The Biden administration is considering reclassifying Hispanics as a race rather than an ethnicity, even though Hispanics are not, in fact, a distinct race — they can be primarily white, indigenous, or black in ancestry, notes law professor David Bernstein. Most Hispanics are descended partly from Europeans, and descended partly from the native people of the Americas — not from a single race.
Is there some hope that senile progressivism’s days are numbered?
“Woman.” A word that didn’t need to be defined because its meaning was, until very recently, self-evident: “woman” is defined as a female with the XX chromosome and the only human being capable of having children.
Now Western nihilism in its worst form cancels it. It would be easy to dismiss these comic aspects of identity politics, according to which “what really matters is not who you are but which oppressed minority you belong to.” Exasperated existentialism is the dead end of a self-satisfied era. But if even the most banal question, “What is a woman?”, puts the system in crisis, then it means that the situation is serious, but that there is hope. Hope that senile progressivism’s days are numbered.
‘Kind of terrifying’: Numbers show racist Great Replacement conspiracy theory has found audience in Canada
Timothy Caulfield has spent the pandemic battling bunk science and lies.
The course of COVID-19 has seen more Canadians spiral into the realm of conspiracy theories and it’s kept the misinformation expert busy.
So busy, he says, he felt he didn’t have time to really delve into one, particular conspiracy theory that was gaining traction: the racist lie that there is a co-ordinated effort to replace white people with immigrants, in what is known as the Great Replacement theory.
You know they’re running scared when ham-fisted efforts to label anyone who questions immigration policy as a “far-right” racist start turning up. The goal, plain and simple, is to stifle debate and even criminalize dissent.
Sorry Star but the jig is up. Multiculturalism and Diversity are widely and correctly viewed as toxic lies used to justify a Mass Immigration policy that is designed to sate corporate greed and buy votes for our vile political class. It sure as hell isn’t designed to benefit citizens.
Besides it’s not a conspiracy if it’s true.
Opinion: Canada replacing its population a case of wilful ignorance, greed, excess political correctness
According to University of London professor Eric Kaufmann, almost seven out of 10 Vancouver residents will be “visible minorities” within two generations and 80 per cent of the Canadian population (compared to 20 per cent today) will be non-white in less than century.
Kaufmann notes that, with its continuing high immigration intake and the fact that four out of five newcomers are visible minorities, Canada is undergoing the fastest rate of ethnic change of any country in the Western world.
Questions must be asked about why such drastic population replacement is taking place and who is benefiting from it.
While Canada has been helped by large-scale immigration at various times in its history, the current high intake causes more problems than benefits for our current population. Our economy grows because of the increasing population, but the average Canadian gets a smaller piece of the bigger pie. The cost is huge — with latest estimates indicating taxpayers have to underwrite recent arrivals to the tune of around $30 billion annually. Young people in large cities such as Vancouver and Toronto are being crowded out of the housing market by sky-high prices caused largely by the ceaseless flow of new arrivals, and the quality of life of most residents is negatively effected by increased traffic and commute times, along with congestion and pressure on the health care and education systems.
See yesterdays post on the NatPo piece covering the same topic. It has links to additional articles worth your review.
In response to President Joe Biden’s June 2021 executive order, many federal agencies—from NASA to the Department of Defense—released plans to pursue diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in their day-to-day operations. In a recent comment on these efforts, one senior Defense Department official said he hopes “as many leaders and members of the total force as possible see [these] efforts as a force multiplier.”
In fact, DEI is a dangerous ideology—so dangerous that our leaders should regard it as a threat to national security, not an imperative of it. Many have already critiqued DEI as it appears in our nation’s universities. As Dorian Abbot and Ivan Marinovic recently explained, DEI violates ethical and legal principles of equality, compromises universities’ mission and undermines the public’s trust. When DEI is applied outside of higher education, such as within the federal government, these problems are exponentially worse, and for many reasons.
