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The @YRDSB sent me an invite to @ebalgord's #SayNoToHate event. The AV presentation is almost ready. 
At least six @YRP uniformed officers are at the @YRDSB Newmarket High School for the #SayNoToHate event. Sounds like extra paid duty.
About 250 seats are in the school auditorium (not the theater) for the #SayNoToHate presentation. I count about 50 guests five minutes before start time.
Cecil Roach is opening now.
Bernie Farber is the first speaker.
.@BernieFarber says that the Newmarket High School was hit by hateful posters this morning. Perhaps somebody can ask for the police report tomorrow.
.@BernieFarber starts with the Keegstra decision. canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/…
Next up is Elizabeth Moore, @onemooreliz
.@onemooreliz starts with Vulnerability Factors, particularly isolation and social trauma. Talks about how she had many.
The slide footer is info-radical.org
.@onemooreliz indirectly invokes Old Economy Steve. knowyourmeme.com/memes/old-econ…
.@onemooreliz tells the story about how she was abused in school for having pale skin, for being a minority, and how it caused her radicalization.
Some of the slides have an @splcenter attribution.
.@onemooreliz talks about how a weak family unit made her vulnerable to love-bombing.
The subtext is that being part of a tribe is a powerful thing. Children need friends; they crave it.
.@onemooreliz identifies a major deficiency in how we raise children into adults, but offers no solutions beyond "more education" with an implied reliance on the government.
The negativity of the lecture annoys me because there are solutions. Keep your families intact. Participate. Lead. Listen. Be a member of your community. Transmit values and morality.
anti-racistcanada.blogspot.com is cited.
.@onemooreliz closed by invoking how Donald Trump puts children in cages. Seemed like a non-sequitur. Is there an equivalent here for Godwins's Law?
Evan Balgord, @ebalgord, is on stage now.
> The alt-right neo-nazi movement is in schools.
We are on topic now.
We are on topic now.
> Kids under 18 are the biggest group doing hate crimes.
@ID__Canada is submitted with a photograph as a hate group.
> Women, Jews, and Muslims are the primary targets of the alt-right.
> Identitarianism == Altright == Genocide
Whew. I need to learn shorthand.
Whew. I need to learn shorthand.
.@ebalgord says that the alt-right gravitates to, and is arguably tolerated by, @fordnation and @peoplespca.
.@ebalgord is introducing boomers in the audience to 4chan, Daily Stormer, and meme culture.
My take on the lecture near the "pathways to radicalization" slide is that @ebalgord and #SayNoToHate are utterly incapable of connecting with young men.
A characteristic of social justice warriors is that all of their solutions require more injustice.
A characteristic of social justice warriors is that all of their solutions require more injustice.
.@ebalgord humble-bragging that he torpedoed events by @StefanMolyneux and @Lauren_Southern. Called @jordanbpeterson a useful idiot in context of the right-wing.
Nothing on the "preventing radicalization" slide is incorrect, but the only solution offered by @ebalgord to #StopTheHate is speech restriction and deplatforming.
Equating speech with violence is intellectually obnoxious.
Equating speech with violence is intellectually obnoxious.
Closing now.
.@BernieFarber says that @YRDSB is the only school board (so far) that is receptive to the #StopTheHate message.
#SayNoToHate, branding fail, natch.
Nothing in the lecture is actionable. #WordSalad
We are hundreds of words into the closing statement and I'm totally confused. #WordSalad with #Dressing
And we are done. No disruptions. No protestors. Bored cops. Bored audience. Half-empty auditorium. #SayNoToHate is a dud.
