Canadian literature. In December of the same year, the newly published sequel, Dead Wrong: How Canada Got the Residential School Story So Wrong, was No. 1 on that list while Grave Error was No. 2. A couple of months into the new year, those two books held the top two spots of the bestseller list.
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[a link connecting many of these people is they worked at or had family who worked at residential schools.]
The network the email group has formed with each other has been labelled by researchers Tahmineh Farnoud and Justin Harrison as a closed community that cites each other in a loop to suggest legitimacy.
Take, for example, this section of a Frontier Centre article about residential schools by Clifton and fellow group member Hymie Rubenstein:
“As for the genocide accusation, a large and growing body of evidence found here, here, here, and here shows no confirmed evidence of even a single child murdered at any [Indian residential school].”
Each linked site leads to a body of work developed by an email group member, the first by Jacques Rouillard (contributor to Grave Error), the second by an author under the pseudonym KamRes and the last two by someone under another pseudonym, Nina Green.
The arguments of these articles overlook the nuanced definition of the term “genocide,” which does not only include mass killing. While the Truth and Reconciliation Commission concluded the residential school system was part of a policy of cultural genocide, a 2022 House of Commons resolution recognized the residential school system as, simply, genocide."
- Emily Enns, "Who’s Behind the Residential School Denialism Movement?" The Tyee. May 8, 2026.
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the california ideology is an interesting lil essay. it suggests sv culture was the product of hippies and yuppies working together. i clipped some of my favorite parts.
'both visions at the same time-- not criticizing either'
idk about this part but it reminds me of the early days of 'ai' social media hysteria where some people's first response was to find a slur to call robots
whenever those zionist spambots text me i feel like johnny the homicidal maniac when he kidnaps a door to door salesman and forces him to test all the food in his fridge to see if it's gone off/has freezer burn
i overstated young jews' antipathy for israel but i wanted them to fucking know. I WANTED THEM TO FUCKING KNOW HOW MUCH WE HATE THEM. HATE. HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE
Ughhhh part of me wants to keep using ‘goyim’ as a perfectly normal and not-necessarily-derogatory label for gentiles/non-Jews out of contrarian stubbornness but fascists have (no pun intended) poisoned the well so badly!!! I don’t want to sound like I have CONTEMPT for gentiles :( ‘Gentiles’ sounds so simultaneously religious and wincingly sterile. ‘Non-Jews’ is fine right?
Internet is spotty. If I stop talking, the race realist cereal mascot fandom has gotten me. Or else I’ll be reading The California Ideology and getting drunk
Internet is spotty. If I stop talking the race realist cereal mascot fandom has gotten me. Or else I’ll be reading The California Ideology and getting drunk
My internet crapped out for an hour there. Imagine if my last cuntribution to the discourse was a series of joke posts doing race science to cereal mascots
i love that tony hovater has kept his eyebrows like that in spite of them making him look like a dracula. i think it's so unique! and it's a true paean to white european culture-- dracula came from ROMANIA, not KENYA or HONG KONG or MEXICO CITY or BROOKLYN. i'm serious. i think he needs something to make him stand out. as someone who's into psychology and marketing (i say 'into' but i'm even more of a dilettante about it than about fashstudy). or it's like he's doing the woody allen trick of stepping on his glasses before bullies can, or rightoids calling themselves 'chuds,' or that part of 8 mile where eminem wins the battle by saying that YES he's trailer trash, YES he's a poor white guy, NOW WHAT DO YOU HAVE? "I'm a mean caricature of a white person, or maybe a white person who's a vampire. AND WHAT?"
i assume that's why warren balogh doesn't treat whatever skin condition makes him look like he has livor mortis. the magyar warrior concerns himself not with judaic inventions like 'rosacea' (fake, gay). unfortunately, it doesn't make him look whimsical and fresh, as it does with hovater. :( pick a new schtick, warren! learn more hungarian or something!
instead of getting so insecure about it he took every opportunity to say UH IT'S ACTUALLY THE JEWS WHO ARE MENTALLY INSANE, i think rockwell should have leaned into the kookoo bananas allegations post-asylum stay. "i might be CRAZY, but even I can see it's the JEWS behind it ALL." he could have been the original based schizoposter. but instead he looked INCREDIBLY insecure.
Rockwell was usually pretty good at marketing so this was an odd misstep for him. I bet the hospital messed him up.
count chocula is resentful of jewish cereal mascots because everyone always assumes he's jewish (he's an southeastern european brunet with a lumpy nose and dresses like a rich guy), so he goes out of the way to be antisemitic to the jewish cereal mascots (crackle from the rice krispies elf trio and captain crunch, whose family were sephardic and on the wrong side of the civil war)(he was unable to figure out that the trix rabbit is a mischling but when he figured it out he was PISSED). nobody's telling him about his good work friend, tony the tiger, who's black but 'passes' as white. it would break his mind and nobody wants their cereal factory shot up.
i love that tony hovater has kept his eyebrows like that in spite of them making him look like a dracula. i think it's so unique! and it's a true paean to white european culture-- dracula came from ROMANIA, not KENYA or HONG KONG or MEXICO CITY or BROOKLYN. i'm serious. i think he needs something to make him stand out. as someone who's into psychology and marketing (i say 'into' but i'm even more of a dilettante about it than about fashstudy). or it's like he's doing the woody allen trick of stepping on his glasses before bullies can, or rightoids calling themselves 'chuds,' or that part of 8 mile where eminem wins the battle by saying that YES he's trailer trash, YES he's a poor white guy, NOW WHAT DO YOU HAVE? "I'm a mean caricature of a white person, or maybe a white person who's a vampire. AND WHAT?"
i assume that's why warren balogh doesn't treat whatever skin condition makes him look like he has livor mortis. the magyar warrior concerns himself not with judaic inventions like 'rosacea' (fake, gay). unfortunately, it doesn't make him look whimsical and fresh, as it does with hovater. :( pick a new schtick, warren! learn more hungarian or something!
count chocula doing bathory shit to the trix rabbit. babi yar count chocula. someone get david frum in on the ground floor of this nonsexual but racially brave cereal mascot whump fanfiction.
hovater reminds you that prior to pozzing the white cerealsphere by interracial cheerios and mischling rabbits stealing innocent aryan children's cereal, the jews were NO MATCH for his biological ancestor, count chocula.
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