It should not come as a surprise to anyone that we are in the grips of a cult of ignorance where reason, commonsense and critical thought are subjugated to the will of convoluted ideology dictated to by the whim and will of a woke master. It would almost be a relief to see the return of Charlie Manson.
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”
A land acknowledgement indeed “serves as a distraction from reality and imposes another belief system that erodes our pride and love for our great nation.” I won’t ever be part of one again. It is compelled speech, false history, and a call for ethnic feudalism with native lords.
"Am I truly the only one who sees the simultaneous deletion of present parents while condemning the deletion of past parents as not just ironic, but outright abhorrent? "
Nice catch. This is, of course, sheer hypocrisy. But expecting fairness and consistency from the woke left is totally futile.
An NDP government has just been elected in Manitoba. The majority of Canadians continue to vote for and to endorse "progressive" policies, including compelled speech. By the time the Federal election happens in 2025, we'll see if very many will have changed their minds.
I thought there was some kind of legislation that prevented someone with a criminal record (which, oddly, has been removed from the database) for running for public office. I guess not. Taxpayers will now face paying somewhere around 250 million or way more to excavate two landfills (see A Chemist In Langley's blog post on the inherent dangers in doing so) when the real question should be where were the families of the deceased women when they were really needed.
Kinew was granted a record suspension – essentially a pardon – for his 2003 and 2004 convictions. And I believe the charge of domestic assault from around the same time was stayed.
This was kind of interesting the other day, though, about FSIN chief Bobby Cameron: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/criminal-record-saskatchewan-first-nation-chief-1.6977859 . The electoral officer at the time of his election was apparently "silenced" -- though several other candidates were disqualified from running in that 2021 election because of criminal records, including one of Cameron's rivals for the chief role.
BTW, Allison, been meaning to let you know that I was able to rent that documentary, No Way Back (formerly Affirmation Generation), and it was indeed good. I shared the 3-day rental with my daughter, who has step-kids in school, but I haven't heard yet whether she was able to watch it.
I saved something that is so interesting: BROADview by Lisa Selin Davis, Guest Post: “My Body Is a Puberty Blocker” by James Linehan. (Just looked at a few minutes YouTube ‘Affirmation Generation’.)
I read this as well. Lisa has some great stuff. The effects of long term hormone treatment are, as they say in Affirmation Generation, unknown at all. I'm not a fan of yelling "big pharma" ever, but is this about money? Is it about "woke" doctors? Is it about Munchausen by proxy or whatever the current DSM V term is now? I have an acquaintance whose 21 year old daughter, who had a myriad of mental health issues (and possibly physical problems although now I have my doubts as to the veracity of those claims), an extremely bright young adult, broken home, likely some parental guilt coddling, who hooked up with a "psychologist" (quotes used intentionally) who convinced her that her mother abused her, amongst other things, and that her problems would be solved by transitioning. She had a double mastectomy at 21 and now refers to herself as "Jake." Her mother, although being portrayed by the psychologist as the "bad" one in the relationship and the cause of her daughter's problems, is now an over the top transactivist. She protested at the recent 1 million march thing against the march. She's now fully bought into the whole trans movement. I think this happens a lot. I feel so sad for this girl. She won't ever be a man. She will live her life as a medical experiment and be betwixt and between genders. I doubt whether it has made her life any better, other than having a loud cohort of like members who can together rail at the inequities they face.
and I have another sadly former friend whose daughter transitioned at 17, went to Montreal and got all the "work" done. Now she lives in her mother's basement almost a decade on with a group of people like her, no one works; they spend their time railing against everything and everyone and how the world is so unfair. she is my former friend because I suggested that now that her daughter is a "man," as she wanted to be, that she/he should go out and become a productive member of society, doing a "man" job, now that the supposed impediments have been removed. I was, apparently, unsympathetic and delusional. I'm thinking I'm not the delusional one here.... But then I have to wonder how I would feel if one of my daughters did this. I don't know. It's kind of funny, both of my daughters, now 34 and 31, are in non-traditional employment. One is a journeyman (not journeywoman, please, she says) electrician and the other one runs a large-ish construction company and owns a fishing charter business. They have the woman being in a man's world thing down cold. No problems. I guess it's all how you raise your kids, right. I'm of the generation that arguably started all this bullshit, both parents working, parental guilt equals coddling, blah blah, except I didn't do that. No buying them extra stuff because I felt guilty. No running to the school to accuse the teacher of being mean. You stand on your own two feet and be responsible for your actions. Anyway, that's my story lol.
