What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
DEI: How Canada’s professional colleges are weakening our medical, legal, and physical infrastructure
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
How do you ask a deplorable to be the last man to DEI for inclusion? White recruitment collapses in the US army, leading to the smallest military force in 80 years
Visit The Washington Monument While You Still Can
Democrat donations get results.
The contract for removing the Reconciliation Memorial was awarded to @MarstelDay, a Fredericksburg-based company
It’s a $770,372 contract. Now, can anybody find out who they’re subcontracting the actual work to?
So much for reconciliation. Or victory, for that matter. In miserable Olde England, history is written by the losers;
Admiral Horatio Nelson is one of the greatest heroes of British history. With the possible exception of Wellington, no one contributed more to winning the Napoleonic Wars. Nelson’s death at Trafalgar, his greatest victory, holds a place in British history analogous to that of Lincoln at the end of the Civil War.
But in recent years, Nelson has come under attack, and activists have urged that statues of him be destroyed – including the iconic one at the top of Nelson’s Column at Trafalgar Square. Why? The usual reason: he is alleged to have been pro-slavery.[…]
The “racist” smear against Nelson lives on, despite being supported by no evidence, because certain people want to perpetrate it. Such charges are not made out of any genuine concern for the long-gone victims of slavery through the millennia, but rather to discredit the history of selected countries–i.e., the United States and Great Britain, but not China or Brazil. The project is a purely political one.
Well, yes.
Leaked Tape: Race Quotas At IBM
CEO of IBM @ArvindKrishnaadmits to using coercion to fire people and take away their bonuses unless they discriminate in the hiring process […] After pulling ads from X for ‘racism,’ IBM chief Arvind Krishna says he will fire, demote or strip bonuses from execs who don’t hire enough blacks, Hispanics — or hire too many Asians
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
The “Appeal to the Noble Savage” Fallacy
The “Appeal to Authority” fallacy holds that experts are infallible: if a credible source believes something, well then, that thing must be true!2 The fallacy is not only that even truly knowledgeable people can be wrong, but also that many so-called authorities are not, in the end, all that knowledgeable.
If that’s the “Appeal to Authority” fallacy, let’s call this new thing the “Appeal to the Noble Savage” fallacy. It holds indigenous people to be the most worthy among all peoples, and incapable of engaging in human acts of cruelty. It holds them on a pedestal. The Appeal to the Noble Savage fallacy imagines indigenous people to be, well, not exactly human.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
Whatsisname’s Britain – Bumped For More Chewy Diversity Goodness!
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and Bobbies bar native born British “right wing thugs” from reaching the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day.
Or, they attempted to.
Tense scenes in central London as police clash with people trying to get near the Cenotaph war memorial for Remembrance Day/Veterans Day. They eventually get through and it becomes calm.
Five weeks of pro-Hamas protest is just healthy diversity.
DIVERSITY UPDATE: Pro-Palestine mob deface WWI memorial and scale buildings as police lose control
A pro-Palestine mob have defaced a World War 1 memorial and scaled buildings in Central London as police lose control of the march.
Footage and photos from the scene show a World War 1 memorial covered in signs with a “Free Palestine” placard attached to the statue of the soldier.
Other memorials were targeted too. Taking to X, GB News contributor Darren Grimes said: “Pro-Palestine yobs drape our war memorials in foreign flags, desecrating the Machine Gun Corps Memorial at Wellington Arch. Where are the police?”
Close by two pro-Palestine protesters scaled a building only to be met by security on the level they decided to leave at.
Their actions come as police lose control of the protest which has seen over 100,000 people march through Central London on Armistice Day.
@RaheemKassam– Muslims are terrorising the streets of central London tonight. No one is stopping them. Britain is on the cusp of recognising the importance of America’s Second Amendment.
I, Pocohontas
Canadians are so racist people pretend to be Indians.
A Canadian news documentary airing at the end of the week focuses on the Native identity claims of one of the most celebrated performers in entertainment history.
