Canadian Teachers not Free to Discuss Reasons for Trump Victory
American voters rejected “wokeism” in all its putrid forms
Woke Watch Canada is a reader-supported publication. Please consider becoming a paying subscriber or making a one-time or recurring donation to show your support.
By Igor Stravinsky (Teacher, commentator)
Donald Trump’s return to power in the United States represents a rejection by American voters of the status quo in US politics, a status quo which has seen political power commandeered by unaccountable social justice activists and their allies in academia who exercised their vast networks of soft power to de-platform and cancel anyone who dared question their postmodern worldview. American institutions from the top down have been captured by this toxic ideology and even private corporations initially got on the bandwagon, only recently to begin a pullback as the truth of the aphorism “go woke, go broke” became too obvious to ignore any longer.
Be that as it may, Canadian teachers better be wary of any such analysis, at least in Ontario and BC. The Ontario Ministry of Education, run by putative conservative Doug Ford, the Ontario College of Teachers (regulatory body for the teaching profession in Ontario), school boards, and teachers’ unions are all totally captured by “wokeism” (critical theory), so anyone who questions the postmodern idea that society is made up of identity groups locked in a power struggle or that the truth is simply whatever you believe it to be without regard to objective reality, is met with a furious backlash of naming, shaming, and discipline. To question anything a person who is a member of an “historically marginalized group” claims is immediately branded “denialism” or “racist”.
Americans are lucky, in that they have a constitution which states, in the 14th amendment:
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Compare that to the Canadian Constitution, Article 15:
15 (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.
(2) Subsection (1) does not preclude any law, program or activity that has as its object the amelioration of conditions of disadvantaged individuals or groups including those that are disadvantaged because of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.
Canadian courts have consistently ruled that any kind of law, program, or activity that gives preferential treatment to people who are members of the “disadvantaged groups” listed in Article 15(2) is legal, without any need to demonstrate that the particular people who benefit are, in fact, disadvantaged in any specific instance. The courts have affirmed that simply being a member of such a group, in and of itself, means you are disadvantaged, and by extension, if you are not a member of any such group (i.e. you are white) then you cannot be considered disadvantaged. As such, individual rights and freedoms are substantially limited in Canada and there is no obvious limit to the extent to which they could be further legally restricted.
The American election is a huge teachable moment for the Canadian education systems, but that moment will be wasted because Canadian teachers have been muzzled and cannot discuss the fact that, like the USA, we have been suffering through years of urban mayhem (violent street crime and drug abuse), open borders, and general social erosion brought about by abandoning core principles like merit, individual rights and responsibilities, and embracing our common humanity (rather than dividing into tribes and fighting each other for resources). In postmodern Canada, Ground Penetrating Radar images become a declaration of genocide. Asking for evidence to prove “systemic racism” gets you branded a racist.
Here in Canada, our day of reckoning is coming. It will be a lot more gentle if we can learn from what has happened to our powerful neighbor south of the border. But I’m not holding my breath. Those who have seized power rarely relinquish it without a fight.
Thanks for reading. For more from this author, read Legacy Media Equates IRS Truth Telling with Murder
Follow Woke Watch Canada on X - @WokeWatchCanada
Support Woke Watch Canada by upgrading to a paid membership:
Or, by contributing to our Donor Box:
Why do you call it the Canadian Constitution? Isn't it the Charter of Rights and Freedoms of 1982?
Excerpt from the link below:
https://www.realwomenofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/FINAL-SPEECH_for-website-Changing-Canadas-Christian-Culture.pdf
"A bloodless revolution took place in Canada in 1982 when the Charter of Rights,
promoted by Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, became a part of our constitution.
Prior to the Charter, Canadian laws and democracy were based on Judeo-Christian
principles, anchored in the common good. These Judeo-Christian-based laws allowed
Canadian society to flourish and thrive. These laws, however, have been eliminated by
judges under the Charter so that Canada has become a secular humanist society."
My sister is a teacher. I love her, but I’ve never met a more dumb person. She gets by very well, because society allows her to be a bully and a woke know it all, regurgitating useless terms she been taught. Zero critical thinking. She’s the same, as the feminist oncology doctor who did absolutely nothing to save my mother from cancer. When I questioned them, to try alternative drugs like ivermectin, the feminist doctor was solely focused on showing what a strong woman she was, and talked down to me, and failed to do anything for my mom. Woke, feminism, left radicals, indoctrination do gooders, all clueless hypocrites. Rip to my beautiful mom.