“Identity Politics” – Page 24

Jonathan Kay: Hurting Indigenous academics with good intentions

The sad story of a UBC professor shows what happens when people and topics are insulated from criticism

…Convinced that the school and the whistle-blowers were engaged in a “corrupt” scheme, inspired by a legacy of “colonial genocide,” she dedicated her last lecture to a host of conspiracy theories — chemtrails, COVID-19 vaccines — sometimes launching into fits of laughter, denunciations of named unsupportive colleagues (Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike), and tangents about her tragically unsuccessful personal relationships.

Surreally, at the 48-minute mark of the recording, she and the students are all heard simultaneously receiving the email news of her being placed on administrative leave. It’s difficult to listen to her reaction. Yet Wolf herself seems anxious to publicize her plight, declaring that she wants her case to be “national news.”

by Blazingcatfur•February 8, 2021February 8, 2021•0•"Good Intentions Paving Company", "Identity Politics"

Why Is Identity Politics Destroying America?

Tribalism has turned toxic in the age of social media.

Man is by nature a tribal creature. For many thousands of years, human existence was defined by family connections, with ties of blood and marriage providing the social network that ensured cooperation and support necessary to sustaining life. Loyalty to one’s kinship group — the tribe or clan — was vital to this system of cooperation, and from the deeply rooted tribal nature of human life emerges the sense of national identity that inspires what we call patriotism.

by Blazingcatfur•February 5, 2021February 5, 2021•0•"Identity Politics", Big Racism

Secretary of Ethnic Studies?

President Biden’s choice to lead the Education Department has a thin record—except in one trailblazing area.

President Biden’s nomination of Miguel Cardona to be Secretary of Education was greeted with a sigh of relief from some education reformers—more for who he isn’t than for who he is. He isn’t a teachers’ union leader. He’s not a tenured radical. He isn’t a vocal charter school opponent.

Cardona doesn’t, in fact, have much of a paper trail.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2021February 3, 2021•0•"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism, "Identity Politics"

New Team in Washington: Beyond Tokenism

The United States is about “We the People,” not “We the Minorities”. Democracy is a melting pot, not a salad bar.

Last month, as he started shaping his future Cabinet, President-elect Joe Biden promised to form a team that offers a better representation of America as it is. Judging by the welcome that his Cabinet has received across the globe, one may conclude that he has delivered on his promise.

According to media reports, the Biden team has been “warmly received” in Canada, Mexico and Western Europe, among other places. Radio France Internationale even reports “a sense of jubilation” in Abuja because Biden’s team includes several Nigerian-Americans at its second tier. In Tehran, the media take note of the inclusion of five or six Iranian-Americans in the new team with the hope that their presence would help change Washington’s policy towards Iran.

Biden’s team includes a number of “firsts”.

by Blazingcatfur•January 31, 2021January 31, 2021•0•"Identity Politics", "Joe Sleazebag Biden"

Biden’s ‘racial justice’ agenda: Judge everyone by the color of their skin

On Tuesday, six days into Joe Biden’s administration, it became clear why Susan Rice, hitherto a foreign-policy specialist, was named director of the Domestic Policy Council. Rice — unconfirmable for a Cabinet post after her unembarrassed Sunday-show lying about the Benghazi terrorist attack — ventured into the White House press room to preview Biden’s “equity” initiative.

by Blazingcatfur•January 30, 2021January 30, 2021•0•"Identity Politics", "Joe Sleazebag Biden"

BC “Am I racist?” ads cost approximately $70K: Office of the Human Rights Commissioner

An ongoing anti-racist campaign launched late last year has cost taxpayers approximately $70,000 so far, according to the office of BC’s Human Rights Commissioner (BCOHRC) Kasari Govender.

“We have a legislative mandate to provide education to the province of B.C. on anti-racism and anti-discrimination. It is one of our core functions,” the Office’s Acting Director of Communications Elaine O’Connor told True North.

by Sarcasticat•January 28, 2021January 27, 2021•0•"Identity Politics", "Peak Virtue Signalling", "racial justice", BC, Canada, Race Baiting Grievance Mongers, Racist!

Canadian politics is a sad affair: Under pressure to disavow Trump-supporting members, Conservatives slam Liberals for ‘American-style’ attacks says Red Star

When Canadians hear about Trump-style politics coming to the country, many collectively shudder.

But within a day of them recoiling in shock while watching thousands of pro-Donald Trump rioters storm the Capitol in Washington D.C., news outlets were reporting on a photo of the deputy leader of the Conservative party, Candice Bergen, wearing a camouflage Make America Great Again hat.

In the days that followed, more Conservative faux pas, ostensibly involving the far-right, began receiving attention.

Never crossed our minds frankly… Don’t call me Canada’s Donald Trump, Erin O’Toole says

Erin O’Toole wants you to know that he’s not Canada’s version of Donald Trump and that his Conservative Party is nothing like Trump’s bitterly divided Republicans.

O’Toole’s assurances come after Justin Trudeau’s Liberals launched a new effort to brand O’Toole and the Conservatives as “Trump North.”

