This is just incredible. A female teacher voiced her concerns about school materials that painted a medically unrealistic picture of transition. So this dude accused her of transphobia and threw her out of the meeting. Now he's bragging about doing it.
Beyond satire: They couldn't even figure out how to pin a transphobia rap on the woman, so now they're claiming that she "opened the door to transphobic comments"
As of a few hours ago, apparently, we weren't allowed to see the video. @ScottPiatkowski realizes the whole thing isn't quite as good a look as he first imagined, and is saying that watching him bully a woman might cause "harm" ....
Update: the video was apparently posted and was then taken down. Scott seems to be in damage ctrl mode
This is what the YouTube thumbnail was this morning, before the video was abruptly taken down
By the way, one of the school board trustees cheering on @ScottPiatkowski the loudest is running for the @OntarioNDP ... not a surprise, since school board is junior varsity prep for an mpp run in many cases. This cult is what the whole province soon gets
wow it gets better. our dude @ScottPiatkowski, the social-justice champ who throws women out of @wrdsb meetings if they give him lip, is the only white guy in the group. (Conveniently, he's also the chairperson!) The trustee publicly opposing him is—yup—the only non-white trustee
this thing where academics & Cdn journalists tweet idiotic things about assassinations…It boggles the mind. They’ve seen other ppl lose their careers & reputations over this sort of thing. But they do it anyway. It’s like some kind of self destructive tic they can’t suppress
there’s got to be something else going on psychologically aside from the ideological component. Most of us think things that we don’t say, because we realize it’s inappropriate. But in this case, you have sophisticated people making the same obvious mistake over and over….
my working theory is that these people have a strong theory of evil in the world, and when an evil thing happens to a person whom they regard as evil, and that person attracts sympathy, it short circuits their brain and overrides their normal instinct for self-preservation ….
Your annual Canada Day reminder that Trudeau & his govt “celebrated” Canada Day 2021 by peddling the lie that the “remains” of 215 dead children had been dug out of a field in BC. He never admitted the falsehood, nor have most of the media that uncritically reported this nonsense
I realize that there is a polite, unstated social contract in Canadian political circles that says we should all just pretend the 2021 unmarked graves social panic never happened. We should all just forget about it. It’s rude to bring it up. Erase it from your mind. I refuse to do that
If we don’t honestly confront the hysterias, conspiracy theories and social panics of the past, we’re doomed to repeat them. There’s obviously something broken/rotten in the Cdn political psyche that allowed us to get sucked into these lies. And it’s cowardly for the political and media classes not to face up to this
In light of the endless Canadian nationalist chest-thumping that dominated this election, it’s ironic that the main long-term effect may well be to tip Canada into something resembling a US-style two-party system. (Can’t say this is a bad thing given what an absolute joke the NDP & Green parties have become under Singh and May)
I don’t really write about partisan politics (except for random barbs on social media) and have no deep thoughts to offer about the election results. If Kamala Harris had won the US election, and the Libs hadn’t been able to cynically reinvent themselves as red-and-white face-painted jingoists, Poilievre would now be PM. But politics is full of this kind of randomness. It’s part of the business….
In general, I found the whole campaign season kind of depressing because it just proved how shallow & unstable Canada’s national identity really is. The Liberals went from the party of teary self-lacerating teddy-bear genocide-graveyard post-nationalism to flag-waving jingoists in the space of months, & tried to pretend both personas were authentic. For the most part, our media went along with it. I can’t think of any other country that changes masks like this at the drop of a hat (or writ, as it were)….
I’m not sure there is any real equivalent to Canada‘s Liberal party in any other country. It more or less just transforms itself into whatever voters want. As recently as a few years ago, Trudeau‘s idealized successor was a genderfluid BLM supporter and environmentalist who agonized hourly about indigenous genocide. Then they were like, “oh no, that’s not what anybody wants at all, so let’s just elect a serial G7 banker white dude who flushes all that crap down the toilet.” And it’s working !
The insane thing is how short everyone’s memory in this country is. In 2021, all anyone could talk about was how Canada is a genocide state. In fact, we were a double genocide state! MMIWG and those unmarked graves no one seems to be able to find. You’d think that ending this supposedly ongoing genocide would be the first order of business for any new Prime Minister. Nope. No one cares. Yesterday’s news. Let’s get on with smashing US liquor bottles and trashing Wayne Gretzky.
I mean, imagine being an octo-spirited indigenous double genocide survivor right now. Trudeau has done summersaults explaining how he’s going to lower all the flags for you. He cried. He bent the knee. He wailed and beat his chest. He invented new holidays and unpronounceable acronyms. But now he’s gone and no one in the liberal party gives a fck anymore.
so it turns out that @Nathanielle_Qc, Canada’s $140K/year “advisor to the Minister of Women” who claims male runners have no biological athletic advantages over female runners …. is a biologically male failed Liberal candidate who “wins” 5Km road races in the female category
much of the leaked info I get is from federal bureaucrats, who spend half their time in DEI sessions, learning about how genocidal their employer is.
E.g. these docs concerning an especially disastrous Oct 10 "Indigenous Voices" session at @TransportCA’s Ont office...(thread...)
on 10/10, deputy mins Arun Thangaraj @Transport_DM / Brigitte Diogo brought in a woman named Sandra Bender to do a canned talk on unmarked graves etc. To Bender’s shock, the audience pushed back, noting that those 215 “unmarked graves” don’t seem to exist. So things got wild...
(side note: @TransportCA calls this event “Indigenous Voices.” But Bender’s “voice” isn’t Indigenous. She’s white. You can tell she’s white bcuz her NCTR bio is so long: She adds in every stray bit of intersectional flotsam she can muster, hoping to compensate for her whiteness)