Any institution advancing knowledge of real history is a threat to conservative ideology.
Truth is viewed as indoctrination by conservatives who would white wash ugly truths and focus on white Anglo-Saxon Christian accomplishments. Not on imperialism’s & colonialism’s impact.
Press Secretary Psaki demonstrates how those in power deal with these accusations.
But Albertan parents, curriculum experts and teachers are not in power.
A different strategy is required for those being ruled by far right white supremacists and Christian Nationalists.
Challenge the meta narrative. Reveal its inherent bias and expose conservatism and libertarianism for what they actually are: sanitized imperialism (fascism).
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Characteristic of the further left is the desire to view the world through binary thinking. Good or bad, right or wrong, just or unjust.
Nuance and grey areas are forbidden. So a fissure has emerged between those who support Palestine and those who defend Israel.
It’s a curiosity to witness those who attempt to impose simplicity onto a complex and complicated situation. You can almost feel the angst this is causing within the progressive camp.
Support Jews who have been persecuted for millennia or Palestinians, indigenous to the region?
Israel is a relatively young democracy that emerged shortly after WW2 in allied occupied territory. 1948 to be exact.
What many don’t realize is that at the end of the war, just like at the end of WW1, occupied territories were carved up and borders redrawn.
Those in power felt it was their purview to arbitrarily and autocratically determine the fate of nations and political special interests to claim territory and rejig world order.
WW1 leaders had reassigned territory of the former Ottoman Empire into the nation states of today.
Complexity of global problems requires careful assessment and analysis. If you’re at the stage of picking sides and vilifying an entire nation of people because of what their leadership has done to an entire other nation of people, you’re barking up the wrong tree.
Middle Eastern politics is complicated, complex and nuanced. If you think a simple solution is to be had by vilifying Israel, so not engage with me in discourse.
I absolutely will not tolerate small minded simple solutions to make people feel better & cope with their emotions.
Kenney inserted himself to be part of the pile on that enabled the domestic terrorist attempt on her life through stochastic terrorist rhetoric. Trump’s call to liberate Michigan being the most obvious.
@JasonOnTheDrums@jkenney@GovWhitmer During a tense situation with open insurrection, the premier of Alberta referred to the target of radical extremists as “brain dead.”
Alberta’s premier participated in dehumanization of Gov. Whitmer that very nearly cost the Governor her life.
After being targeted by Trump in an incitement to violence, Alberta’s premier leant a “helping” hand to the incitement of violence, the denigration and dehumanization of a woman who has opposing political beliefs and power.
Kenney is the leader raised up by god. He’s an agent of god.
That’s Dominionist code language to affirm to Dominionists currently suffering from cognitive dissonance that this charade is entirely political theatre.
Anyone who believes Kenney is in any imminent danger of being ousted doesn’t understand the base supporters UCP has.
But they should. The vast majority are evangelical Christians who have abandoned critical thinking and adopted faith in what they are told from their pastor.