How do we protect white people when many such people don’t care? The fad is self-abasement. The writer says “union members with a specific skin color would receive 50% of the vote, regardless of the number of members with that skin color! And the member who opposed this decision as being unfair was called racist!” Pure insanity. I lost my teaching job fighting race-based discrimination and slanting of education and history. I deeply appreciate the article.
It's just Marxism--the same tired (and potentially deadly) politics of resentment--in a new costume. Race and gender have replaced class as the criteria for victimhood, but the results are similar, and will get worse if we don't continue the fight. For people who have no God, this new form of Marxism takes on the characteristics of a new religion, which explains their often irrational zeal. I love what Flannery O'Conner said about this:
“If other ages felt less, they saw more, even though they
saw with the blind, prophetical, unsentimental eye of
acceptance, which is to say, of faith. In the absence of this
faith now, we govern by tenderness. It is a tenderness which,
long cut off from the person of Christ, is wrapped in theory. When
tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical
outcome is terror. It ends in forced-labor camps and in the fumes of
Good points. I remember the late Palestinian activist Edward Said (a self admitted Marxist who studied at Oxford and wrote the playbook for much of the Palestinian propaganda) speaking of using the "sentimentality" of Western audiences to help get support for his cause. This was certainly new for Marxism - but they were scrambling to get their ideas accepted by Western secular liberals - hence the need for a new playbook. Yes, today's sentimental audiences are usually devoid of religion and of logical thought! The Marxists count on this!
Very moving article. Back in the 1990s, when I was compelled to take critical race and gender theory courses in order to get my bachelors degree in Communication Studies at Montreal's Concordia University, one of my profs - a young Asian woman - reviewed some material with the class and then added her thoughts: "Personally, I don't think racism will go away by guilting people about it and then applying reverse racism. Two wrongs don't make a right." I forget this prof's name but even if I remembered it, I would not publicize it. Because if she's still teaching at this university and is still making her views known, she won't be teaching there for much longer.
Back then they hadn't even gone into the "intersectionality" stuff. Trans wasn't on the radar yet, either. But the toxic intent was there from the get-go.
And the status quo at the time, generally, was that merit mattered, and whiners were shunned. Now in most of the Establishment the new norms are the reverse, at least publicly.
Not so much in the liberal arts. Even then I remember them letting almost anyone in. My dept. Communication Studies, was a bit more picky. You had to show them a decent portfolio of your writing, art, film, whatever.
Yes certainly. What is now called 'intersectionality' was well known as a concept a long time back, I recall as an engineering student at McGill in the mid 1980s we used to joke that diversity hire types would put an imagined 'disabled black lesbian" at the top of the victim pecking order. This is like 40 years ago. We were joking, but we could see where things were going.
Interesting. None of my assigned reading back then discussed it. But I remember thinking (and chuckling) to myself "geez, I wonder if I get brownie points for being disabled, female, Jewish and an anglophone in Quebec!" (I'm a left leg amputee who got around on crutches). But then I had to strike off the "Jewish" because despite millennia of persecution, Jews were considered by the critical race theorists to be the henchmen of the White Christian European Establishment and that we "passed" for white. So we didn't count! lol. As for being an Anglo in Quebec (which, then and now, makes you a 2nd class citizen) that wasn't on their radar either.
This is solid. The blame oriented victim-celebration culture of the Ontario school system is a genuine problem. Lets get to work with a pro human approach a fix it!
I have no faith whatsoever that Premier Ford, or any other politician will do or say anything. They are all intimidated and without courage or character. This is something that has been coming for a long time. I suspect there will be far more of this vile behaviour in our future, not to mention the violence that will be used to silence dissenters. With respect to education, the government needs to allow parents to pick the schools they want for their children, and send their not inconsequential tax contributions to that school.
How do we protect white people when many such people don’t care? The fad is self-abasement. The writer says “union members with a specific skin color would receive 50% of the vote, regardless of the number of members with that skin color! And the member who opposed this decision as being unfair was called racist!” Pure insanity. I lost my teaching job fighting race-based discrimination and slanting of education and history. I deeply appreciate the article.
