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[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The Nazi's got the term, and concept, 'final solution' from a Canadian:

"It is readily acknowledged that Indian children lose their natural resistance to illness by habitating so closely in these schools, and that they die at a much higher rate than in their villages. But this alone does not justify a change in the policy of this Department, which is being geared towards the final solution of our Indian Problem."

"…the system was open to criticism. Insufficient care was exercised in the admission of children to the schools. The well-known predisposition of Indians to tuberculosis resulted in a very large percentage of deaths among the pupils. They were housed in buildings not carefully designed for school purposes, and these buildings became infected and dangerous to the inmates. It is quite within the mark to say that fifty per cent of the children who passed through these schools did not live to benefit from the education which they had received therein."

(This is why there was a fair bit of anger in Canada when Civ 6 added Wilfred Laurier as Canada's leader.

EDIT: I transposed Laurier and MacDonald here, as someone pointed out. The above quotes are from Duncan Campbell Scott, as Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs under MacDonald. Laurier was a key architect of the Residential School system. TLDR; MacDonald started the genocide, Laurier built upon it.)

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

The Nazis were inspired by New World colonialist, racists policies. Even Hitler admit he was inspired by the eugenics movement from the US.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not disputing any of your points, but Civ 6 has Wilfred Laurier as Canada’s leader

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Thank you for pointing that out, I switched Laurier and MacDonald after quoting MacDonald's Deputy. Cheers!