The amount of profound stupidity in Canada’s HoC some days. The government needs to ensure that individual rights and safety are protected in society.
You know how you solve climates of ‘hate and fear’ – with speech and cogent arguments. Not hand-waving at the pathetic progressive boogymen of “islamaphobia” and “systemic racism”.
“I Investigated the UK’s Most CENSORIOUS Campus (4K)” delves into the atmosphere of one of the UK’s universities known for its restrictive policies on free speech. The video, by journalist Andrew Gold, investigates how this institution has become a focal point for debates on censorship, examining incidents where speakers have been banned or events canceled due to their potentially controversial content.
It discusses the tension between ensuring a safe space for all students and the traditional university ethos of open debate and inquiry, highlighting specific cases where academic freedom has been challenged by student activism or university policies.
The narrative captures both the perspectives of those advocating for more censorship to protect vulnerable groups and those who see it as an erosion of free expression.
Surprise surprise. To actually make recycling effective it relies on the decisions of individuals to use less in the first place, and that is the only way as of yet to reduce the amount of waste produced.
The recycling narrative remains powerful, but its bullshit and needs to be empirically reviewed. Let’s make science relevant again.
Team Empathy and Inclusion are attempting to destroy people’s lives when they won’t bend the knee to their ideological bullshit.
“Although the Northern Ontario municipal leader vowed not to honour a $5,000 fine the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) levied against him for comments surrounding town council not approving a motion to approve Pride month, he wasn’t given a choice.
In fact, the winner of the judgement that McQuaker called “extortion” has boasted it has already gone into his bank account to collect the money.“Sure, sex is great, but have you ever garnished your mayor’s bank account after he publicly refused to comply with a Tribunal’s order to pay damages?” states a Borderland Pride post on Facebook.
It seems like they are enjoying this.Council may not have let them raise a rainbow flag for Pride month but they are planting a flag in the ground to show Emo is their town.
“Mayor McQuaker’s comments in the Toronto Sun and other media were very clear that he did not respect nor intend to comply with the Tribunal’s orders,” Borderland Pride said in an email. “Consequently, it was apparent he would not voluntarily make payment of the damages ordered. We took immediate action to garnish his bank account.”
What McQuaker told the Sun was, “I utterly refuse to pay the $5,000 because that’s extortion” and also said he would not partake in an Ontario Human Rights Commission re-education course.
On ensuring he did pay, Borderland Pride said, “The garnishment was issued by the court and delivered to the CIBC in Emo, which is the only bank in that community” and ”there is no hearing or application to issue a notice of garnishment – it is a service provided at the court counter or online once a person has an order for the payment of money.”Borderland Pride also wrote, “Orders of the Tribunal can be enforced in the same manner as any civil judgment for the payment of money. We intend to ensure the Tribunal’s orders are complied with.”
Turns out Mayor McQuaker is not in charge there – Borderland Pride is.
Cancel culture is cancelling this mayor and digging into his personal savings too. On a weak premise that there is discrimination of LGBT people there, the enforcement is harsher than most violent criminals receive. It seems like a heavy-handed, undemocratic move, not to mention a violation of personal finances, and cruel and unusual punishment.”
“There is no decision so far on the status of the $10,000 fine HRTO slapped on the Township of Emo for the 2020 decision by town council to vote three to two against granting a request for there to be a Pride month in the village of just 1,400 people. And Borderland Pride said they have so far not garnished the township as they await that decision.”
“I will not be commenting until next Wednesday (council’s next meeting) when we will make a statement,” McQuaker said Friday, adding his “knuckles have been rapped” this week.”
I’m tired of the activist bullshit. But using the state to penalize a village for a decision made democratically is just beyond the pale.
This isn’t my Canada – where rule of law and democracy take a backseat to the fucking hurt feelings of LGBTQ+ activists. This is overreach and must be reversed at once.
Soon or later your false arguments and assumptions will hit the wall known as reality. It has been too long a time coming in the case of the ideological transgender social contagion that has plagued our society. When your positions are risible bullshit – which the transgender ones are – the truth will be hard to take, as it will take you and your worldview crashing back down to the plane of reality we all share.
A ideological captured female lawyer at ACLU is living the return to reality right now.
“The Supreme Court has been hearing a case over a law in Tennessee that restricts puberty blockers for children. Judging by the early reports, it doesn’t seem to have turned out quite as the trans extremists had intended. Bringing these cases to court – and allowing the public to hear the crazy arguments made in favour of irreversible and risky medical treatments for children – is surely one of the most effective ways to collapse the entire gender ideology house of cards. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and its trans-identified lawyer, Chase Strangio, have sought to argue that it is discriminatory under the constitution for Tennessee to impose the ban. Their case hinges on the idea that it violates the 14th amendment, which bars discrimination based on sex. It is surely not sex under scrutiny in this case, however, but gender identity. And a single question during Wednesday’s hearings blew up the ACLU’s whole argument – as well as exposing the lunacy of gender ideology more generally.
