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Could You Maybe Tone Down Your ‘Whole Self,’ Just A Notch?

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There follows some obligatory rumbling about the “freedom” to have ostentatious hairstyles “without negative repercussions,” before we are informed of black employees’ entitlement to speak and behave in ways that are likely to be “interpreted as violent or aggressive.” No, really. You see, if an employee is surly, or starts cursing and shouting, while invading your personal space and flailing their arms about – such that these things can be “interpreted as violent or aggressive” – this is something that employers must tolerate, and of course defer to. We’re told, for instance, that a dislike of being shouted at or bullied by the emotionally incontinent can only be evidence of “deep, inherent bias and deeply inherent systemic racism.”

On workplace self-expression, or at least self-absorption.

You Can’t Afford My Radical Life

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I talked to a friend of mine who was telling me, “When I set my Tinder radius to 1 mile, just around the university, and I see the bios of the women, a lot of their profiles say things like ‘poly’ or ‘keeping it casual’ – basically, they’re not interested in anything too serious.” He says something like half of them have something like that in their bio. And then he said, “But when I expand the radius on my Tinder to five miles, to include the rest of the city and the more run-down areas beyond the university bubble, half the women are single moms.” And basically, the luxury beliefs of the former group, the educated group, trickled down and ended up having this outsize effect on the people who are less fortunate, who don’t have the [social and] economic capital of the people who can afford that belief.

An interview with Rob Henderson, coiner of the term luxury beliefs.

Liberal Censors Gonna Censor

Basic Dictatorship Forward! Shiny Pony 19 Comments

Trudeau channels his inner Xi.

Michael Geist- Criticism of government’s online harms plans is stunning and helps explain why @pablorodriguez blocked access to submissions for months.

The Rest of the Online Harms Consultation Story: Canadian Heritage Forced to Release Hundreds of Public Submissions Under Access to Information Law

For months, the results of the government’s online harms consultation was shrouded in secrecy as the Canadian Heritage refused to disclose the hundreds of submissions it received. I launched a page that featured publicly available submissions (links reposted below), including 25 submissions from organizations and companies as well as six individual expert submissions.

The criticism of the government’s plans were even more widespread than previously revealed. Indeed, reviewing the submissions uncovers very few supportive comments of the government’s online harms from either organizations or the hundreds of individual submissions.

The most notable submission came from Twitter (its must read submission is here), which warned that the proactive monitoring of content envisioned by the government. 

“sacrifices freedom of expression to the creation of a government run system of surveillance of anyone who uses Twitter. Even the most basic procedural fairness requirements you might expect from a government-run system such as notice or warning are absent from this proposal. The requirement to ‘share’ information at the request of Crown is also deeply troubling.”

“The proposal by the government of Canada to allow the Digital Safety Commissioner to block websites is drastic. People around the world have been blocked from accessing Twitter and other services in a similar manner as the one proposed by Canada by multiple authoritarian governments (China, North Korea, and Iran for example) under the false guise of ‘online safety’ impeding peoples’ rights to access information online.”

When Resentment Is Currency

Children R Our Future Forward! 20 Comments

Dr Inoue has been mentioned here before, as when telling us that teachers should “dispense almost completely with judgements of quality when producing course grades,” on grounds that a student’s ability to convey their thoughts in writing – and to formulate thoughts by writing – is merely a manifestation of “white language supremacy,” an allegedly lethal phenomenon. And when boasting that a simple 495-word press release for his own “racial justice” Writing Centre took “over a year” to write. As if this reflected some profundity of thought, and not a more prosaic explanation.

You see, if you have brown skin, you don’t need to be articulate. It’s the “anti-racist” way.

Freedoms Decreasing

Basic Dictatorship Forward! Shiny Pony 208 Comments

More gas on the fire.

-Freeland just announced the RCMP are going to have free powers to freeze bank accounts without process.

@thevivafrei· Don’t worry, @JustinTrudeau isn’t “calling in the military”. He is just authorizing banks to unilaterally freeze your accounts on the basis of suspicion alone, no court order required, with legal immunity. I hope everyone realizes how much more dangerous this is than the military

Lots more. Add what you find in the comments.

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association emerges from a deep slumber.

Men of Harlech

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If the Ottawa cops decide to swarm the trucker protest, wouldn’t it be fitting that the crowd responds by singing Men of Harlech? The spirit of the song would be a good fit for the occasion. There are several versions, but below are the lyrics from the movie Zulu.

Men of Harlech, stop your dreaming
Can’t you see their spearpoints gleaming
See their warrior pennants streaming
To this battle field

Men of Harlech stand ye steady
It can not be ever said ye
For the battle were not ready
Welshmen never yield

From the hills rebounding
Let this war cry sounding
Summon all at Cambria’s call
The mighty foe surrounding

Men of Harlech on to glory
This will every be your story
Keep these burning words before ye
Welshmen will not yield

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