Despite the competing feats of Olympic-level hyperbole, two formal investigations by the university uncovered no evidence of racism or indeed violence, whether colonial or of some other kind. However, the social work department – this bastion of “equity,” “diversity,” and “decolonisation” – was described in one of the reports as an intimidating and hostile workplace, with one witness favouring the phrase, “cliquey, scary, and tense.”
Don’t care. Long finger nails and eyelashes are not clear signs of being downtrodden or in any way mistreated. Especially with a $200k salary.
Let them eat bugs.
It’s WLU. That place is crap. That anyone still thinks it’s about education is a fool.
All of them are now crap. Some just achieved crappiness earlier than others.
McGill, U. of T., RMC, and Queens are infested with wokeism to no lesser degree.
Though the military historically has been the last institution to care about political correctness, woke or other mission irrelevant social engineering, we were the first experiments of totalitarian social engineering.
When Chretien in Martin’s 1994 budget closed RRMC, the “fact sheet” released as justification used dated statistics aka damned lies, not those staff officers had painstakingly prepared, under the direction of the Commandant who was threatened with firing if he made any public noise or tried to inform the public.
Now this woke warmongering parasitic puke (wokeism is a tax too, and a most insidious one) is deciding on the future, or not, and the pedagogical pursuits of the “milcols,” with their rigorous regime of STEM courses for all students, all whether they be engineers or English majors, taking differential calculus, statistics, chemistry, physics and computer science, and having to pass them all or repeat the year.
Our only solace is the engineers and applied science types were comparatively illiterate so just an inept at History and English as we were with STEM courses, not counting the “Squids” of course.
They want to take it all away from us, to turn civil society into bland off white, fascists of diversity.
These useful idiots will be the death of us all; and for the first time in my 67 years, I believe that literally.
This is assuredly T R U E.
Although I guessing a ranking of the badness might be possible.
David:
That is a bona fide masterpiece. I laughed out loud several times. It has to be one of your very best.
Notice how these self-important “leaders” (cough, gag) always mess up royally, leaving whatever they “led” (snivel, snort) in a shambles, but then so often fall upwards, being given new territory to snafu as proufoundly as their last assignment. So now she is in charge of our military colleges and their curricula.
That has to work out well!
South Africa, you say?
RNrn
“but then so often fall upwards”
Gerald butts was/is one huge one of those. Government is the new goldmine.
I demand that Islam – the fundamentalist variety – be given the DEI chair at the first opportunity.
The obvious solution is to fire the whole lot, tear the building down, salt the earth below, and maybe look at reconstituting it in a few hundred years.
IOW, a living or active landfill. Like Detroit and such landmarks as that.
was on a lighting project at laurier had to be around 97.
the library enhanced the lighting on several floors.
what a fiasco.
instead of hanging say square tubing off the cieling and then hanging the assembled from parts fluorscent lits from thos to give ‘backbone’ the contactor cut multiple dozens short posts and planted them on the UNEVEN tops of the shelves.
of course the thin sheet metal would flex and bend under their own weight.
anyways a truly amateurish sight. the fixtures were assembled overhead with all the parts raining down on you instead of on a bench or even back at the shop in burlington. and then just put in place.
so of course its taking longer and the big push is on.
l quit at 4 oclock in the morning when l stumbled on wire nuts that just fell off the wires.
then proceeded to hack into one of their index computers (still DOS based) and made it come up with a message to the effect the project was a disaster waiting to happen and be sure not to touch the metal shelves when the lights were on.
then when l got up the next day called the physical plant detailing my concerns and then to top if off l called the student newspaper gave them a juicy story.
my cred based o the fact l had 2 bachelor degrees, fully sympathetic with the people there, and had been an electrician’s assistant some 5 years prior.
l also resented the fact the boss would drive himself safely belted in his SUV and let the crew bounce around unsecured jammed into the back of the van
‘Estate Electric’ l lasted less than 3 months with them. theyre long gone.
one job foreman was so disgusted one night we’re all waiting to rendezvous to the job and he’s a no-show.
great
12 midnight wide awake for nothing.