Titled “Making an Icon,” the description for the upcoming episode of The Fifth Estate on CBC News does not mention the name of the subject. But multiple Native people who took part in the documentary process told Indianz.Com that it’s about Buffy Sainte-Marie, whose decades-long career in music, television and education rests on her claim of being Cree from the Piapot Cree Nation, one of the First Nations in the province of Saskatchewan.
“An icon’s claims to Indigenous ancestry are being called into question by family members and an investigation that included genealogical documentation, historical research and personal accounts,” the description for the October 27 episode reads.
The documentary comes at a defining time for a performer whose life has been filled with groundbreaking moments. On August 3, Sainte-Marie, who turned 82 earlier this year, surprised her followers by declaring her “retirement from live performance. The announcement cited “travel-induced health concerns and performance-inhibiting physical challenges” facing the aging musician. […]
But the Native people who participated in CBC’s documentary process believe Sainte-Marie’s decision to step away from the spotlight is directly connected to the questions about her First Nations identity. According to the sources, work on the hour-long episode began more than a year ago and it grew to include interviews with individuals in the United States, where the performer was raised following claims to have been born in Canada and adopted out of Piapot.
Due to the lengthy production time associated with the CBC project, Sainte-Marie would have been well aware of the nature of the documentary — especially of its potential to unravel a career that began in the 1960s, the people said. The award-winning singer and songwriter has largely remained silent about her retirement decision, with no significant interviews appearing in mainstream media since her announcement more than two months ago.
The Children Are Our Future
Welcome to the classroom of Kelsey Middagh – “Grade 4 teacher at Ruth M. Buck #relationshipsfirst #socialjusticeadvocate she/her”
Premier Moe, we’re gonna need a bigger law.
Oops! Deleted her account. But the internet never forgets.
They Are Not “Treaty People”
Australians have cast their vote in the Voice to Parliament referendum.
The proposal, to formally recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution and to create an advisory body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to make representations to the federal government, has been resoundingly defeated. […]
Opposition leader Peter Dutton says the result is “good for our country”.
He thanked No campaign leaders Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Nyunggai Warren Mundine.
“No one is owed more gratitude than each of these individuals,” he said.
“They have suffered through deeply personal and offensive attacks.”
Mr Dutton said the Coalition wants to see Indigenous disadvantage addressed.
“We just disagree on the Voice being the solution,” he said.
Calling for an end to “academics and activists” thinking they knew better than people on the ground in remote communities, she said that a new way of thinking was required.
“We should not maintain the racism of low expectations in this country,’’ she said. “We are all part of the fabric of this nation.”
Senator Price said she wanted to thank the Australian people for “believing in our nation.”
“The Australian people have overwhelmingly voted No. They have said No to division in our Constitution along the lines of race,” she said.
“They have said No to the gas-lighting, bullying, to the manipulation. They have said No to grievance and the push from activists to suggest that we are a racist country when we are absolutely not a racist country. […]
In an emotional speech, she described the Voice referendum as the “biggest gaslighting event our nation has ever experienced”.
“We are sick to death of being told how racist we are, how horrible we are. Our own children are being taught not to be proud to call themselves Australians in this country,’’ she said.
Senator Price has argued a Voice would “constitutionally enshrine” a victimhood mentality in the country.
“It doesn’t belong here,”
Bell Curve v. Ontario
They were promised there would be no math.
The Canadian Constitution Foundation has been granted intervenor status in the Ontario government’s appeal of the decision in Petrucci v. Ontario,2021 ONSC 7386, which found legislation requiring teachers to pass a math proficiency test (MPT) constituted unconstitutional racial discrimination.
In 2018, the Ontario government developed a plan to reverse the decline in student math scores. A key component of the plan was an amendment to the Ontario College of Teachers Act to require that all new teacher candidates successfully complete a MPT before they are certified.
The MPT consists of questions sourced from the standardized tests that are administered to students in Grades 3, 6, and 9, plus a pedagogy component. The tests were reviewed for bias and cultural insensitivity before they were administered. Teacher candidates are also permitted to retake the test if they fail.
