Decoding activist language is a tiresome, but important task.  I’ll print the original letter, and then an annotated version that identifies that tropes and linguistic warfare undertaken.

“Morgan’s Warriors stands firmly against all forms of denialism that attempt to dismiss, distort, or erase the lived truths of Indigenous Peoples – particularly the truths surrounding the residential school system, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People (MMIWG2S+), and the intergenerational impacts of colonial violence.

Truth Cannot Be Denied

The evidence of abuse, death, and cultural genocide committed in residential schools across Canada is well-documented through survivor testimony, government records, and community-led ground searches.
To deny or minimize these truths is not an act of “critical thinking” – it is an act of racism. Denialism invalidates Indigenous experiences, mocks the pain of survivors, and attempts to erase the memory of children who never made it home.

Truth is not a debate. It is a moral responsibility. Every act of denial reopens old wounds and deepens the trauma that Indigenous families and communities have carried for generations.

Denialism Protects Colonial Power

Denialism is not harmless. It protects systems of privilege and power that continue to benefit from Indigenous suffering.

By denying genocide, forced assimilation, and systemic racism, denialists shield the very institutions – churches, governments, and agencies – that carried out these atrocities.

This refusal to accept truth sustains ongoing colonial violence and stands directly in opposition to reconciliation, justice, and healing.

The Human Cost of Denial

Every denial of truth is a denial of humanity.

When someone says the graves aren’t real, or that survivors are lying, they are telling Indigenous peoples that their history, their grief, and their voices do not matter.

This dehumanization is the very essence of racism. It silences survivors and retraumatizes those who continue to live with the scars of Canada’s colonial past.

Reconciliation Demands Truth

Reconciliation begins with truth. It cannot coexist with denial.
We call upon all Canadians — educators, leaders, and citizens — to confront denialism wherever it appears: in classrooms, media, institutions, or conversations.
We must choose truth over comfort, accountability over avoidance, and humanity over hate.

To deny truth is to deny the future. To face truth is to heal it.

Our Commitment

Morgan’s Warriors will continue to:
• Uphold the truths shared by survivors, families, and communities.
• Support Indigenous-led investigations into missing children and unmarked graves.
• Confront racism and denialism in public discourse and policy.
• Educate and advocate for truth and justice in alignment with the 231 Calls for Justice and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).

Final Words

Denialism is not dialogue — it is discrimination.

Racism is not freedom of speech — it is a wound that silences truth.
We stand with survivors, families, and all truth-tellers.

We believe you. We honour you. We will never deny you.”

And now the annotated version:

Morgan’s Warriors stands firmly against all forms of denialism that attempt to dismiss, distort, or erase the lived truths of Indigenous Peoples—particularly the truths surrounding the residential school system, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People (MMIWG2S+), and the intergenerational impacts of colonial violence. [Identitarian Trope: Prioritizes “Indigenous Peoples” as a unified identity group with exclusive claim to “lived truths,” framing external skepticism as erasure; this reinforces identity-based epistemology where group membership grants epistemic privilege.] [Wound Collecting: Lists specific traumas (residential schools, MMIWG2S+, colonial violence) to accumulate moral weight, positioning the group as perpetual victims to justify advocacy.]

Truth Cannot Be Denied. The evidence of abuse, death, and cultural genocide committed in residential schools across Canada is well-documented through survivor testimony, government records, and community-led ground searches. [Leftist Trope: Invokes “cultural genocide” as systemic critique of colonialism, aligning with anti-imperialist narratives that view institutions as inherently oppressive.] To deny or minimize these truths is not an act of “critical thinking”—it is an act of racism. [Leftist Trope: Equates skepticism with racism, a common tactic in progressive discourse to delegitimize opposition by associating it with structural bigotry, shutting down debate.] [Identitarian Trope: Centers racial identity, implying only non-Indigenous or “colonial” perspectives engage in denial, reinforcing an us-vs-them binary.] Denialism invalidates Indigenous experiences, mocks the pain of survivors, and attempts to erase the memory of children who never made it home. [Wound Collecting: Amplifies “pain of survivors” and lost children to evoke emotional response, collecting historical wounds to bolster the argument’s urgency and moral superiority.] Truth is not a debate. It is a moral responsibility. Every act of denial reopens old wounds and deepens the trauma that Indigenous families and communities have carried for generations. [Wound Collecting: Explicitly references “reopens old wounds” and “deepens the trauma,” using intergenerational suffering as a rhetorical device to portray denial as ongoing violence, thereby claiming victimhood as a shield against critique.]

