SDA regular, William McNally, has written an important piece about recent events:
Since the October 7th Simchat Torah pogrom, you might have noticed a lot of antisemitic hate at universities. Do you wonder where the hate comes from? It comes from post-colonial theory, the topic with the lexical word salad including ‘decolonisation’, ‘imperialism’, ‘settler’, ‘cultural appropriation’, ‘resistance’ and ‘indigenisation’. Post-colonial is one of a number of critical social justice (CSJ) theories which have infiltrated and occupy North American universities. You may not know what CSJ is, but you probably know its fruit: DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion), anti-racism, gender theory (what is a woman?) and unconscious bias training.
I want to draw your attention to a recent tactical move by the critical theory folks at a college in my town: the University of Waterloo (UW). This is relevant to the current moment, because it is all of a piece with the pro-Hamas blood lust. Critical theory is what unifies people who chant “from the river to the sea” and those who punch TERFs at Posie Parker events, who advocate men competing in women’s sports, who topple statues, burn churches and who want to defund the police. The event I am about to describe demonstrates the power and malign intent of CSJ activists.
Who is colonizing who?
Well, to be fair to the left – if you don’t have ability, understanding, or logic and your ideology is based on emotions (hate & envy mostly), grandstanding, and shutting out the other guy out then inevitably you will become a bully especially if the power structures spew the same shit you do. It is all they have, they would never win a fair fight so they never have one and it is basically in their nature never to have one.
Bullies gonna bully.
Indeed. And in Canada the bullies are easily exploiting our huge bravery vacuum.
A good article.
Well done. As individuals the only thing we can do is stop giving universities/colleges donations and tell them why.
And we should have started doing that 30 years ago.
Once you figure out how sanctimonious, self-serving and stupid they are, you can never see them as anything else.
My sister and I discussed all of the protests at both Canadian and American universities. We are both university graduates, my sister has her Master’s degree in Adult Education and I have a Bachelor of Interior Design from U of M. Our conclusion is that the students marching in the protests must be in “Easy A” courses (Humanities, Arts, anything which ends in “Studies”). Students in the STEM courses, Computer courses, and Architecture are too busy attending classes and studying in order to not “get behind”.
FYI, when I received my degree in 1975, Interior Design was intense. Classes ran from 8:30 to 1:30 with 3 hours of Studio time in the afternoons (either learning to draft or design). Year 1 was foundation year (weeded out 50% of the class at Christmas) Year 2 was residential and furniture design (again weeded out many students), Year 3 was office (corporate) and restaurant and Year 4 was retail and thesis, in which all 4 areas of design were incorporated. I ended up in hospitality design for 25 years and then ended my career doing timberframe homes at a mountain resort in B.C. It was definitely NOT a Mickey Mouse course.
Before regulations and restrictions went crazy nuts…
I was fortunate to have a log home builder who also specializes in timber frames let my MOJO fly on the sawmill and built some of the most incredible railing systems all still within government restrictions.
I created many jigs that fit on the sawmill to adjust the timber so that I was creating octagonal posts and siding that was knife to being logs again.
Too many restrictions came on line and wiped out the business totally as we’re using tools different from it’s safety design which became fines as even more regulations of personal safety came out too.
>Interior Design was intense. Classes ran from 8:30 to 1:30 with 3 hours of Studio time in the afternoons
That’s your definition of “intense”? That was the average B.Sc program when I was an undergrad.
Back when U(W) was a real school, an engineering degree started at a 40 hour class week in 1A and rapidly went north from there. If you weren’t putting in 60+ hours total work – class plus lab and assignments – by 2A you were going to flunk out.
Perhaps there’s something I’m missing, but I’m hard pressed to see how anything about interior design requires a four year post-secondary degree.
The left have co-opted the vernacular of the Canadian natives, however Islam came 2500 years after the Jewish faith thus the Muslim Arabs are the colonizers, they are the ones attempting a Jewish genocide and celebrate another Holocaust. Do not let them spread their colonizing lies- which they hide behind to play at being a hateful Anti-Semite.
Rose
Best you read up on both those religions. Judaism treats women in a very similar manner to the Islamists.
And both have many similar edicts. Neither are allowed to loan money to make money.
One has Kosher, the other Halal, damn near the same thing with different names.
Both wear funny head gear.
Many of the first moques were run by Rabbis.
Both are also Emotional constructs, as is Christianity
and the list goes on
And yes I am against religion, that is ALL religions, plus any collectives that resemble and function like a religion, including stupid extreme atheism !
Another “studies” graduate I presume? Compare the status of women in Israel with those in Saudi Arabia and tell me again how the two are the same, please. Just eagerly awaiting that explanation.
Do they have similar edicts about cake? Because you can’t have your cake and edict too!
For some reason my comment disappeared. Seemed harmless to me. I said, simply put, it’s like they want everyone to walk on their hands from now on.
“Decolonization”, and all of the related language of the left means only one thing: ethnic cleansing. This has been the case since Mugabe used the phrase in Zimbabwe back in the 80’s, and Idi Amin before him in Uganda.
Both of these pioneering decolonizers were socialists and darlings of the left.