Jonathan Kay @jonkay — An Ontario school board is creating a database of forbidden books for removal from school libraries. No word yet on how they will be disposed of/incinerated
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Behold: cancelled for the crime of “non-indigenous author telling indigenous stories”.
Will the Bible be on that list? Perhaps they can make it a community event, and have a book burning in front of the board offices.
It was, in a way, in one Alberta school district when Red Rachel was in charge. Certain verses concerning homosexuality were found to be objectionable and one religious school was threatened with government action as a result.
Farley Mowat is on the list. Heh, I can’t wait for the traditional liberals reaction to the woke generation.
I’m surprised Fahrenheit 451 isn’t on the list.
Probably because it already “went up in smoke” so to speak, decades ago.
Amazing, Farley Mowat not woke enough. The Left really does eat its own.
No kidding, Hardly Knowit, the left eats it’s own.
LOL, Left wing “Journalist” Michael Harris is currently writing a book about Farley Mowat.
In his book about hating Harper (Party of One), Harris quoted Mowat as saying: “Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada,”
I noticed the Quebec Government on that author list.
“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards” – Mark Twain
What amazes me is how people that do this always somehow end up in positions of power.
It’s because people have been lulled to sleep with propaganda. The trap was set a long time ago.
Heil Globohomo! Throw another book on the funeral pyre, good citizen!
Mowatt was a big Green Party supporter and close pals with Elizabeth May and let’s not forget his assessment of Stephen Harper back in the day characterizing him as “…probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.” I’m sure that quip got him the OC medal.
Wonder what he’d say now?
Yup, banning books is bad but when SJW brownshirts turn on Liberals I just sit back.
Dr.Seuss is my line in the sand.
Mowat was also a big liar (google Farley Mowat lied). His books may well be entertaining “good reads” but they are fiction which he sold as non-fiction. Still his books shouldn’t be banned.
The idiots running the Ryerson Review of Journalism have removed Ryerson from the name because it’s “problematic.” Cancel culture is well underway. Good luck stopping it now.
And nobody will lift a finger to oppose this. Not that I think anything can be done. All of our education systems are run by complete idiots and those capable of thought do not dare rock the boat. I wish I could find the link, but several years ago a study was done showing that the most incompetent and least intelligent of all university students went into the field of education.
Those that can, do.
Those that can’t, teach.
“Clifford’s Halloween” (No. 25 on list)
It has become clear that these educators truly have no interest in educating children. How do we get rid of them?
Who knew!? Big RED dogs are offensive. Ohhhhh I get it now … it’s like the Washington Redskins thing.
Remove the teachers unions and provide families with publicly funded education accounts. Privatize all the schools and then parents can decide where they send their kids. Teachers will be rewarded on merit, not seniority. set up parent/teacher boards to determine curriculum. Cut provincial education departments by at least 75%.
The same for health care, publicly funded health care accounts where patients go to private hospitals. It eliminates the bureaucratic health authorities and annual block funding. Under the current system every patient who walks into a hospital is a liability. Under health accounts every patient becomes as asset. Heath costs would drop and outcomes would go up.
The only drawbacks to these is mega-corps buying up all the schools and hospitals. Avoidable.
Grey Owl?? Whoever came up with this list is purely and simply one of the biggest assholes in Canadian history. I think Indian history is so personal that it should never be mentioned again or studied in any way by white people.
Grey Owl self identified as Indian. Isn’t that enough in today’s woke environment?
I knew Bob Surtees. We went to school together. He was a good man. Not a bigot. These book burners are evil. Kill them soon or they will kill us.
It is wrong to cancel past writings simply because they would be considered objectionable in today’s totally fucked-up world. However, is it not interesting and important to have a view of how people thought and wrote during their time in history?
We might actually learn something about where we came and perhaps consider where the hell we are going.
Mr. Kay should name the school board, in order to call them out.
Perhaps I missed it somewhere, but I find the absence of naming the school board strange and that the information can not be easily verified. Experience has taught me to be distrustful of journalists–particularly when basic facts are omitted. Maybe there is something to this. Maybe not. All I can take away from it at the moment is that there is a claim of this behaviour and a list implied to be from an unknown school board in Ontario.
