Whoa! Not so Fast:

 Social media reaction to the announcement of the number of school children's bodies found in a BC residential school's grounds is probably premature.

Before we start comparing this with Nazi slaughters at Buchenwald and Dachau, it might be a good idea to see:

--Over how many years did these bodies accumulate? Is there a chance that this was the local burial site?

--Were there no previous enquiries from families? Why the sudden concern?

--What do the school records show? Did anyone in the mainstream media take the time to check?

This announcement has gone into political mode away too fast.

We know why the government sanctioned these schools for aboriginal kids. It was the most direct way to integrate them into modern society. 

The Catholic church was just one of the organizations that had the means to administer a project designed to give aboriginal children the opportunity to succeed in a rapidly changing society.

Depriving children of their native culture and separating them from their families is the political analysis. And we know by now what political analyses are all about.. 

The announcement prompted immediate drumbeats for apologies from junior-grade diplomats like Trudeau looking for ethnic minority votes. So far, nothing from the Pope.

Nor should there be. The schools were a political undertaking. And it was a good one.