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Jan 19 • 19 tweets • 8 min read
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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Jan 6
Interesting @nytimes piece by @Max_Fisher. Russia, Hungary, China etc are sanitizing their national histories, & persecuting those who mention the bad parts. But in Canada/US, it's the opposite: Elites insist our history is nothing but racism & genocide…
nytimes.com/2022/01/05/wor…
... both narratives are profoundly ahistorical (including spin-off myths that present Indigenous societies as eco-feminist collectives populated by pacifistic barb-a-loots & ewoks). Yet some centrifugal force is pushing everyone to embrace one fantasy or the other. Very bizarre
in both cases, history acts as an ersatz creation myth for a post-religious world—but in radically different ways. In Canada, Indigenous societies were/are Eden, and "settlers" have Original Sin. Indigenous peoples therefore become prophet figures who guide us back to Eden ...
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Jan 6
Toronto Star columnist @ShreeParadkar alarmed to discover that local media critic will air media criticism against taxpayer-funded national broadcaster
It's hard to remember this kind of burn-the-witch moment in Canadian media .... oh no wait, sorry, it literally happens all the time
For those lucky enough not to inhabit the toronto media treehouse club: the @TorontoStar is Canada's largest newspaper, and Shree is both its "race and gender columnist" and (I'm not making this up) *also* an internal commissar for colleagues snitching on each other....
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Jan 5
that @TaraRHenley piece about quitting the CBC has really gotten under woke CanLit's skin. Thus do we get the farce of progressive dudes defending a multi-billion-dollar government media company while dumping on a woman who quits to start her own substack. Way to go, dude
And oh yes, of course anyone who reads such a substack must be a "bigot."

and, oh why look, it's some random government-paid senior @UBC bureaucrat just casually smearing a female writer as a racist because ... I don't even know. That's just what these people do.

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Jan 4
hard-core lockdown skeptics share blame for the omicron overreaction. In 2020, many claimed covid was "just like the flu," a deadly delusion. Now comes omicron, which truly is flu-like for vax/boosted. But "just like the flu" has become a tainted phrase: boy-cried-wolf in reverse
I'm no fan of the fearmongering from the Star & other outlets, which reflexively equate lockdown severity with moral virtue & wisdom. But they wouldn't get away with this posture if the other side hadn't made false & deadly claims about herd immunity etc. in the pre-omicron era
by the way, "flu-like" doesn't mean "non deadly." Influenza was killing something like 30K Americans/year before covid showed up. Estimates vary, but Cdn death toll from flu has historically been about a 10th of that, or about 10/day. Unvaxxed omicron #'s aren't far from that...
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Dec 30, 2021
If current patterns hold, and Omicron ends up being as mild as early data indicates, then the main barrier to a resumption of regular life may be as much cultural as medical: We have spent the last 2 yrs obsessed with case counts, and un-learning that fixation will take time...
From early 2020 to November, 2021, cases and deaths moved in a predictable lockstep (even if vaccination steadily started to reduce the proportion of deaths) on a time-delay basis. Then omicron hit, and now that pattern has radically changed....
Omicron is much easier to get and (at least for those vaxxed/boosted) seems to be much less severe. But the old reflexes are still in place. This isn't a big deal for the anti-lockdown fatalists (*everyone* will get omicron, making it the herd phenomenon they always awaited)...
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Dec 28, 2021
I've been in Quebec for a few days
Reported covid cases peaked a few days ago at ~10K (though I'm guessing the real # is several times higher, based on what I've heard)
During 1st wave, daily covid deaths in Quebec peaked at >100
Second wave, it was > 50

Yesterday, it was 3 ImageImageImage
One reason the covid case numbers are coming down, I'm guessing, is that many people are no longer going in for medical treatment, because omicron isnt seen as a threat .... one restaurant manager told me his staff basically all got it. And he just asked them to take a week off
I've no idea how much of this severity drop from delta to onicron is bcuz (1) omicron is inherently less severe, (2) hi vax #'s, (3) skewing of cases to young ppl. Likely a mix of all 3. We'll find out by comparing jurisdictions, bcuz there's 3 variables but 100's of data points
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