Is it believable? Sadly, yes. That is, it does not conflict with my low expectations of such bureaucrats and politicians. However, is it true? There is insufficient evidence for me to decide.
Bet there is more than 50.
I remember reading Owls in the Family as a kid, and honestly don’t remember anything about Indians in there.
So, did I do it right?
A school board?
Would that be a public school board?
As opposed to say a privately run school?
That aside, if appropriation is such a bad thing when do cars and wood frame structures get removed from all reserves?
Joseph – also horses; they were appropriated from the Spanish.
Give little people a little power and they will do horrific things. You don’t even have to order them to do it — the will do it on their own. Librarians are likely the absolute worst for this sort of thing.
Always starts with books in fires. Always ends with people in ovens.
If you are going to burn books, start with Canadian books written by women named Margret Atwood.
And be sure to stay up wind of that manure pyre.
The natives where I worked years ago called him Hardly Knowit always that that fit old Farley perfect
Can we get Margaret Atwood on there ASAP! I gotta say, Enjoy the Decline was probably the best book ever written.
The biggest lefties are the biggest tyrants and bigots. Put a lefty in charge of picking up litter and they’ll be in blackface, burning books and throwing people in re-education camps inside of a week.
What amazingly interesting times we live in. Many scholarly books will be written in the future about the fall of western civilization. Im sure they’ll all be in awe of how we let such a gift slip through our fingers.
But they’re probably replacing those books with LGBQTranny books with pictures and weblinks as well as soon to be famous titles such as, How To Blackmail A Whiteman and Make Him Feel Shame, We Own Everything Especially Railroads, Whitey Raped An Indian Princess While His Negro Slave Watched, Whitey No Nuffin, Settlers Are Targets, White Bitches and the BBC and finally, Reparations Forever.
improper indigenous costume . what no black nike baseball hat?
Everyone talks about 1984 and Brave New World but we are actually much close to living Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury was prophetic.
If the racial threshold for acceptable exclusivity of Indian authors to write stories about Indians is the same as legal status then it only takes 1/16 Indian racial purity to qualify. Aside from the blanket criticism of chemical determinism (racism) against the whole notion of “Canadian Indians”, would not such an author also be guilty of 15/16 proportional cultural appropriation. I presume logic is never allowed in today’s post modern nihilism discussions in the halls of academia.
Socialist institutions yielding cultural Marxist outcomes – who would have thought it possible!
Why bother banning books, when it seems that no one reads anymore.
Given the topic, I’m going to take the liberty of mentioning that Jack Whyte died on February 22, here in Kelowna, where he had lived since 1996.
Mr. Whyte hailed from Scotland but lived in Canada since the 1960s.
I consider him to be a Canadian writer, since this is where he took up his pen and wrote excellent historical fiction.
His books have sold in the many millions in twenty languages, and I would argue that his books have sold more than any other Canadian writer, including Atwood.
In fact, you can’t find numbers for Atwood. I think her sales would map to the number of women who listen to CBC.
Anyway, here is to the great Jack Whyte. May he Rest In Peace.
Cultural appropriation, means turning in the Skidoo’s and cancelling Billions in handouts. Nothing like going back to the old ways.
Indeed… and when can we sue them for the social and medical costs of tobacco?
I’m just thankful these idiots aren’t literate enough to have banned … “Little House ON the Prairie”. Seems they are prepositionally challenged.
How soon before Ethel the Aardvark gets banned?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCM2nEBE0RY
Librarians are the biggest hypocrites and the biggest supporters of censorship and book-burning you will find.
This after the lip service of “free expression”.
Remove public funding and then let’s see where they’re at then.
What about Rarnaby Budge?
That would be Barnaby Rudge, dude.
I know my Nickerby Dickens.
Any typos there, Boz?
But do you know your Monty Python?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ97ucxdGm0
“Raised on South Park and now you are offended”?
Magnificent summation of Do-Goods R Us.
Of course,given the “education” these board members are overseeing,why would they ban books?
None of their “Graduates” can read well enough to comprehend the content objected to.