In an interview with The Globe and Mail, Norman Retasket, a survivor of the Kamloops school, observed, “If I told the same story three years ago,” about what happened at the school, it would have been seen as “fiction.” Now his stories are believed. “The story hasn’t changed,” he said. “The listener has changed.”

SEED: Potential essay angle on how credibility depends on audience readiness and cultural moment, not the facts themselves.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 853