The Kamloops hoax exposed the media’s favorite historical lie
The leftist media got caught in yet another lie. This one belonging to the Kamloops Hoax. If you don’t remember it, I’ll refresh your memory.
Tom Woods flagged something this week that deserves more attention than it will get from the regime-friendly press.
Five years ago, Canadians were told that the remains of 215 native children had been found at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
That was the story, and the emotional bomb dropped across Canada and the rest of the West. The leftist media ran with it, politicians performed their usual ritual of national self-loathing, churches became targets for arson, and anyone who asked basic questions got shoved into the “denier” box.
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Then came the quiet walk-back and the newly-christened Kamloops Hoax
The Globe and Mail, one of Canada’s institutional media darlings, finally admitted what should have been obvious from day one: The claim required proof, and the leftist media didn’t demand any. The original reports treated ground-penetrating radar anomalies as confirmed human remains. That’s narrative-laundering disguised as journalism when a certain side of the equation wants to pad its hate-driven worldview disguised as moralistic virtue.
Ground-penetrating radar doesn’t identify children or bodies. It detects disturbances underground. Maybe those disturbances are graves. Or maybe they aren’t. That’s why serious people who don’t suffer from leftist-infused brain damage investigate before they declare something true.
But the media didn’t want serious investigation. It wanted a morality play, and it got one.
The story fit the preferred narrative you “learned” in prison camps masquerading as public schools too perfectly: peaceful Indian children, cruel white Christian oppressors, guilty Western civilization, and a predominantly-white public that needed another forced lesson in shame. Once that narrative hit the bloodstream, facts became optional. The only thing that mattered was whether the story served the approved moral framework.
That framework goes something like this: American Indians were peaceful and good. White Christian Europeans were bad and oppressive. Therefore, any claim that reinforces this fib deserves instant belief, while any question that complicates it deserves suspicion.
Leftists institutions don’t care about objective history
That’s propaganda wearing a feathered headdress and a clerical collar. None of this means every criticism of residential schools is false. Residential schools were real. Abuse and forced assimilation happened. Children were taken from their families. Churches and governments both played roles in a system that no free society should defend.
But acknowledging real abuses doesn’t require believing every unverified claim that activists, politicians, or journalists shove in front of the public.
A serious society can say residential schools were wrong without pretending radar shadows are dead children. It can acknowledge native suffering without turning every tribe into innocent saints — because they weren’t. It can criticize forced Christianization without pretending Christianity alone invented conquest, violence, captivity, or cruelty. Especially early Christianity, which was pretty fucking oppressed.
But the activist class hates that kind of balance because balance ruins the racket.
The truth is that Indians were human beings. That sounds obvious, but apparently it needs said because modern activists want symbols and mascots for grievance politics as opposed to humans.
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The truth about Indian tribes all over North America
Native tribes weren’t one peaceful collective sitting around waiting for Europeans to ruin everything. They were hundreds of distinct peoples with their own cultures, religions, alliances, rivalries, trade networks, wars, and political interests.
Some were more peaceful, others were more warlike, a few were victims in one conflict and aggressors in another. Some took captives, practiced slavery, tortured enemies, built powerful confederacies and empires, and made strategic alliances with Europeans because it served their interests against rival tribes.
That doesn’t make them uniquely evil. They’re just as nuanced as every race that’s ever walked the Earth.
The Iroquois didn’t need Europeans to understand war. The Comanche didn’t become a regional power by passing out pamphlets about coexistence. Hell, those people were brutal. The Aztecs, farther south, built an empire soaked in conquest and sacrifice long before Europeans arrived. Even among North American tribes, warfare, raiding, captivity, revenge, and territorial conflict existed before white settlers crossed the ocean.
None of it justifies European abuses
It doesn’t justify broken treaties, forced removal, state-backed land grabs, or the federal government treating Indians like wards instead of free human beings with property rights and self-determination.
But it destroys the kindergarten version of history pushed by dumbass activists who need every story to fit their oppressor-oppressed spreadsheet. The media’s Kamloops failure shows how dangerous that spreadsheet can get.
Once the story became “Christian Canada murdered Indian children and buried them in secret,” the public was primed for rage. Churches were burned and vandalized. Statues came down. Politicians knelt before the narrative. The institutional press pretended skepticism was cruelty, and the mob got its target.
Then, years later, we’re supposed to accept a soft admission that maybe the evidence was never there. How convenient. It’s like those assclown public health officials who asked for forgiveness following the COVID fiasco.
The accusation gets the front page, but the institutional fog buried the correction. Activists kept their moral status, politicians still get their “force for good” speeches, journalists won’t stop pretending they “defend the truth,” and the people who asked the right questions from the beginning still get gaslit as “dangerous.”
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How the grievance machine works
Give it a dead child, and it’ll build a cathedral of outrage before anyone checks whether the grave exists. If it gets racial disparity, it screams discrimination before asking about inputs. And a historical conflict? That lets it sort everyone into a saint and villain before studying what actually happened. The machine needs simplicity because complexity is its enemy.
Complexity would force activists to admit native societies weren’t morally pure. It’d force hate-driven Christian-bashing secularists to admit that many brutalities blamed on religion were actually functions of state power, empire, conquest, and centralized authority. Especially when you hit ’em with Christianity’s origins.
As for journalists? They’d need to admit that “believe the victim group” isn’t an evidentiary standard. And politicians couldn’t treat inherited guilt as a substitute for policy.
Worst of all, complexity would force the public to think, and the grievance industry can’t survive a thinking public. A thinking public would ask better questions, and catch the grievance industrial-complex in its lies red-handed.
What exactly did the radar find? Were remains actually recovered? Were forensic tests conducted? Who verified the claim? What did the original records show? How many children died at the school? From what causes? Where were they buried? Who had custody of the evidence? Why did journalists state as fact what had not been proven?
Those are adult questions, and the woke media avoided them because adult questions threatened a childish narrative.
The Kamloops story matters far beyond Canada
It shows what happens when the Left weaponizes historical guilt, journalism turns into activism, and when a society decides that some claims deserve belief because they’re politically useful.
And it shows why the “peaceful natives vs. evil white Christians” framing needs to die. History ain’t that clean. No civilization is that innocent, no group owns virtue or monopolizes evil. Human beings have always been capable of family, faith, courage, trade, art, violence, conquest, cruelty, and betrayal.
That includes Europeans, Christians, Indians, and essentially any group claims to be human.
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It all draws back to our enemy, the State
The State, as usual, made everything worse. It turned cultural conflict into policy, schooling into coercion, religion into a tool of assimilation, and land disputes into bureaucratic conquest. And now, generations later, the media and activist class use the State’s wreckage to feed another form of control.
They want permanent indictment. And if they tell you otherwise, they’re lying. Because that’s what the leftist media’s good at: they lie a lot.
They want Western civilization to die, Christianity treated as uniquely oppressive while every other culture’s brutality gets buried under romantic fog, and native history flattened into victimhood because victimhood gives activists power.
Hold Globe and Mail, and other media institutions spreading fibs accountable
Truth matters more than narrative or political usefulness. And no serious society should let journalists, activists, or politicians turn unproven claims into national mythology.
The Globe and Mail helped spread a story that fed hatred, vandalism, arson, and historical poison. Then it waited years to admit the obvious. The Globe and Mail deserves to fold because of its actions, because what else is the company hiding and what other narratives are they twisting?
So the next time the media or the TV tells us to believe first and ask questions later, remember Kamloops. Because once a society lets activists turn suspicion into certainty, it stops doing history, and starts performing ritual sacrifice.
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