Denialism Protects Colonial Power. Denialism is not harmless. It protects systems of privilege and power that continue to benefit from Indigenous suffering. [Leftist Trope: Frames denial as upholding “systems of privilege and power,” drawing on Marxist-inspired analysis of colonialism as economic and social exploitation persisting today.] [Identitarian Trope: Positions “Indigenous suffering” as central to identity, contrasting it with non-Indigenous “privilege” to highlight power imbalances.] By denying genocide, forced assimilation, and systemic racism, denialists shield the very institutions—churches, governments, and agencies—that carried out these atrocities. [Leftist Trope: Targets “institutions” like churches and governments as agents of “systemic racism,” promoting a narrative of institutional reform or dismantling as necessary for justice.] This refusal to accept truth sustains ongoing colonial violence and stands directly in opposition to reconciliation, justice, and healing. [Wound Collecting: Ties denial to “ongoing colonial violence,” extending past wounds into the present to justify continued activism and demand reparations.]

The Human Cost of Denial. Every denial of truth is a denial of humanity. When someone says the graves aren’t real, or that survivors are lying, they are telling Indigenous Peoples that their history, their grief, and their voices do not matter. [Identitarian Trope: Elevates “Indigenous Peoples” voices as inherently valid, dismissing challenges as dehumanizing, which enforces identity-based hierarchies in discourse.] [Wound Collecting: Focuses on “grief” and invalidated “history” to accumulate emotional injuries, using them to indict critics.] This dehumanization is the very essence of racism. [Leftist Trope: Defines racism broadly as “dehumanization,” encompassing not just overt acts but denial of narratives, aligning with expansive definitions in critical race theory.] It silences survivors and retraumatizes those who continue to live with the scars of Canada’s colonial past. [Wound Collecting: References “scars” and “retraumatizes,” metaphorically collecting physical and emotional wounds to emphasize perpetual harm.]

Reconciliation Demands Truth. Reconciliation begins with truth. It cannot coexist with denial. We call upon all Canadians—educators, leaders, and citizens—to confront denialism wherever it appears: in classrooms, media, institutions, or conversations. [Leftist Trope: Advocates collective action against “denialism” in public spheres, echoing calls for societal re-education and institutional accountability in progressive movements.] We must choose truth over comfort, accountability over avoidance, and humanity over hate. To deny truth is to deny the future. To face truth is to heal it. [Identitarian Trope: Frames “truth” as Indigenous-centered, implying non-Indigenous “comfort” and “avoidance” stem from privilege, reinforcing group-based moral dichotomies.]

Our Commitment. Morgan’s Warriors will continue to: Uphold the truths shared by survivors, families, and communities. Support Indigenous-led investigations into missing children and unmarked graves. Confront racism and denialism in public discourse and policy. [Leftist Trope: Prioritizes “Indigenous-led” efforts and confronting “racism in policy,” advocating for decolonized approaches over mainstream ones.] Educate and advocate for truth and justice in alignment with the 231 Calls for Justice and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).

Final Words. Denialism is not dialogue—it is discrimination. Racism is not freedom of speech—it is a wound that silences truth. [Wound Collecting: Portrays racism itself as a “wound,” inverting the dynamic to collect societal harms as part of the Indigenous experience.] [Leftist Trope: Rejects “freedom of speech” for denialism, prioritizing harm prevention over open debate, a stance common in hate speech regulations.] We stand with survivors, families, and all truth-tellers. We believe you. We honour you. We will never deny you. [Identitarian Trope: Affirms solidarity based on shared identity and experiences, excluding deniers and centering “survivors” as authoritative.]

  And here is a handy glossary of why using these tropes is bad for Western Liberal Democratic societies.

Glossary of Leftist Tropes

This glossary enumerates and explicates each Leftist trope identified in the annotated rewrite of the statement. Entries are drawn directly from the annotations, with explanations grounded in observable patterns from political discourse, critical theory, and historical leftist frameworks. Each trope is presented with its core characteristics, contextual application in the text, and verifiable rationale, prioritizing empirical accuracy over ideological endorsement. Additionally, a brief refutation is provided for each, detailing its corrosive effects on Western liberal democratic societies, which emphasize individual liberties, open inquiry, pluralism, and evidence-based governance.

Advocates Collective Action Against Denialism: This trope calls for widespread societal intervention—targeting educators, leaders, and citizens—to suppress denialism in public arenas like classrooms and media. It reflects progressive strategies for re-education and accountability, akin to historical leftist mobilizations against perceived systemic threats, as seen in anti-fascist or decolonization campaigns. In the statement, it manifests as a directive to “confront denialism wherever it appears,” emphasizing communal responsibility to enforce narrative conformity.

