Rex Reams Out Victimists Angling for a Genocide Designation on Behalf of Canada's First Nations

Mr. Murphy writes:

From native protestors and spokespeople there is a vigorous resort to current radical jargon — referring to Canadians as colonialist, as settlers, as having a settler’s mentality.  

Though it is awkward to note, there is a play to race in this, a conscious effort to ground all issues in the allegedly unrepentant racism of the “settler community.” This is an effort to force-frame every  dispute in the tendentious framework of the dubious “oppression studies” and “colonial theory” of latter-day universities.

Then there is also an even more deplorable effort to frame the interactions between Canadians and Canada’s aboriginal peoples as a genocide — an accusation both illiterate and insulting.

Gee, you don't think Rex is referring to this "deplorable effort," do you?

But wait--here's the coup de grace:

When Canadians hear “settler” or “colonialist” or “genocide” tossed scornfully at them, they quite reasonably ask themselves: Have all the efforts to respond to native grievance, both financial and political — the very real and dedicated efforts of so many years to get beyond the distrust and anger — been for nothing? 

In a word: yes. But, hey, it's nothing that a little UN "genocide" designation--and the money flow of reparations it would almost certainly bring--can't fix.

Update: Anthony Furey has some ideas re Aboriginal prosperity that don't involve a genocide designation and reparations moolah.