If the conservatives had showed compassion, for example, by stating they'd put up a memorial to the murdered women, and not been confrontational about the landfill (by putting up full page ads about their no dig policy), that would have been a better strategy. That came off as heartless. It only takes a few thousand votes in some cases to turn around an election. You are correct regarding the cost and the other questions that should be explored.
I detest the ritual of land acknowledgements, the hushed reverent tones with which they are pronounced and the ugly message which I hear underneath the pretty words which is, “we overran your people and colonised your land and we use it, feel free to abuse it and you ain’t’ never getting it back!” How is that helpful, the eternal rubbing it in?
Well, that, and the old adage if you say something often enough it becomes the truth. Every time I hear these, especially in untreatied BC, I think of it that way. 138 percent of BC is currently under land claim litigation. How long before some aboriginal industry lawyer uses land claim acknowledgements as a legal basis.
Well, technically the entire country of Canada was "stolen," in the same manner that England was "stolen" from the Celts by the Romans, although the Romans were far more brutal, whereas in Canada trade was the first and ongoing major point of contact for decades, as opposed to open warfare. The "stealing" of land would have to come with a payback for all the advantages Indigenous have in the modern world,. The Indigenous people in Canada willingly traded kekulis and tipis for log cabins, stone tools for axes, hammers, and saws, the travois for wagons and automobiles., bows and arrows for muskets, flint for matches, etc. etc. Even the horse was a European import. The Europeans in Canada also brought an end to Indigenous slavery and intertribal warfare. Currently, many status Indigenous people in Canada have some European or other ethnic mix in their makeup, therefore, those people might have to pay themselves back. For example, some of my relatives are half indigenous, half of European extraction, others with different blood fractions, or Chief John Thunder of Buffalo Point First Nation, who is technically a white man but who is also a "status Indian," based on marriage.
Bravo, Mr. Invictus. And as to your rhetorical question -- no, you're definitely not alone. I hope that comparison gets pointed out (or maybe drilled in?) to some of those who could bring the realization into our educational institutions.
It should not come as a surprise to anyone that we are in the grips of a cult of ignorance where reason, commonsense and critical thought are subjugated to the will of convoluted ideology dictated to by the whim and will of a woke master. It would almost be a relief to see the return of Charlie Manson.
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
A land acknowledgement indeed “serves as a distraction from reality and imposes another belief system that erodes our pride and love for our great nation.” I won’t ever be part of one again. It is compelled speech, false history, and a call for ethnic feudalism with native lords.
"Am I truly the only one who sees the simultaneous deletion of present parents while condemning the deletion of past parents as not just ironic, but outright abhorrent? "
Nice catch. This is, of course, sheer hypocrisy. But expecting fairness and consistency from the woke left is totally futile.
Cheers!
An NDP government has just been elected in Manitoba. The majority of Canadians continue to vote for and to endorse "progressive" policies, including compelled speech. By the time the Federal election happens in 2025, we'll see if very many will have changed their minds.
I thought there was some kind of legislation that prevented someone with a criminal record (which, oddly, has been removed from the database) for running for public office. I guess not. Taxpayers will now face paying somewhere around 250 million or way more to excavate two landfills (see A Chemist In Langley's blog post on the inherent dangers in doing so) when the real question should be where were the families of the deceased women when they were really needed.
Kinew was granted a record suspension – essentially a pardon – for his 2003 and 2004 convictions. And I believe the charge of domestic assault from around the same time was stayed.
This was kind of interesting the other day, though, about FSIN chief Bobby Cameron: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/criminal-record-saskatchewan-first-nation-chief-1.6977859 . The electoral officer at the time of his election was apparently "silenced" -- though several other candidates were disqualified from running in that 2021 election because of criminal records, including one of Cameron's rivals for the chief role.
BTW, Allison, been meaning to let you know that I was able to rent that documentary, No Way Back (formerly Affirmation Generation), and it was indeed good. I shared the 3-day rental with my daughter, who has step-kids in school, but I haven't heard yet whether she was able to watch it.
Glad to hear you watched affirmation generation. I had a hard time watching it. it was heartbreaking.
Hi Alison and Joan
I saved something that is so interesting: BROADview by Lisa Selin Davis, Guest Post: “My Body Is a Puberty Blocker” by James Linehan. (Just looked at a few minutes YouTube ‘Affirmation Generation’.)