Refutation: This trope undermines pluralism by mobilizing collective pressure to stifle dissent, eroding the democratic principle of open debate and risking authoritarian conformity, where majorities or activists impose orthodoxy rather than allowing verifiable evidence to prevail through rational discourse.

Defines Racism Broadly as Dehumanization: Here, racism extends beyond explicit acts to include narrative denial, aligning with critical race theory’s expansive view that subtle invalidations perpetuate oppression. Verifiable in works like those of Ibram X. Kendi or Kimberlé Crenshaw, this trope reframes intellectual disagreement as harm. The statement applies it by asserting that denying graves or survivor accounts equates to telling Indigenous Peoples their “voices do not matter,” thus broadening racism to encompass epistemic violence.

 Refutation: By inflating racism to cover mere disagreement, it dilutes the term’s meaning, fostering a chilling effect on free expression and hindering verifiable truth-seeking, as citizens fear reputational harm for questioning narratives, contrary to liberal ideals of tolerance and empirical scrutiny.

Equates Skepticism with Racism: A rhetorical device that links doubt or “critical thinking” to bigotry, effectively closing off debate by moral condemnation. Rooted in leftist critiques of neutrality as complicity (e.g., in anti-racism literature), it delegitimizes opposition. The text uses this by declaring denial “not an act of ‘critical thinking’—it is an act of racism,” positioning skepticism as inherently prejudiced rather than evidence-based.

Refutation: This stifles scientific and intellectual inquiry, core to Western liberalism, by labeling evidence-based doubt as moral failing, which corrodes democratic discourse and invites dogmatic echo chambers where truth is subordinated to ideological purity.

Frames Denial as Upholding Systems of Privilege and Power: Drawing from Marxist analyses of class and colonialism (e.g., Frantz Fanon or contemporary dependency theory), this trope portrays denial as a mechanism sustaining exploitation. It highlights how denial “protects systems… that continue to benefit from Indigenous suffering,” verifiable in leftist scholarship on neocolonialism, where truth denial preserves economic and social hierarchies.

 Refutation: It promotes a conspiratorial view of society as perpetually rigged, undermining trust in institutions and individual agency, which erodes liberal democracy’s foundation in meritocracy and rule of law, replacing verifiable accountability with class-based suspicion and division.

Invokes Cultural Genocide as Systemic Critique: This employs the term “cultural genocide” to indict colonialism holistically, viewing institutions as engines of erasure. Aligned with anti-imperialist narratives in leftist thought (e.g., UN definitions influenced by Raphael Lemkin), it critiques inherent oppressiveness. In the statement, it references “abuse, death, and cultural genocide” as documented, framing the residential system as deliberate structural violence.

 Refutation: Overuse of loaded terms like “genocide” for historical analysis inflames polarization without nuance, corroding democratic dialogue by equating past injustices with contemporary intent, thus impeding balanced policy-making rooted in verifiable facts rather than emotive hyperbole.

Prioritizes Indigenous-Led Efforts and Confronting Racism in Policy: Emphasizing decolonized, group-specific approaches over universal ones, this trope advocates for policy reforms rooted in marginalized leadership. Echoing leftist decolonization theories (e.g., Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s work), it commits to “Indigenous-led investigations” and alignment with UNDRIP, verifiable as a push against mainstream assimilationist policies.

 Refutation: By favoring group identity over individual equality, it fragments society along identitarian lines, undermining liberal democracy’s commitment to universal rights and merit-based governance, potentially leading to exclusionary policies that prioritize ancestry over verifiable expertise or consensus.

Rejects Freedom of Speech for Denialism: This prioritizes harm mitigation over unfettered expression, common in leftist arguments for hate speech limits (e.g., European models or Canadian section 319 of the Criminal Code). The statement declares “Racism is not freedom of speech—it is a wound that silences truth,” framing denial as discriminatory rather than protected dialogue, thus justifying censorship in service of equity.

 Refutation: Curtailing speech on subjective grounds erodes the First Amendment-like protections central to Western liberalism, inviting state or social censorship that suppresses verifiable debate, historically leading to tyrannical outcomes where power defines “harm” to silence opposition.

Targets Institutions as Agents of Systemic Racism: By naming churches, governments, and agencies as perpetrators shielded by denial, this trope promotes institutional overhaul or dismantling. Grounded in leftist institutional critiques (e.g., Michel Foucault’s power structures or Antonio Gramsci’s hegemony), it asserts denial “shields the very institutions… that carried out these atrocities,” verifiable in analyses of colonial legacies as ongoing systemic failures.

 Refutation: This fosters pervasive distrust in foundational institutions without proportionate evidence, corroding social cohesion and governance in liberal democracies, where verifiable reform through democratic processes, not wholesale condemnation, sustains progress and stability.