In contemporary Canada, expositions of pride take on a peculiar form– none more unusual than NDP Party Leader Jagmeet Singh’s approach to the topic:
“We must acknowledge that the colonial history of our country has actively had a harmful impact on 2SLGBTQI+ people. Two Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQQIA+ identities were actively attacked and purposefully destroyed. People who were once honored in their communities and held important traditional roles were left shamed, rejected and vulnerable.”
In Canada, the transgender movement recently received a giant shot in the arm. Our country is the first among western democracies to release a demographic report revealing the number of trans-Canadians. Pegged at 100,000, the amount represents .03 percent of our population. A mere trifle– but enough to provide an energy boost to the post-modern identifiable community.
… For example, it found that 41 per cent of Black people surveyed said they trusted the government, compared to 22 per cent within the general population. The same proportion said they trusted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, compared with 33 per cent surveyed in the general population. The higher approval rating comes despite photos of Trudeau wearing blackface and brownface surfacing in 2019, something he has apologized for because of its racist history.
As progressive causes dominate the media, a poll found huge overestimates of the number of black, gay and trans people
American ignorance is always an easy target. But my compatriots’ misconceptions about the US illustrated by a recent YouGov poll aren’t merely comical. They’re telling.
On average, the respondents estimate that 41 per cent of their countrymen are black, when the real figure is 12 per cent. More astonishingly, black Americans believe that 52 per cent of the country is also black. Respondents think America’s population is 29 per cent Asian (true: 6 per cent), 39 per cent Hispanic (true: 17 per cent), and 27 per cent Native American (true: 1 per cent). Those guesstimates add up to an arithmetically impossible 136 per cent (but then, no one ever loses money betting on the lousiness of Americans’ mathematical skills) — and that includes zero white people. The headline on this survey might have read: “Americans believe whites in the US have been subject to total genocide and don’t seem especially bothered”.
Left-wing politicians are not the saviours they’re marketed as. A reality check is due.
The political left makes a lot of promises to black people.
Left-wing politicians claim they are saviours who can solve all of the inequalities impacting black communities, if only left-wing political parties are given enough power.
For six-plus years media has been covering up a definitive aspect within the leadership style of Justin Trudeau. Throughout the time period, a social standard has quietly been maintained: government and media refuse to make reference Canada’s Anglophone communities.
Let us contrast this with treatment of 3rd World communities. Day after day, references to Sikh, Chinese and Muslim communities colour the flavour of media presentation. Quebecois culture, identity and heritage are a coveted commodity. But never an explicit reference Anglo-Canadians. For unspoken political reasons, this remains taboo.
It is time progressives stood up to the racism, classism and misogyny of wokeness.
The Identity Myth by David Swift is a fun and clever book. It’s a counterblast to the Flapper Girl socialism of Novara Media. It brilliantly dismantles the ‘NeoOrientalism’ of the identitarian left. It lights a fire under the arse of the graduate left who say, without a flicker of shame, that 65-year-old working-class people who own their homes are the new propertied elite while posh twentysomethings with PhDs who pay sky-high rents in hip Hackney are the new proles. If you’ve ever found yourself wondering how the left lost the plot, how a movement founded to represent the interests of the working class ended up treating the working class as a lost, hopeless, mostly racist cause, you could do worse than start here.
It would do Canadians well to contemplate an unnerving trend in society. Why is it that fringe social issues continuously take centre-stage in federal politics? For example, transgenderism. Based on media presentation, one would believe that transitioning one’s sexual identity is a commonplace experience among citizens.
Of course, it isn’t. 99% of Canadians do not indulge in the practice. Yet, by way of mainstream media, an objective observer would believe sex change surgery to be as common as rain in North Vancouver.
“When it comes to Black Lives Matter protests, if you’re not Black, remember that you’re there to show your support and amplify Black voices,” the article read.
“ESPECIALLY if you’re White, if they’re offering the megaphone for anyone to speak, it’s not for you,” the middle school publication continued. “You are here to listen and to show support.”
The list of tips went on to tell students how to dress, what not to record, and how to talk to police if they were taken into custody.
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