It's just Marxism--the same tired (and potentially deadly) politics of resentment--in a new costume. Race and gender have replaced class as the criteria for victimhood, but the results are similar, and will get worse if we don't continue the fight. For people who have no God, this new form of Marxism takes on the characteristics of a new religion, which explains their often irrational zeal. I love what Flannery O'Conner said about this:
“If other ages felt less, they saw more, even though they
saw with the blind, prophetical, unsentimental eye of
acceptance, which is to say, of faith. In the absence of this
faith now, we govern by tenderness. It is a tenderness which,
long cut off from the person of Christ, is wrapped in theory. When
tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical
outcome is terror. It ends in forced-labor camps and in the fumes of
the gas chamber.”
―
Flannery O'Connor,
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Good points. I remember the late Palestinian activist Edward Said (a self admitted Marxist who studied at Oxford and wrote the playbook for much of the Palestinian propaganda) speaking of using the "sentimentality" of Western audiences to help get support for his cause. This was certainly new for Marxism - but they were scrambling to get their ideas accepted by Western secular liberals - hence the need for a new playbook. Yes, today's sentimental audiences are usually devoid of religion and of logical thought! The Marxists count on this!
Yes, absolutely, its the politics of resentment.
Very moving article. Back in the 1990s, when I was compelled to take critical race and gender theory courses in order to get my bachelors degree in Communication Studies at Montreal's Concordia University, one of my profs - a young Asian woman - reviewed some material with the class and then added her thoughts: "Personally, I don't think racism will go away by guilting people about it and then applying reverse racism. Two wrongs don't make a right." I forget this prof's name but even if I remembered it, I would not publicize it. Because if she's still teaching at this university and is still making her views known, she won't be teaching there for much longer.
Good comment. Critical Theory is utterly toxic.
Back then they hadn't even gone into the "intersectionality" stuff. Trans wasn't on the radar yet, either. But the toxic intent was there from the get-go.
And the status quo at the time, generally, was that merit mattered, and whiners were shunned. Now in most of the Establishment the new norms are the reverse, at least publicly.
Not so much in the liberal arts. Even then I remember them letting almost anyone in. My dept. Communication Studies, was a bit more picky. You had to show them a decent portfolio of your writing, art, film, whatever.
OK I see. I come from the business-engineering world where all that mattered then was competence, performance, merit and the bottom line.
Yes certainly. What is now called 'intersectionality' was well known as a concept a long time back, I recall as an engineering student at McGill in the mid 1980s we used to joke that diversity hire types would put an imagined 'disabled black lesbian" at the top of the victim pecking order. This is like 40 years ago. We were joking, but we could see where things were going.
Interesting. None of my assigned reading back then discussed it. But I remember thinking (and chuckling) to myself "geez, I wonder if I get brownie points for being disabled, female, Jewish and an anglophone in Quebec!" (I'm a left leg amputee who got around on crutches). But then I had to strike off the "Jewish" because despite millennia of persecution, Jews were considered by the critical race theorists to be the henchmen of the White Christian European Establishment and that we "passed" for white. So we didn't count! lol. As for being an Anglo in Quebec (which, then and now, makes you a 2nd class citizen) that wasn't on their radar either.
Yeah I get it, I am Quebec anglo too.
This is solid. The blame oriented victim-celebration culture of the Ontario school system is a genuine problem. Lets get to work with a pro human approach a fix it!
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
Robertson Davies
God bless Richard Bilkszto and his family.
One absolutely disgraceful thing is that the debacle in Ontario education is happening under a Conservative government. Where is the solution?
I have no faith whatsoever that Premier Ford, or any other politician will do or say anything. They are all intimidated and without courage or character. This is something that has been coming for a long time. I suspect there will be far more of this vile behaviour in our future, not to mention the violence that will be used to silence dissenters. With respect to education, the government needs to allow parents to pick the schools they want for their children, and send their not inconsequential tax contributions to that school.
Please share this petition about Richard widely.
Thank you
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Excellent article. But I think you mean systemically, not systematically.