You can’t cure what you can’t define. Let’s work toward some definitional clarity when it comes to ESG, DEI, and Bridge.
Look. Just look. People with wildly different political allegiances have a heated, spirited, and RESPECTFUL discussion of contentious issues. It can be done.
Discourse is the lifeblood of democratic societies and thus, we should be wary of people who would shut down discourse rather than defend their ideas in the public square.
‘So they say’
Devotion in circles of devotion,
tenderness touches tendernesses…
It is your inward that incessantly
caresses itself, so they say;
caresses itself
through its own reflection.
Thus you invent the theme
Of Narcissus satisfied.
Post modern and critical theories rely on the misuse of words to mystify people. The downstream effects of this bullshittery are apparent as even the Merriam Webster dictionary is now having difficulty defining what a woman is.
Always define your terms when you arguing with the woke – it is 9/10ths of their game. Demonstrate the linguistic tomfoolery and you might have a chance at a productive discussion.
It is really amazing the lengths people will go through to confirm their victimhood identities. And of course, the CBC will highlight how awesome it is to use AI to ‘make the internet a safer place for Indigenous people’.
Good lord. If the bad internet is hurting you…turn it off. But rather than make an adult decision, let’s do this:
“A new tool aims to use artificial intelligence to help make the internet a safer place for Indigenous people.
The project was given the name wâsikan kisewâtisiwin, which translates to “kind energy” in Cree.
“We’re trying to make the internet a kinder place. We’re trying to change the trajectory of the internet towards discriminated people,” Shani Gwin told CBC’s Radio Active.”
On the internet you are (with certain measures) essentially anonymous. What you say on the internet will be taken at face value (in theory).
“Being developed in collaboration with the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (AMii), the tool is dual purpose, intended to help both Indigenous people and non-Indigenous Canadians reduce racism, hate speech, and online bias.
The first function of the program is to moderate online spaces like comment sections. While the internet has been a tool used by Indigenous people for advocacy, it also can frequently be an unsafe space for communities that are discriminated against, Gwin said.
Gwin said that all it takes is one comment for online spaces to fester.”
If people want to pillow-up a spot on the internet, they are more than welcome to do so. Usually though, this sort of anti-free speech mechanism escapes from its hug-box confines and is loosed into the wider ecosystem.
“The tool flags hateful comments, and then provides sample responses, while also documenting these instances for future reporting.
The second function of the tool is designed to serve as a writing plug-in for your computer — similar to Grammarly. Intended to help general Canadians understand their bias, it will flag any writing that may be biased against Indigenous people, provide an explanation, and a suggestion for how to reword the sentence.”
Wow! It is like having your own personal Big Brother making sure that you are engaged in ‘right-thinking’ at all times. Plus offering real time suggestions on how to neuter your speech as to not risk offence to others.
“AI right now is designed through the lens of Canada’s dominant culture. And I would say that across the world that without input from racialized communities, including Indigenous people, AI cannot analyze and produce culturally safe and respectful content,” Gwin said.
“Every piece of infrastructure in Canada has been developed from the white patriarchal lens,” she said. “So more racialized people, more women need to get involved in the development of AI so that it doesn’t continue to be built in a way that’s going to harm us again.”
Whoops! Did you catch the turn into Marxist Critical Theory? I certainly did – That damn AI developed through the lens of ‘dominant culture’. Beginning with a conclusion and then looking for evidence based on your assumptions almost always leads to bullshit results.
Just no. AI was developed by a diverse body of people from across the world, let’s not shoehorn your ‘critical perspective’ into this.
“AI bias revealed itself in training, Qroon said, adding that at times when experimenting with the AI, it would try to minimize the tragedies that Indigenous people went through.
“And that’s why it was very important for us to integrate the Indigenous community into this process and get their perspective and get the instructions from them.”
The AI making the decision to not follow a trauma informed narrative? Huh. Well that will need to be fixed ASAP.
“Gwin said that her hope for the project is that it helps take the emotional labour of education off Indigenous people — and free them up to do things besides moderating comment sections.
“I think there might be concerns that people think that this AI tool will take jobs away from Indigenous people, but it’s not, that’s not what it’s for. It’s there to do the work that we don’t want to do.”
Yes, censorship is such an emotional labour. Much better to let a machine – an entity with even less capacity for nuance – take the reins.
“But it also means changing the internet and Canadians’ hearts and minds about who Indigenous people are.”
You mean changing minds in a positive way, right? Because this just looks like social and emotional manipulation in service of maintaining a oppressed/oppressor narrative that benefits no one in Canada.
As it is with most cult ideologies the majority of what they say is bullshit. The suicide myth is particularly pernicious as it is used to coerce parents into consenting to have their children surgically mutilated in a misguided attempt to solve their mental issues.
“There is no evidence of a large rise in suicides in young patients attending a gender identity clinic in London, an independent review has found.
Professor Louis Appleby was asked by Health Secretary Wes Streeting to examine the data following claims made by campaigners of a rise in suicide rates since puberty-blocking drugs were restricted at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in 2020.
Prof Appleby’s review concludes “the data do not support the claim”, and he added the way the issue had been discussed on social media was “insensitive, distressing and dangerous”.
This is the truth that the people who advocate for this transgender social contagion do not want you to know.
“That was recommended in the Cass Review, published in April, which found “remarkably weak” evidence on the use of the treatment.
In response to their claims, the new health secretary launched an independent review led by Prof Appleby which analysed data from NHS England on suicides of patients at the Tavistock clinic, based on an audit at the trust.
Covering the period between 2018-19 and 2023-24, he found there were 12 suicides – five in the three years leading up to 2020-21 and seven in the three years afterwards.
“This is essentially no difference,” Prof Appleby says in his report, “taking account of expected fluctuations in small numbers, and would not reach statistical significance.”
He adds: “In the under 18s specifically, there were 3 suicides before and 3 after 2020-21.”
The patients who died were in different points in the care system, including post-discharge, suggesting no consistent link to any one aspect of care, Prof Appleby noted.”
Make note this is what evidence based medicine looks like.
“Dr Cass’ review found there was insufficient evidence to show puberty blockers were safe for under 18s which is why the NHS has already stopped their routine prescription for children with gender dysphoria.
“We are committed to ensuring children questioning their gender receive the best possible multidisciplinary care, led by expert clinical guidance. That is why we are reforming gender identity services.”
So, when will Canada return to actual medical practices instead of the gender activist quackery that it is currently following?
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