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Lauren Southern presents evidence the residential school mass grave claims are bullshit. (youtu.be)
posted 4 years ago by AbleistSL 4 years ago by AbleistSL +42 / -0
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– Benevolentdictator 9 points 4 years ago +9 / -0

Interesting documentary, but pretty light on actual facts or firsthand interviews.

The only new information I learned over the 30 minutes was that the claim of grave markers in Saskatchewan being removed by a rogue Catholic priest is actually just hearsay from the First Nation itself, and there is no confirmation from the local diocese or any records or evidence to support the claim.

The rest of the information this documentary uses to question and refute the sketchy Kamloops and Cranbrook, BC claims has been publicly available for months.

You would think the two creators could have at least interviewed someone on camera with expertise on ground-penetrating radar to explain the limitations of the science rather than reading scientific papers aloud themselves.

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– AbleistSL [S] 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

That's what happens when potential interviewees are being dishonest corrupt assholes who would rather dodge the interview entirely than make themselves look corrupt on camera.

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– Benevolentdictator 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

The parts about being stonewalled by the Kamloops chief were interesting, especially the physical fence erected around the band office and the band using bullshit COVID and sovereign land narratives to completely insulate themselves from all scrutiny.

But the piece still lacked any substance even though I agree with its skepticism. They didn't mention trying to interview anyone from the Cranbrook or Saskatchewan bands also featured. They didn't seem to interview anyone in person at all. They didn't speak to any First Nations people on record, even if not directly related. They didn't get any experts on Ground Penetrating Radar on record. They didn't interview any historians, local or academic to provide evidence or context.

99% of this documentary was editorial outside of the statement from the Saskatchewan Diocese deacon.

They also spent a lot of time differentiating between "mass graves" and "unmarked graves", which they are ultimately right about sensationalism and dishonesty in journalism. But ultimately, the distinction to most normies doesn't matter because hundreds of individual unmarked graves still doesn't change the narrative that about "genocide" on the part of the federal government and Catholics Church to them.

I think the documentary raises some uncomfortable and important questions about the whole affair that no one else wants to touch. I just don't think the two actually made a strong enough case with their piece to label the whole thing as a "hoax" at this point (though I think it ultimately will be revealed to be).

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– BYEBYE 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

Well if you watched the video you would see no one from kamloops would talk to them. Are the research papers not enough evidence? I always read these articles about mass graves online but not a single one showed the mass graves. These bodies were never dug up, how do they even know they're children?

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– Benevolentdictator 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

You can more-or-less find a research paper abstract that says anything.

It just seems bush league that their refutation of Ground Penetrating Radar was them reading some lines off of a computer screen.

I can see why it might be a hard political climate to find a Canadian GPR expert to go on record, but surely they could have interviewed an impartial expert from abroad to explain how the technique works and its limitations?

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– ApexVeritas 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

Why support Lauren Southern? I thought she showed her colors pretty clearly when she betrayed people on the right and disappeared. When she popped back up a year ago it seemed pretty obvious it was only because she wanted Youtube money again.

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– bamboozler1 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

Yeah, I'm inclined to agree.

Hot, odd, but not necessarily a good person, let's just say that much...

I don't think anything she does is particularly "legit", after all we've seen so far.

She lives in Aus, now, too, right? Where the hell is her condemnation of what's going on here? She hasn't said shit. interest overrides stated principles, when it comes down to "protecting yourself", I guess...

Sadly.

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– ApexVeritas 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

I was fully onboard with her and followed her Youtube channel closely, especially up to her documentaries highlighting the boer genocide in South Africa. However, her drop out of social media and the circumstances involving it was shady, and her entrance back in shows her true motivations quite clearly. Such a person is dangerous to praise or follow.

If people want to highlight topics she discusses, it would be better to find someone else, someone genuine, talking about it rather than give her attention.

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– Benevolentdictator 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

How did she betray people on the right?

I remember she abruptly "retired" from journalism awhile back, went back to school?, moved to Australia and got married?, had a baby? (or maybe I'm confusing her with Lindsay Shepherd).

I do remember at some point she made comments walking back and regretting her time as a shock journalist.

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– bamboozler1 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

Yeah, she did all that. That's her. But overall I would very much agree with Apex here.

Girl's a grifter, through and through, and I'm firmly unconvinced she actually believes ANY of what she previously espoused/pretended to...

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– bamboozler1 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

I mean, dude, if you look at Lauren's comments regarding BLM in 2017 vs Lauren last year and now, it's like an entirely different person.

It's very rare for people to do that sort of political 180, naturally. As someone who seemingly has done that, but in the exact opposite direction, I... Just don't believe her. I don't believe someone that "hyped" in the media, and with that sort of following, could possibly, possibly genuinely swap their views, like she claims to have done.

It doesn't just "smell" fishy, dude, it reeks, and so many people she used to get ahead (men, admittedly) have come out and denounced her... I'm sorry, but I just don't buy it as anything other than a remarkably clever "act".

Either way, though, she's a has-been. The world moved on. She has no real reason to be famous, anymore.

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– ApexVeritas 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

I tried to search for it, but I can't find any info on it now. Sorry dude, maybe someone else with more of the details can chime in.

Anyway, she began betraying a lot of her friends and supporters around the time she started making the Borderless documentary. I don't remember the exact details, so I apologize, I just remember there being a lot of fallout from it. She also pushed a pretty middle of the road message in that documentary, which is wild considering the apparent facade she put up over the previous years being adamantly against globalism and everything it's pushing. After the fallout from Borderless, she completely dropped out of politics and social media, and then a year ago she puts out a milquetoast video about the insanity of the world but appearing a lot more centrist, and it was obvious she needed the money again.

I would be vary wary of supporting her. She sways with the direction of money.

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– Benevolentdictator 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

Thanks for the reply.

I've noticed that her podcast appeared a few times recently in my YT recommendations (probably because I love watching Gavin McInnes clips) and from the little I can remember, she seems to be presenting as somewhat based again.

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– ThomasLincoln 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

I thought Southern wasn't her real name and shes actually a jew.

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