History is Written by the Winners
As Christian Conservatives slowly lose the culture war, history is both being written and rewritten by the ‘progressive’ left.
The Canadian Senate is continuing to rewrite history and silence any opposing voices as they attempt to sanction Senator Lynn Beyak for posting letters from Canadians who have expressed differing views on the Indian Residential School System and its history. While some of these letters may include poorly expressed invective about the peoples and schools, the opinions of Canadians so expressed should not be silenced. If you think their opinion is wrong, and if you think history supports your position, then, in a non-dictatorship such as Canada, you should state your position. If you cannot express clearly and simply why someone is wrong in their views, then you really need to ask yourself why. Is your position weak? Is the history really on your side? If your first and only rebuttal is to silence opposing voices, do you really have truth on your side?
I took a look through Lynn Beyak’s site for the material that must be silenced, I was struck by one letter from an Indigenous leader. This is a side of history that I’ve not seen published before. How many more are there like this? How could this be so opposite of the official ‘progressive’ story?
Why have we never heard this before. This is not what is being taught to our children. Are there other native peoples who tell stories like this? I’m willing to bet there are. As our history is slowly rewritten, it’s the stories like this that will be relegated to garbage bins. These stories that have a positive message but go against the official rewrite must be silenced and eliminated. (I hate to do this because it is so cliché,) but George Orwell’s 1984 is literally coming true in our generation. The “Ministry of Truth” carefully rewrites the story and then eliminates all references to the real past. The record must be corrected to conform with the official history as stated by the ‘progressive’ party. Soon, war will be peace, freedom slavery and ignorance will be strength.
As Canada continues to fracture into ever increasing numbers of groups, these discussion will become more difficult. Lynn Beyak said it best, “Those who seek to divide us are the racists. The rest of us are Canadians. We all bleed the same colour, we all live together in peace and harmony. That’s the way Canada is supposed to be.” Only in a world hell-bent on evil could a statement like that be seen as a negative. Those who silo Canadians into splinter groups and then rank them by their supposed advantage (anyone white) or ‘marginalized’ (everyone else,) see living in harmony and peace together as equals as a bad thing.
As a Christian nationalist, I want a Canada that honours its creators, recognizes the past with both its glories and its blemishes and goes into the future fulfilling the dreams of those that came before us. Indigenous peoples and their histories are part of our Canadian heritage and should be memorialized, not as a bludgeoning tool, but as the story of those who fought each other for the resources of the land long before Europeans arrived. The history of this land is one of war and bloodshed as much as it is about living in harmony with nature. Rewriting our history will not serve future Canadians well, nor will it resolve our current fractured state.