What Counts as Residential School Denialism, According to a Book's Co-Editor

CBC reports on the book Truth Before Reconciliation: Confronting Residential School Denialism, and quotes co-editor Sean Carleton on the shape of the problem it addresses. Denialism, in his account, is a spectrum rather than a single flat claim: it can show up as dwelling on the positive elements of residential schools, and it can extend to misrepresenting discoveries of potential unmarked graves near former residential schools. The milder end is the part worth naming. Records can be bent by emphasis and framing before anyone says outright that nothing happened.