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Aug 25, 2023 13 tweets 6 min read
🚨 THE KOJO FILES, CONT'D

In June 2020, @HCDSB invited Kike Thompson of @KojoInstitute to give an antiracism training seminar that pleaded for "God and all people of colour to forgive us."

Asked for a comment, Halton-Catholic instead deleted the incriminating YouTube video and stonewalled the @nationalpost. Before Kike is allowed to even speak, board chairman @mduarte_HCDSB led educators in a prayer denouncing the scourge of anti-Black racism.

“With this prayer God, we acknowledged the depths of evils that have been perpetrated against black people in North America. From slavery, to lynchings, to white supremacist laws,” Duarte reads from a black presentation slide with words emblazoned in white."

This was just the beginning of the self-flagellations...
Apr 5, 2023 9 tweets 5 min read
Thanks, in part, to the reporting featured in @NRO, one of the leading bodies for math teachers in Ontario, released an official statement that completely ignored the major criticisms aimed at it.

The nothing-burger was filled with lovely buzzwords with no substance whatsoever. @OMCAmath did not clarify if the 'White Supremacy' pyramid reflected the widely held opinion of group members, including whether proponents of math's neutrality or standardized testing *are* covert white supremacists.

First big miss. Image
Mar 27, 2023 11 tweets 4 min read
The second installment of my investigation into Ontario's public school system dropped today.

As provincial math scores plummeted, leading math educators have doubled down on their embrace of 'Woke Math' denying it is a political movement at all.

This piece exposes this farce. 'Woke Math' evangelists cast political Others as the handmaidens of white supremacy – in urgent need of social ostracization and banishment – for believing in the apolitical nature of math and standardized test scores.

They do not offer room for debate or disagreement.
Oct 19, 2022 5 tweets 3 min read
This summer I was in Budapest when I stumbled across a fascinating story. It turns out Hungary has one of the *lowest* rates of violent antisemitism in Europe.

This didn't jive with Western media portraying the country as a neofascist state.

Read in @amconmag why that's wrong The uncomfortable truth about Hungary is that it has one of the lowest smallest Muslim communities in Europe.

In large part thanks to Viktor Orban's staunch defense of Hungarian borders during the Syrian migrant crisis which many denounced as diabolical.