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Jonathan Kay

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Oct 6

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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Jonathan Kay

@jonkay

Sep 24

Appreciate @Noahpinion sharing my @Quillette piece far & wide. But a few refinements in regard to this tweet.
1) even indigenous groups didn’t claim there was a “mass grave.” That was an invention of @ianrausten of the @nytimes (which, inexplicably, still hasn’t run a correction on his hideously botched 2021 articles) ….

2) the far more common claim (which caused the 2021 social panic in Canada) was that 215 *individual* “unmarked graves” had been found. This was also completely untrue. What was found were GPR anomalies, which, even 3 years later, have yielded zero graves. Some sites have been dug up & there was nothing there (to the enormous disappointment of the justly mortified Canadian media corps)…

3) none of this changes the fact that thousands of children did die at residential schools, and the system was indefensible. A stain on our history. it should also be pointed out that scattered graves without surviving markings may one day be found. Hasn’t happened since the 2021 social panic, but I suppose it’s possible.

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Jonathan Kay

@jonkay

Sep 13, 2023

A group called Mohawk Mothers has been seeking to delay/block McGill U’s “New Vic” project in Montreal—based on claims of secret burials & unmarked Indigenous graves on the site. Today, @mcgillu’s provost reported that no graves were found, including in areas identified by GPR...

(no word yet on whether McGill's leadership team will be indicted on charges of "denialism")

cbc.ca/news/canada/sa…

By the way, can anybody find a news source where this has been public reported? If any remains had been found (here or anywhere), it would be leading every news broadcast. It'd be odd if the opposite news were confined to an internal McGill email

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Jonathan Kay

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Jul 20, 2023

https://twitter.com/SOSTDSB/status/1682132102106497024

I spoke to Richard a few times. He was publicly denounced by an equity consultant hired by TDSB to tell white ppl how racist they are. Richard questioned her absurd claims, & the woman used him as a case study in evil "whiteness"
This is what's become of TDSB under @TDSBDirector

https://twitter.com/SOSTDSB/status/1682132102106497024

There's a recording of this equity consultant hysterically attacking Richard for his supposed racistness. In the fullness of time, it should all be made public. This tragic episode gives us a window into the sadistic mindset of the fanatics who've taken over our school boards

last year, Richard brought me in as a guest speaker for a Toronto group concerned about the state of education. I learned Richard wasn't a conservative. He was a progressive who'd seen the harm that social justice fanaticism causes to society. He tried to be part of the solution

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Jonathan Kay

@jonkay

Apr 29, 2023

@AbigailShrier

What a pity that this ridiculous CBC hit job on @AbigailShrier can't get the massive ratio it deserves

cbc.ca/news/canada/no…

Like clockwork

Lol it required not one but two CBC reporters to write this

https://twitter.com/xjackiehong/status/1652401045837062146?t=snR7PPv0PyuH19nvADzzWg&s=19

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Jonathan Kay

@jonkay

Apr 29, 2023

a lot of parents are now telling me that their teenagers' social media feeds, especially TikTok, have started to shift 180 degrees on genderwang. the once-revered (bio-male) trans "influencers" & athletes are becoming figures of ridicule. pendulum seems to be swinging back hard

Teenagers aren't dumb, but they do move in herds. The genderwang stuff was fun when it felt vaguely transgressive and daring. Now that they hear their dinosaur teachers and parents mumbling pronoun checks (not to mention the Bud Light & Hershey's fiascos), it's time to move on

I'm trying to guess what the next fad will be. Maybe putting shoe polish on your face & calling yourself transracial. I know that sounds insane, but it's actually less idiotic (& will do less medical damage) to depressed goths than sterilizing themselves in the name of genderwang

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