"The figures stand. Your attempt to mitigate the atrocities is in itself appalling."

My attempt to stop histrionics from using terms like 'genocide' or comparisons to the Nazi German regime that mass murdered millions of people, you mean?  I'm sorry I'm not catering to the hyperbole floating around in here by actually quoting from the TRC to bring some sense, rationality and reason back in here, but them's the breaks.

It was a horrible time in our past, and those schools were misguided and abusive, but they were an attempt to EDUCATE, not ERADICATE.  I'm not going to apologize for pointing out that difference.  The people who should be ashamed are the ones comparing this to the Holocaust. That kind of baseless virtue signaling is childish.  Yes, yes, yes, we get that you're all so concerned and all so virtuous and moral, but the two really aren't comparable, and every time you try to make that comparison, you look idiotic.