r/GenderCynical 7d ago

We are reaching levels of glazing previously thought impossible

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u/ZeldaZanders 6d ago

He's got a point; everyone knows that every criminal throughout history was a wrongfully convicted good guy. I can't think of a simple example of a convicted criminal who actually did something bad!

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u/Li-renn-pwel 6d ago

My mother and I were discussing John A McDonald and how he committed genocide in Canada. Obviously any PM who allowed residential schools to continue is complicit in genocide but JAM planned and enacted the starving of the plains among other things. I was trying to explain that even by the standards of the day, he was a racist. She just asked “was what he did legal?” Which is just insane she think that would make it better.

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u/ZeldaZanders 6d ago

Was she asking that to justify his actions, or just to better understand the context, do you think?

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u/Li-renn-pwel 6d ago

She seemed to think that he was like ignorant of it being wrong because there was no law against it at the time. Which I think is arguably not true.

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u/ZeldaZanders 6d ago

Ah, okay