A group called Ontario Teachers Candidates’ Council (OTCC) was formed to oppose the math testing requirement. The group argued at Divisional Court that the pass and failure rates of the test varied, and some of those variations could be mapped to racial identity. The Divisional Court ruled that the MPT requirement is unconstitutional and that the disparities in outcome by race showed a violation of section 15(1) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees the right to equality and freedom from discrimination. The Divisional Court found that the MPT, in its impact, created a distinction between White and non-White candidates, and that the distinction was discriminatory. The Divisional Court held that this limit could not be justified under section 1 of the Charter.
Shovels 1 – Knowledge Keepers 0
Jonathan Kay delivers the grim news.
A group called Mohawk Mothers has been seeking to delay/block McGill U’s “New Vic” project in Montreal—based on claims of secret burials & unmarked Indigenous graves on the site. Today, @mcgillu’s provost reported that no graves were found, including in areas identified by GPR. (no word yet on whether McGill’s leadership team will be indicted on charges of “denialism”)
The determined Mothers aren’t about to let colonialist concepts like “facts” stop them.
Canada’s Hateful Indigenous Blood Libel
Those who think such repugnant myths would never gain traction in a civilized multi-cultural country like Canada should think again because we have our very own version of the Jewish blood libel, supported by numerous Protocols look-alikes such as the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, namely an indigenous blood libel grounded in the belief that the Canadian nation-state, aided and abetted by the Roman Catholic Church, have been trying to exterminate the aboriginal people of our country from early contact in the 16th century to the present day.
The goal of this sentiment is to fuel hatred against the Catholic Church and the country of Canada, paralleling the 2004 US Department of State’s “Report on Global Anti-Semitism” (2004) that “The clear purpose of the [Protocols is] to incite hatred of Jews and of Israel.”
But the indigenous genocide blood libel — that countless children were murdered Nazi-style in Indian Residential Schools as part of a plot to wipe out all aboriginals— did not begin with stories by unnamed and unknown indigenous knowledge keepers, as most people assume.
Although many indigenous actors have been involved in this tangled web of deceit, what was originally a blood libel against Jewish people was re-jigged by a white man, a defrocked United Church of Canada minister named Kevin Arnett. And its strongest promotion since then has been at the hands of an NDP member of the House of Commons…
Read it all, pass it along.
Khmer Noir
Decolonialization is just a fancy word for “paint a target on their back”.
“The Blaze” notes that over the weekend, South Africa’s Marxist-Leninist political party, the Economic Freedom Fighters, held their 10th anniversary celebration. Along with singing the praises of Vladimir Putin, party leader Julius Malema led the crowd in a chant: “Dubul’ ibhunu” or, “Shoot to kill, kill the Boer, kill the farmer.” If you did not know, “Boer” refers to the white Dutch settlers who came to South Africa. Specifically, “Boer” means farmer in Afrikaans and Dutch. The reference is to white people.
But don’t call it genocide. That would be racist.
Read “To Kill A Mockingbird” While You Still Can
Redefining Atticus Finch as a racist was an act of our era’s penchant for self-loathing. It was simply unacceptable to have a decent, honorable character whom people could look to for inspiration. Even a fictional character must be sullied and prepped for re-education camp.
The “W” Word
A Snow White with darker skin literally makes no sense, of course, because she was quite literally Snow White, named after her abnormally White skin. “The fairest of them all,” I seem to recall. But whatever. My objection is not particularly that the races were swapped, but by how tediously predictable doing so was.
‘Well, it’s a kind of grievance competition.”
Every time “Douglas Murray” trends a leftist gets their stings.
More: The Left now wants the utter abolition of Britain as we know it…
Let The Wailing Commence
BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court rules colleges and universities must stop considering race in admissions, putting an end to affirmative action in higher education.
More: Democrats Devastated As Supreme Court Bans Racism
@EWErickson – Clarence Thomas responds to Ketanji Brown Jackson’s racist world view with pure fire.