The Recycled Ideas of a Mass Murderer

Canada and Critical Race Theory

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This post is written by an anonymous Canadian teacher.

The Recycled Ideas of a Mass Murderer

Only white people can be racist. So holds Critical Race Theory, and so agrees the Trudeau government. As outlined by Tristan Hopper, course materials issued by Canada’s Global Affairs’ training manual makes  this  absurd claim as if fact. Not surprising from a movement which views objective truth as “white supremacist” and science as in need of “decolonization”. Though not surprising, such views are no less toxic and dangerous. Such people hold that discriminatory hiring policies against whites are not only justifiable- to disagree with them is an act of racism. One familiar with history might opine uncomfortably what other race-based acts of marginalization might also be justifiable in the minds of people thus polluted.

Mao’s China

“The goal for now, he told his inner circle at the beginning of 1960, was to ‘propagate Mao Tse-tung Thought’ around the world. “ (Chang and Halliday, p.451) This, arguably ongoing, propaganda campaign argued that the Communist rulers of China were to be the champions of the races oppressed by the capitalists of Western Nations.  Official propaganda disseminated the bizarre idea that “only Westerners could indulge in racism.” And this notion found fertile root  in children too inexperienced and brainwashed to know differently. Soon a campaign of state sponsored terror would be unleashed by Mao with millions of Red Guards doing “the work” of denunciation and renaming.  Why did those old enough to know better go along with it? Mao used starvation and terror.  A better question is “why do we go along with it?”

In about the same time Mao was delivering this speech, Pierre Trudeau was visiting China. In the same year that over 20 million Chinese starved to death, Trudeau rejected reports of famine.  (Chang and Halliday, p.452) Now, over 60 years later, a second Trudeau willingly imposes the ideas of one of history’s greatest mass murders onto the Canadian civil service and institutions of education eagerly comply. Over half a century ago, it was perhaps understandable that the first Trudeau was duped by a tyrannical government willing to hide the deaths of over 40 million of its citizens from the world. But there can be no justifying such racist and divisive policies today.

Under Mao, efforts had been made to entice African students to study in China. With the greater freedom of Deng Xiaoping overt racism reared its ugly head. “In 1988-89 thousands of Chinese students, fueled by a variety of racist rumours, set about assaulting and destroying the dormitories of African students in Nanjing, Beinjing, Shanghai and Taianjin, shouting ‘kill the black devils.” (Dikotter, p. 134”). Presumably, according to Maoist thought and Critical Race ‘scholarship’ today, this was not a racist incident since only whites can be racist.

Critical Race Theory is exactly what you would wish for your enemy. It fosters, extends and rewards resentment and victimhood. It discourages hard work and takes aim at the idea that it is rewarded. Instead it invites hopelessness, division, resentment and conflict. It drives the wedge ever deeper between citizens of Western democracies based on race, religion and creed. It takes aim at the history of: Great Britain, Canada and The United States just as Mao’s Red Guards took aim at thousands of grave sites, monuments and artistic works which were the cultural legacy of China.  

The notion that only Western nations engaged in war, slavery or conquest is by now an obvious lie for anyone over 18. The fact that Critical Race Theory has become so pervasive in Canada is more a product of our complacency and lack of historical knowledge than it is due to any saliency in this rebrand of Marxism.  Educational institutions are now incubators for a theory which holds Western democracy to be illegitimate and “systemically racist”. The fact that millions of capable immigrants each year choose Western democracies as their new home for greater freedom, prosperity and security does not deter Critical theorists who see only skin colour and perpetual conflict.

Who Benefits?

Aside from resentful academics, and those who make a living at the trough of “Critical Consciousness”, who is helped from such division? Its impact on education has been reduced expectations of  achievement, timelines, work-ethic and behavior.  At a time in which the Communist Party of China is prioritizing STEM, we in the West are indulging in “decolonization” of the scientific method-the very means through which discovery and truth is meant to be found without bias.

A divided enemy is a weakened enemy.

Canada is the most successfully multicultural nation on earth. Its standard of living and democratic freedom have made it the destination of millions. Somehow without a strong ethos of nationalism we have been successful in peacefully binding together diverse peoples. What ties us together is that we are Canadian. Proud of our country and its freedom. But Critical Race Theorists have sought to change this.

Symbols Matter:

To this day, the 2010 Olympic Men’s final is the most watched television even in Canadian history. Hockey is more than a game to Canadians- it is a source of national pride. Though overly exuberant Don Cherry was this country’s most unapologetically proud Canadian.  Until on Nov. 9th, 2018 while expressing dismay at the number of people in the GTA not wearing a poppy for Remembrance Day, Cherry chose his words poorly when he said, “You people….that come here… you love our way of life. You love our milk and honey. At least you could pay a few bucks for poppy…” It was an indelicate choice of words, but was Cherry being accurate when he suggested that new Canadians wear a poppy in smaller numbers in the GTA?

A comparison might be useful at this point. Trudeau the younger, rather than being an outspokenly  proud Canadian, has referred to Canada as guilty of “and ongoing genocide”, “the world’s first post-national state” and “systemically racist”. Trudeau the younger, or perhaps Trudeau “the Useful”, depending on who you ask has admitted to wearing blackface so many times he’s not sure how many. On Dec. 28th, 2021 referred to the unvaccinated with these words: “They don’t believe in science/progress and very often misogynistic and racist. It’s a very small group of people, but that doesn’t shy away from the fact they take up some space.” Despite multiple acts of racism, his demonization of those unvaccinated and his anti-Canadian sentiments, enough voters have continued to support him. Perhaps, reports of Chinese election tampering in his favor helped.  

The Flag

The quintessential symbol of nationhood is a country’s flag.  In May of 2021, reports of the “mass graves” of residential school victims circulated widely in Canada’s Trudeau subsidized media without question. That same month Trudeau ordered that our flag be flown at half mast on all government buildings until such time as Indigenous communities in consultation with the Trudeau government believe they should be restored. No such thing has transpired before in world history. Not even in the aftermath of genocides by Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia or Maoist China. For nearly six months, Canadians were led to believe reports of mass graves which turned out to be completely unfounded. Mass graves are not unmarked graves, and to this day no children’s bodies have actually been discovered. 

Critical Race Theorists Rejoice

Critical Race Theorists were getting exactly what they wanted.  They view Canada as illegitimate and colonialist. The product of “stolen land” and “genocide”.  To have the majority of Canadians ashamed and demoralized is exactly what they hoped for. And their attack extended to not just the symbols of Canada but also to its primary creator Sir John A. Macdonald.  Statues in Montreal and Hamilton were torn down of our first Prime Minister while public schools performed perfunctory public consultations before striking Macdonald’s name from public buildings. 

Theirs is a Poisoned Worldview:

Critical Theorists view racial conflict as a permanent and defining characteristic of our country. They don’t see progress;  they see a power struggle based on immutable skin colour and they want your children to view our country the same poisoned way they do.  They take aim at: history, science, objective truth, progress, multivariate analysis and anything else which makes us into a successful nation. Who would defend a country they are ashamed of? Who would work hard to innovate or excel when merit is a myth? And lastly, who benefits from Western societies being riven by the well-funded “scholars” of Critical Theory?

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Thanks for reading. For more from this author read Decolonize: But only Sometimes