What the teachers strike is really about
This Saskatchewan teachers strike is about something no one wants to say openly.
Passing kids who should have failed, mainstreaming everyone, overcrowding and not enough ESL are all part of “classroom complexity.” But we’ve had ample warning this was going to happen, from a guy I’ve known for 30 years. He wrote a book about this in 2010.
Believe it or not, I used to write opinion columns for 28 years on everything under the sun before launching Pipeline Online. And this teachers strike in Saskatchewan got under my skin enough that I had to write about it.
Grave Error
At the Western Standard;
Having lived at two residential schools when he was a university student in the mid-sixties, Clifton is Canada’s senior statesman about indigenous affairs.
He and Professor Rouillard take us from ground-zero at KIRS two and a half years ago, when the suggestion of burials had some mandarins, journalists and pundits convinced that it was a mass grave containing pupils from the school.
This revelation initiated a spiral of false claims which shook the world and caused moral panic among Canadians the likes of which has not been seen since the last world war.
And yet there is no evidence to substantiate the allegations that otherwise benign people, priests, nuns, teachers and staff at residential schools across Canada had a hand in malfeasance.
In fact, in every chapter, Grave Error puts the boots to false allegations. The handful of exhumations that have taken place — mind you, not at KIRS — have given up not so much as a missing shoelace.
In The Mail
Another offering from our own SDA regular and supporter, Bill Greenwood;
On a cool September night, six men go into an Iowa pool hall. Only one comes out, and becomes the center of an enduring mystery.
Just in time for Christmas, this and Bill’s other titles available at Amazon.
Don’t Point Out My Whoppers, She Said
Having dismissed as tiresome the entire breadth and history of “white men ideas” – from Ptolemy to Babbage, Tesla to Solzhenitsyn, Turing to Shakespeare – these “white dudes” and their “so-called ‘knowledge’” – Ms Leung then makes clear the kinds of feedback she is willing to entertain:
“I still have some thinking to do around this topic, but curious to hear what others think. I’m less interested in hearing that you don’t buy it, so don’t bother with those types of comments.”
On an attempt to perfect humanity; on replacing natural history with aboriginal woo; on lesbianism by decree; and the history of ideas, as seen through the welding goggles of wokeness.
The Deniers
A suggestion if you’re early Christmas shopping for the teenager or member of parliament in the family. Judith Curry has a new book out: Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking Our Response
“So these are a bit Brothers Grimm-like, I suppose”
Jordan Peterson has a new book of poetry out. (Most decidedly not for children).
Tongue-Bath Detected
You see, our aspiring role model has produced a book combining hardcore self-involvement with dysmorphic cartoon pornography, with the results being made available to schoolchildren, including 11-year-olds. As one might imagine, there have been some, shall we say, reservations regarding whether a book of this kind should be circulated among children without their parents’ knowledge or consent. Readers may recall scenes in which parents attempted to read aloud passages from book among fellow adults at school board meetings, typically resulting in reprimands, the shutting off of microphones, and threats of physical removal. Apparently, “vagina slime,” fellatio and “strap-on hotness” are inappropriate topics for adult discussion, even as an attempt to specify a problem, but totally fine for kids. Who apparently need to know about the joys of masturbating while driving.
When TIME magazine interviews Maia Kobabe, author of the book Gender Queer.
In The Mail
A new novel by a long time supporter of this blog, Bill Greenwood.
Graciela Ruiz is a woman on the run. When organized crime killed her husband, she took the money and headed for the only place she knew where she would be safe.
Lonnie Duchesne is a killer for the Mob. He’s a hunter. He’s smart. And he’s relentless.
Sabrina Sanchez became a national hero in a high country pasture, and almost lost her life in the process. The aftermath set her on the path to bringing wholeness to her self. She’s found the love of her life. She’s come to know that the place she now calls home is the place that holds her heart. She wants only one thing- the freedom to do her job as a Sheriff’s deputy, looking out for the people of the community that saved her.
The snow comes early to the high country of western Colorado. When destinies collide in the place they call The Uncompaghre, that’s when you find out that some things only hurt when your heart beats.
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In The Mail
‘Fallen Icon: Sir David Attenborough and the Walrus Deception’, published by Canadian zoologist Dr. Susan Crockford (paperback/ebook), explains how Attenborough, with the help of the World Wildlife Fund and Netflix, used the horrific images of walrus falling off a high cliff to their deaths to jump-start a 3 year campaign against global warming. His messages laden with ‘climate emergency’ rhetoric finally became a WEF-like rant against capitalism.’
Be subversive. Send a copy to someone’s grandkids.
Canada Amazon link: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0991796691
US Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QMJHJ8B
Counter Wokecraft
Robert asks a common question. Peterson gives an accurate answer. He talks for a couple of minutes about it in his recent interview with Dave Rubin .
The follow up question is what to do about it?
Charles Pincourt, leaning heavily on the work of James Lindsay, has come up with a sort of field guide on what exactly is going on, the strategies that are being used, and more importantly how to block and counter them when they come up. If you’re in some sort of organization or group that’s dealing with this stuff be it a church, business, school, etc. hopefully it will be of some help.
Alternate link to podcast
Tigers Are Sexist Pigs
If your little boy read this book, he will probably go on a raping rampage. Isn’t it wonderful that we have social justice warriors looking out for our kids. Justin would never let his kids read books like this.
In The Mail
With an intro by rascally Ontario MPP Randy Hillier. It’s $40 + $15 s/h. You can order directly from the author by email.
It’s Not The Flu Vaccine
Alex Bernson has a new covid book out focusing on vaccines.
He’s also scheduled to be on Tucker Carlson tonight.
Diversity and Exclusion
Excerpt from Lindsay Shepard’s new book in today’s National Post.
Christie Blatchford and I exchanged some initial emails and had a couple of brief phone calls so she could confirm the details of the incident, and ensure she got the facts straight. After I sent her the secretly-recorded audio, she wrote back to me, “I just listened. Jesus H. Christ, what a pompous pair of gits,” and “You do realize these people are INSANE?”
They Mostly Come At Night. Mostly…
Just An Idea
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(language advisory) You can order “UNMASKED” here.
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In The Mail
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A new offering by loyal SDA supporter Bill Greenwood.
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In The Mail
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How Not to Become a Millennial: Learning from America’s Largest Sociological Disaster Never before in the history of the world has more time, effort, and resources been invested into a single generation than the Millennials. Be it incredibly expensive college degrees, perfectly privileged diets, life-coping drugs, uncountable therapist visits, even bending reality so that everybody was impossibly a winner, no expense was spared for the most pampered generation in human history. |
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In The Mail
A new novel by my favourite #NewRules columnist Kurt Schlichter.
Available in paperback and ebook. Check it out. |
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