BEYOND satire but what does one expect from Laurier?* You reap what you sow. More of this please. And faster.
*Inspired by Canada changing its flag in 1965 so as not offend the Frenchies – what can be seen now as one of the first acts of political correctness, and undertaken by meek, compliant Anglos seeking to appease the sabre-rattling group of the day (and how did that work out?) – Waterloo Lutheran University changed its name to Wilfrid Laurier University in 1973 as part of that grand, aspirational Expo 67/Pierre Trudeau-inspired “reinvention” of Canada.
God, this is a ridiculous little second-rate country full ridiculous little second-rate (and third-rate) people!!!
SDA readers excluded, of course.
I think I may have read it here…
“The real problem is that most Canadians are ridiculous, self-righteous, small-souled, resentment-addled little people.”
Nicely put (LOL) however, it’s “ressentiment” not “resentment”, the former is a reference Nietzsche, particularly his work “the Genealogy of Morals” which is actually a good study of a certain type of Canadian. To quote Wikipedia:
“ressentiment is a sense of hostility directed toward an object that one identifies as the cause of one’s frustration, that is, an assignment of blame for one’s frustration. The sense of weakness or inferiority complex and perhaps even jealousy in the face of the “cause” generates a rejecting/justifying value system, or morality, which attacks or denies the perceived source of one’s frustration. This value system is then used as a means of justifying one’s own weaknesses by identifying the source of envy as objectively inferior, serving as a defense mechanism that prevents the resentful individual from addressing and overcoming their insecurities and flaws. The ego creates an enemy to insulate themselves from culpability.”
In the context of what YouTuber J.J. McCullough (link below) calls “Canada’s weird, left-wing, anti-American nationalism”, the above-mentioned “cause” of Canadian ressentiment – and which causes many of them to utter, do and believe MANY ridiculous things – is Big Bad Amerikkka. Canadians really need to grow up and get over this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yKzq3ueGr8
A lefty neighbour went to work for the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal about 20 years ago and quickly left because she complained the blind, the deaf, the physically disabled, and each of the individual race identities (of which she was one being South American but was “disgusted” because she was considered as “white”) each hated and went after the other groups within the OHRT wanting only to benefit their own group at the expense of the others.
Laurier,
Not surprised this tempest in a teapot continuing in the spirit of the Lindsay Shepherd witch burning session. Am surprised that they still keep the name Wilfred Laurier being as how he was such an important male white figure in our Canadian history.
Couldn’t they at least get a reality TV show out of this — you know, along the lines of “My Ugly, Overweight, Self-Righteous, Progressive, Emotional Train Wreck of a Life”? I’ve got the Orville Redenbacker ready to go.
Looks like the Indians are meeting their match now.
Can’t wait for more, bring out the popcorn and beer!!!
The Hogarth Affair stems from the administration’s decision to double down on woke after the Lindsay Shepherd Affair instead of removing the cancer and supporting free speech.
They hired another race grifter as VP Diversity, Barrington Walker, after summer of Floyd and he left for a better gig at McMaster after less than 3 years.
The administration and Board of Governors should be forced to resign.
The Faculty of Social work is the most toxic source of woke at the university, followed by education and communication studies.
All three should be disbanded if there is any hope of saving the university.
Me? I don’t hold to any hope. The place is lost. And, as James notes above, the same is true of every university in Canada.
Education is dead in Canada. There is only indoctrination.
David’s piece was funny, but this event was a microcosm of the cultural upheaval which is inevitably in our future. Once whites are no longer the largest minority, and you have successfully pulled down all traces of “whiteness and colonialism”, who gets to replace it? Which culture will be the new culture? People like the Dean in this story know that multiculturalism is bullsh*t: they want to win.
Death by a thousand micro-invalidations.
LOL.
Leave them all be.
It’ll eventually turn into a Lord of the Flies death camp.