Her documentary last year on Canada’s residential school hoax was really early on calling out the BS, but had zero substance.
It essentially consisted of her getting stonewalled by the Kamloops band office by telephone, showing how the band office was fenced off " COVID", flying a drone over the archeology site showing no excavation work done yet and then getting someone from a Diocese from another residential school claim in Saskatchewan to give her a soundbyte that the claim that an evil priest in the 70s had bulldozed over all the headstones wasn't substantiated in the church records.
I don't know that you can blame her for having no substance. The argument that mass graves existed also had literally no substance, and the woman who produced the hypothesis also said that she had no substance.
How do you make a documentary out of a Nothing-Burger from both sides, while one side has committed to a Red Terror that burned 64 churches with support from the government and Civil Liberties organizations?
Southern had the correct narrative and was much earlier than everyone else in calling out the hoax.
Her actual documentary though was padded out with fluff of her getting stonewalled by uncooperative sources rather than much evidence to refute the actual claim of "mass graves".
Really, the only evidence she really presented was an interview with a professor talking about the vagaries of Ground Penetrating Radar, but not specifically about the Kamloops data.
There was another article about a month ago written by ?some American rando? that documented via aerial photography how many times the area of concern has already been excavated serially in Kamloops over the last 50 years (something like 25% of the orchard), including archeological digs from Simon Fraser University, that found absolutely nothing.
Her actual documentary though was padded out with fluff of her getting stonewalled by uncooperative sources rather than much evidence to refute the actual claim of "mass graves".
"Prove there's no teapot orbiting the sun."
Such a basic fallacy. C'mon, we're better than this. It's up to the person making the positive claim to provide evidence, not the person skeptical of the claim.
Just because she settled on a narrative that fits our politics and ultimately ended up being true doesn't change the fact that it was a shitty documentary.
She could have saved everyone a half an hour of their lives by boiling down the actual evidence she had to a single paragraph.
The Kamloops band repeatedly wouldn't return my calls and are hiding behind a COVID fence. No exhumation or excavation of the site has yet begun. An expert on Ground Penetrating Radar says its unreliable and doesn't show what you think it shows. A spokesperson from the Diocese in Saskatchewan admits on record that they have no records of a priest existing and going rogue decades ago going on a rampage bulldozing over Indian headstones at another "mass graves" site Trudeau visited and politicized.
Her documentary last year on Canada’s residential school hoax was really early on calling out the BS, but had zero substance.
It essentially consisted of her getting stonewalled by the Kamloops band office by telephone, showing how the band office was fenced off " COVID", flying a drone over the archeology site showing no excavation work done yet and then getting someone from a Diocese from another residential school claim in Saskatchewan to give her a soundbyte that the claim that an evil priest in the 70s had bulldozed over all the headstones wasn't substantiated in the church records.
I don't know that you can blame her for having no substance. The argument that mass graves existed also had literally no substance, and the woman who produced the hypothesis also said that she had no substance.
How do you make a documentary out of a Nothing-Burger from both sides, while one side has committed to a Red Terror that burned 64 churches with support from the government and Civil Liberties organizations?
Southern had the correct narrative and was much earlier than everyone else in calling out the hoax.
Her actual documentary though was padded out with fluff of her getting stonewalled by uncooperative sources rather than much evidence to refute the actual claim of "mass graves".
Really, the only evidence she really presented was an interview with a professor talking about the vagaries of Ground Penetrating Radar, but not specifically about the Kamloops data.
There was another article about a month ago written by ?some American rando? that documented via aerial photography how many times the area of concern has already been excavated serially in Kamloops over the last 50 years (something like 25% of the orchard), including archeological digs from Simon Fraser University, that found absolutely nothing.
"Prove there's no teapot orbiting the sun."
Such a basic fallacy. C'mon, we're better than this. It's up to the person making the positive claim to provide evidence, not the person skeptical of the claim.
Just because she settled on a narrative that fits our politics and ultimately ended up being true doesn't change the fact that it was a shitty documentary.
She could have saved everyone a half an hour of their lives by boiling down the actual evidence she had to a single paragraph.
To be fair, have you ever managed to prove a negative successfully ?