Good morning, It’s Thursday, June 7th. In today’s news, Ontario declares war on DEI in schools and universities, The politics of perception and the quiet war over language in Canada, Carney and Trump quietly negotiate a trade and security framework, Israel to seize Gaza aid flotilla and arrest Thunberg along with other A-list activists, and much more.
The Ford government has been in power for quite some time and is only now getting around to doing something about racist dei programs. I will believe it when I see it.
We watched the shop teacher with the gigantico fake boobs make a mockery of all this for over 7 months. I can say in my child's middle school the pride flag was given nearly equal prominence in the gym as the Canadian flag. There are currently school clubs in highschool that exclude people based on skin color. Job applications ask if you are a member of certain groups relating to sexual or cultural identification. Homeless shelters and medical facilities are proposed that exclude people based on the color of skin.
This has become a society quickly reverting to segregation and a repudiating of the values of Martin Luther King. I would question whether Ford is actually serious, and if so, why did he wait so long doing nothing while this rot has embedded itself into the system.
With respect to language shaping reality, it has a whole lot of power. Gregory Bateson is good to remember. I paraphrase his question: “how do our ways of thinking and talking, living and acting, contribute to our success or failure as a species.” We shape our reality without awareness. But we can become aware.
Canada is a broken , grifting country. I pray Alberta starts a movement that spreads throughout your once great nation. Your own citizens hate it. The honest ones. Or non elites.
Dei is racism. Look at all of the studies on black income before affirmative action. You will find after it actually lessoned. What ever happened to colorblind. The best man or woman at a job gets it? Merit. The difference between a person studying an hour a day and another studying 12. Sound they have the same outcome in your opinion ? Race doesn’t matter in this question ?
The Ford government has been in power for quite some time and is only now getting around to doing something about racist dei programs. I will believe it when I see it.
We watched the shop teacher with the gigantico fake boobs make a mockery of all this for over 7 months. I can say in my child's middle school the pride flag was given nearly equal prominence in the gym as the Canadian flag. There are currently school clubs in highschool that exclude people based on skin color. Job applications ask if you are a member of certain groups relating to sexual or cultural identification. Homeless shelters and medical facilities are proposed that exclude people based on the color of skin.
This has become a society quickly reverting to segregation and a repudiating of the values of Martin Luther King. I would question whether Ford is actually serious, and if so, why did he wait so long doing nothing while this rot has embedded itself into the system.
With respect to language shaping reality, it has a whole lot of power. Gregory Bateson is good to remember. I paraphrase his question: “how do our ways of thinking and talking, living and acting, contribute to our success or failure as a species.” We shape our reality without awareness. But we can become aware.
Canada is a broken , grifting country. I pray Alberta starts a movement that spreads throughout your once great nation. Your own citizens hate it. The honest ones. Or non elites.
Dei is racism. Look at all of the studies on black income before affirmative action. You will find after it actually lessoned. What ever happened to colorblind. The best man or woman at a job gets it? Merit. The difference between a person studying an hour a day and another studying 12. Sound they have the same outcome in your opinion ? Race doesn’t matter in this question ?
Finally. The ford gvnmt does something useful.