Talk:Jean-Baptiste Faribault

Not Neutral
"Faribault was always kind and generous to First Nations, and tried to elevate them by teaching them the useful arts of life, and strove to teach them the principles of his religion, Christianity."

These sentences are not objective. They project the racist doctrine that white people had the right and responsibility to "improve" First Nations by assimilating them and replacing their "inferior" cultures and religions with "superior" European cultures and religion. This is racist, offensive, and apologetic for the forced assimilation and child abduction that it promoted. "Elevate" clearly suggests that without European culture the First Nations were deprived and inferior. "useful arts of life" implies that they had none of their own. Teaching (converting people to) Christianity to First Nations is depicted as uncontroversial, with no agknowledgement of the colonial and racist processes of assimilation and cultural destruction and forced conversion connected to this practice.

This language is not neutral.

209.162.56.112 (talk) 02:58, 2 December 2013 (UTC)


 * The sentence tagged as POV was subsequently removed from the article, and I have accordingly removed the top POV tag. -- Michael Devore (talk) 02:35, 28 July 2014 (UTC)