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Jonathan Kay Profile picture
@jonkay
Jan 19, 2022 • 19 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
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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"

This is a school board trustee, apologizing to anyone "harmed" by ... a teacher asking a question about a book

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
Infantile.

Same dude

therecord.com/news/waterloo-…
Colleagues actually cheering him on

Here's a town councilor repeating the lie that this was about enforcing the ontario human rights code
Local MPP of course

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
"So very real"
All the cultists coming out to cheer Scott on

Grade 1 teacher cheering a dude who smacked down a female colleague who'd asked about a book that presents transition as a solution to life's problems
This is one of the four trustees who voted to let the teacher speak. She is now begging for forgiveness for having done so.

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
@ScottPiatkowski @wrdsb But hey, you can watch Scott in action for yourselves ....
President of local teachers' union lining up in support of our dude @ScottPiatkowski

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Jul 1
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 Image
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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
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Apr 29
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)….
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Mar 15
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.
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Feb 6
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 Image
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In this race, the stunning and brave advisor came in first, beating out a 12-year-old girl by 36 seconds Image
(None of this is private information, by the way. Morin’s public instagram is full of these shots) Image
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Oct 29, 2024
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...) Image
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... Image
(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) Image
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Oct 6, 2024
I do a weekly shift at a Toronto food bank, where we serve almost 400 people per week, at least a third of whom are recently arrived Muslim immigrants (we’re near thorncliffe park). You know how many keffiyehs/palestinian-themed symbols I see every week? Zero. None. Nada. While many of these clients no doubt have geopolitical views very different from my own, they have the good sense & manners not to alienate those around them. (The food bank in question is a church, and many of the volunteers are Jewish. We would never deny anyone entry based on whether they were wearing a keffiyeh, needless to say.) This aggressive anti-Israeli (and sometimes antisemitic) radicalism u see in these “all out for [demonizing Israel|” hate jamborees should *not* be taken as an excuse to vilify the Canadian Muslim community as a whole. By my observation over the past two years at the food bank, the majority of Canadian muslims are focused on the same basic (Canadian) challenges we all face. The performative cadres u see in these videos are very much (though admittedly not exclusively) an extension of upper middle class campus protest culture, fueled by institutionally ensconced (non Muslim) hatebags such as Fred Hahn. This is something I’d ask my followers to remember before they give vent to Islamophobia in their comments.
By the way, I got to know some of these residents of Thorncliffe Park pretty well when I took the city of Toronto taxi course for a blubbertusk cover story I did on the growth of Uber and the demise of taxis. The vast majority of the people in the class were Muslims, and I used to give some of them a lift back to their apartment complexes along Overlea blvd (near what was then my favourite Wendy’s). we talked about all sorts of things, but I really never heard them bring up the Middle East or anything like that. They are mostly just pissed off that it’s so hard to get their professional accreditations back home recognized in Canada.
Generally, speaking, the most radicalized members of our society are now those who spend 16 hours a day in front of their computer, getting themselves riled up over YouTube videos, and other forms of cult-silo political propaganda. This includes both social justice maniacs who insist that Israel is a Nazi genocide colonizer destroying watermelon turtle Island; but also monomaniacal Zionists; who seem to believe that every Muslim they meet has been programmed by seventh century Bedouins to kill everybody at the next wadi. Get out of your house. Go play disc golf. Volunteer somewhere. See how real people live.
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