Conservative justice Samuel Alito asked Strangio whether transgender status is immutable. In other words, is it something that cannot be changed? “I think that the record shows that the discordance between a person’s birth sex and gender identity has a strong biological basis and would satisfy an immutability test,” replied Strangio. But how can that be? Isn’t the trans cabal’s entire belief system built on the idea that gender identity is “fluid” – that an individual’s feelings should be promoted above the facts of their biology, even to the extent that people can legitimately identify as a different gender on different days of the week? And how does Strangio explain the growing numbers of detransitioners? Does he think that they are now in denial about the “discordance” between their “birth sex and gender identity”? Or would he prefer that they just kept quiet?
The writer Ben Appel was part of the anti-gender ideology crowd gathered outside the court on Wednesday. He grew up in a Christian fundamentalist community and suffered extreme anti-gay prejudice. He eventually escaped and ended up in a cult at the progressive university he attended. “For years, the valid concerns and heart-wrenching testimonies of detransitioners, parents, paediatricians, therapists and whistleblowers have gone largely ignored by medical associations and the activist organisations they bankroll,” he said. “And clinicians continue to mislead parents and subject their children to this profound medical harm.”
In an interview with CNN, Strangio asserted that removing parents’ right to put their children on an irreversible medical pathway was “sex discrimination” despite the fact that transgender-identified people rely on gender identity. “Our argument is that it treats people differently because of their sex. And therefore, the court has to treat it like all other forms of sex discrimination. And that’s why it’s unconstitutional,” said Strangio.
When asked whether, if their case won, it would have a knock-on effect in allowing men who identify as women to claim constitutionally-based access to women’s bathrooms, locker rooms and sports, Strangio not only denied that this would happen but said: “I obviously disagree with that premise that allowing transgender women into women’s sports or bathrooms is a threat to women.” And there we have it. The safety of women and girls is less important than the feelings of men. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health commissioned Johns Hopkins University to perform a systematic evidence review on the use of so-called gender medicine for children, which it suppressed publication of when it concluded the treatment was harmful.
Justice Alito added that the Cass Report found no evidence that gender medicine prevents suicide, to which Strangio replied: “Completed suicide is thankfully and admittedly rare.” Strangio just told the world what was already known. A movement which threatens suicide if it fails to get what it wants is a cult. Courts of justice are currently the only places where gender ideologues are obliged to answer questions, and as a consequence, the public can hear the madness and danger it entails. I hope that, if the ACLU loses, the next step will be criminal charges against those medics and parents that cause children irreversible harm.”
“The new Red Paper’s academic tone is an exception to standard aboriginal activist discourse, but it too resorts to emotional hooks. “The stakes of these struggles are immense,” the authors state on page 64. “Of course, while Indigenous land and life are the focus here, the life of our species and of the planet are at risk from the type of economic philosophy and practices of (sic) perpetuated by colonialism and settler colonialism…So the matter of land back is not merely a matter of justice, rights or ‘reconciliation’; Indigenous jurisdiction can indeed help mitigate the loss of biodiversity and climate crisis…Canada – and states generally must listen.”
Having used decolonization ideology as a springboard to investing Indigenous-led solutions with the capacity to save the world, the Red Paper portrays the nation-state as posing a barrier to such an Indigenous-led global salvation. It portrays the UN as “an organization of states that first and foremost defends the territorial integrity of sovereign states,” which “means that states are the primary vehicle to address climate change and loss of biodiversity.” And so, the paper laments on page 65, “Even while the UN recognizes the harms states perpetuate against Indigenous people (including denying consent), they cannot imagine non-state Indigenous-led solutions that may threaten the state system.”
*rolls eyes*
“The Red Paper authors appear to be suggesting that Indigenous organizations (to be determined) be given supra-jurisdictional authority. As grandiose and unrealistic as it sounds, it seems that they think aboriginal people should rule the world because they know what is best for the world and they know that because they are of the world in a way that non-Indigenous people are not; Mother Earth has given them her blessings as a birthright.
The continuing and in some ways worsening Indigenous/non-Indigenous dichotomy is a bane of humanity; it is antithetical to humanism because it presumes to determine who belongs here the most and who the least. If humanity matters most, it cannot matter who was here first. Some of the more sophisticated Indigenous exceptionalists are now staking their global campaign for jurisdiction on an issue of convenience: the fears of an existential peril – climate apocalypse – underpinned by the belief that they are somehow imbued with knowledge, skills and a force of origin that ordinary mortals do not possess. It is of course preposterous, and surely tempting to laugh off such presumption.”
Stuff like this is the end result of identity politics. Divisive and toxic for a society.
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