Warped beyond reason by the weaponized lies of diversity, multiculturalism and mass immigration Canada is lost to identity politics.

Show me the difference between the Conservative party and the Liberals. Each accuses the other of their identical sins.

It’s reached the point where only whites, heterosexuals and Christians remain fair game for discrimination by our hatefully woke media and corrupt political class.

I sure as hell won’t be voting CPC or LPC.

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2021January 17, 2021•0•"Identity Politics", Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's Virtue Signalling Class

Jonathan Kay: The CBC’s toxic workplace exposed after arbitrator sides with fired reporter

“…Between the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons alone, CBC television lost 25 per cent of its viewers. Its English-language audience share is now less than four per cent— a predictable consequence of policies that prioritize quotas and activist mono-think over editorial quality. At Thursday’s CRTC hearings into the renewal of CBC’s broadcasting licences (the transcript of which is available online), virtually every question and talking point went, in some way, to identity politics. On one of the few occasions when CBC CEO Catherine Tait mentioned actual programming, it was to boast about Canada Tonight with Ginella Massa, a newly announced show that looks exactly like every other similarly conceived CBC news show, except that — plot twist! — the host has a hijab. This is what now passes for fresh new thinking at the CBC: the same bad food served by a waiter of a different hue.”

Few care about the woke CBC. I have long said the CBC is its own culture unrelated and even hostile to Canada. Busy spending your tax dollars producing “content” solely for the CBC’s own consumption. Harper should have defunded the cesspool when he had the chance.

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2021January 17, 2021•0•"Identity Politics", CBC, CBC Scandals

Ben Shapiro: UNREAL: ANTIFA Demands Andy Ngo’s Book Be REMOVED From Portland Bookstore

NOTE: Andy Ngo is an independent journalist. He is a gay Vietnamese men.

by Black Mamba•January 12, 2021January 12, 2021•0•"Identity Politics", Antifa, USA

Voters Blocks

I believe that this was said before:

Immigrants are more likely to apply for citizenship to vote rather than to seek a Canadian passport, says in-house research by the Department of Citizenship. Foreigners said they prized the country’s freedom of speech: ‘It was for my children.’

People who care about their children recognise the reasons why they left their former countries and do not repeat the mistakes that made them unlivable in the first place.

No, this is about keeping certain persons or parties in power, hence the ethnic and sectarian divide and conquer.

Parachute a non (insert ethnic identity here) into (insert previously mentioned ethnic identity here) and run solely on the issues.

Let’s see who votes for the issues then.

by Osumashi•January 11, 2021•0•"Diversity", "Identity Politics", Can a civilization commit suicide?, Canada, election, Immigrants vote left, Immigration

Jonathan Kay: Michelle Latimer saga shows that DNA can make or break your career

Three years ago, I signed up for Ancestry.com’s AncestryDNA service, having been drawn in by the company’s TV ads. You might remember the most famous one, in which a white-appearing woman named Kim burbled about how she’d learned she was 16 per cent Native-American.

by Blazingcatfur•December 29, 2020December 29, 2020•0•"Cancel Culture", "Identity Politics"

Conrad Black: Canada racist? Nonsense

In the absence of anything more original to write at year-end, the politics of this country are discouraging; I lamented as recently as last week the failure of any visible and audible political leader in the country to offer even a slightly uplifting version of what the late president George Bush Sr. used to call ”the vision thing.” Political discourse in this country appears to be confined entirely to climate change, gender issues, native concerns, and the apparently invincible, bone-crushing advance of the juggernaut of political correctness. The entire citizenry seems to have been mobilized to hunt down, root out, pulverize, and incinerate any trace of the ghastly and abominable, ubiquitous bugbear, “systemic racism.” It is an “existential” threat. The phrase means that the social and political system in this case of Canada is rotten throughout, because of its inherent racist prejudices. In practice, many people who bandy this conceptually and acoustically irritating phrase about have no idea what they mean and if asked to think about it, most would say that they believe there has been a good deal of official racism and racially discriminating attitudes and practices in Canadian history, and that to a substantial extent, it lingers yet. This is utter nonsense.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2020December 28, 2020•0•"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism, "Identity Politics", Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

2020: the year racial identity took over

A backward and divisive racial ideology has filled the vacuum left by disillusionment in the West.

2020 was the year that a divisive form of racial identity politics, embodied in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, was accelerated and institutionalised.

BLM brought with it a politics of victimhood, a view of races as rigidly defined and adversarial, and a view of the past as something to be sanitised and fought against. The cowardice and capitulation of our institutions to censorious mob pressure made 2020 the year we nearly lost our collective grip on reality.

by Blazingcatfur•December 27, 2020December 27, 2020•0•"Identity Politics"

Of Merit and Melanin: Identity Politics and the Balkanization of America

On May 22, 2019, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams gave a speech at the Center for American Progress. Ms. Abrams spoke out strongly in her defense of Identity Politics, stating that “Identity Politics is exactly who we are and exactly how we won,” and arguing that Identity Politics “brought new folks to the process.” That is untrue.

by Blazingcatfur•December 24, 2020December 23, 2020•0•"Identity Politics"