I read this as well. Lisa has some great stuff. The effects of long term hormone treatment are, as they say in Affirmation Generation, unknown at all. I'm not a fan of yelling "big pharma" ever, but is this about money? Is it about "woke" doctors? Is it about Munchausen by proxy or whatever the current DSM V term is now? I have an acquaintance whose 21 year old daughter, who had a myriad of mental health issues (and possibly physical problems although now I have my doubts as to the veracity of those claims), an extremely bright young adult, broken home, likely some parental guilt coddling, who hooked up with a "psychologist" (quotes used intentionally) who convinced her that her mother abused her, amongst other things, and that her problems would be solved by transitioning. She had a double mastectomy at 21 and now refers to herself as "Jake." Her mother, although being portrayed by the psychologist as the "bad" one in the relationship and the cause of her daughter's problems, is now an over the top transactivist. She protested at the recent 1 million march thing against the march. She's now fully bought into the whole trans movement. I think this happens a lot. I feel so sad for this girl. She won't ever be a man. She will live her life as a medical experiment and be betwixt and between genders. I doubt whether it has made her life any better, other than having a loud cohort of like members who can together rail at the inequities they face.
and I have another sadly former friend whose daughter transitioned at 17, went to Montreal and got all the "work" done. Now she lives in her mother's basement almost a decade on with a group of people like her, no one works; they spend their time railing against everything and everyone and how the world is so unfair. she is my former friend because I suggested that now that her daughter is a "man," as she wanted to be, that she/he should go out and become a productive member of society, doing a "man" job, now that the supposed impediments have been removed. I was, apparently, unsympathetic and delusional. I'm thinking I'm not the delusional one here.... But then I have to wonder how I would feel if one of my daughters did this. I don't know. It's kind of funny, both of my daughters, now 34 and 31, are in non-traditional employment. One is a journeyman (not journeywoman, please, she says) electrician and the other one runs a large-ish construction company and owns a fishing charter business. They have the woman being in a man's world thing down cold. No problems. I guess it's all how you raise your kids, right. I'm of the generation that arguably started all this bullshit, both parents working, parental guilt equals coddling, blah blah, except I didn't do that. No buying them extra stuff because I felt guilty. No running to the school to accuse the teacher of being mean. You stand on your own two feet and be responsible for your actions. Anyway, that's my story lol.
If the conservatives had showed compassion, for example, by stating they'd put up a memorial to the murdered women, and not been confrontational about the landfill (by putting up full page ads about their no dig policy), that would have been a better strategy. That came off as heartless. It only takes a few thousand votes in some cases to turn around an election. You are correct regarding the cost and the other questions that should be explored.
I dunno, Harper apologized in 2015 or whenever it was for residential schools (needlessly IMO but there you have it) and where did that get us.
I detest the ritual of land acknowledgements, the hushed reverent tones with which they are pronounced and the ugly message which I hear underneath the pretty words which is, “we overran your people and colonised your land and we use it, feel free to abuse it and you ain’t’ never getting it back!” How is that helpful, the eternal rubbing it in?
Well, that, and the old adage if you say something often enough it becomes the truth. Every time I hear these, especially in untreatied BC, I think of it that way. 138 percent of BC is currently under land claim litigation. How long before some aboriginal industry lawyer uses land claim acknowledgements as a legal basis.
https://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/2277970-Acknowledgement-Of-Country
The best way to stop the announcements is to honour our treaty obligations and give the land back where it was stolen.
Well, technically the entire country of Canada was "stolen," in the same manner that England was "stolen" from the Celts by the Romans, although the Romans were far more brutal, whereas in Canada trade was the first and ongoing major point of contact for decades, as opposed to open warfare. The "stealing" of land would have to come with a payback for all the advantages Indigenous have in the modern world,. The Indigenous people in Canada willingly traded kekulis and tipis for log cabins, stone tools for axes, hammers, and saws, the travois for wagons and automobiles., bows and arrows for muskets, flint for matches, etc. etc. Even the horse was a European import. The Europeans in Canada also brought an end to Indigenous slavery and intertribal warfare. Currently, many status Indigenous people in Canada have some European or other ethnic mix in their makeup, therefore, those people might have to pay themselves back. For example, some of my relatives are half indigenous, half of European extraction, others with different blood fractions, or Chief John Thunder of Buffalo Point First Nation, who is technically a white man but who is also a "status Indian," based on marriage.
Bravo, Mr. Invictus. And as to your rhetorical question -- no, you're definitely not alone. I hope that comparison gets pointed out (or maybe drilled in?) to some of those who could bring the realization into our educational institutions.