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🍁 school's educational anti-racist book-burning gets CANCELLED after the organizer is revealed to be the long lost cousin of Elizabeth Warren

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/book-burning-at-ontario-francophone-schools-as-gesture-of-reconciliation-denounced

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2021/09/08/ontario-school-board-held-flame-purification-ceremony-to-remove-books-offensive-to-aboriginal-knowledge-keepers-n414576

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/book-burning-at-ontario-francophone-schools-as-gesture-of-reconciliation-denounced/ar-AAOcyYP

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-school-board-regrets-burning-books-in-the-name-of-reconciliation-as-part-of-educational-program-1.5580647

https://rt.com/news/534296-canada-book-burning-indigenous/

"People panic about burning books, but we’re talking about millions of books that have negative images of indigenous people, that perpetuate stereotypes, that are really damaging and dangerous."

Among them are classic titles, such as Tintin in America, which was withdrawn for its “negative portrayal of indigenous peoples and offending Aboriginal representation in the drawings.”

Also removed were books that allegedly contain cultural appropriation, as well as outdated history books, such as two biographies of Jacques Cartier, a French explorer who mapped the St. Lawrence, and another of explorer Étienne Brûlé.

The book-burning story took an unexpected twist on Wednesday, with Radio Canada reporting that Kies might have not had the aboriginal roots she claimed to have. While Kies claimed that one of her parents was of aboriginal origin and one of European origin, the outlet cited civil status records suggesting that her father was born in Luxembourg and her mother was French.

Dominique Ritchot, a genealogical researcher cited by Radio Canada, concluded the “knowledge keeper” had “no aboriginal ancestors for at least seven generations.”

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"People panic about burning books, but we’re talking about millions of books that have negative images of indigenous people, that perpetuate stereotypes, that are really damaging and dangerous."

Don't care, you're still burning books, and that's never a good thing.

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