At Tomken Road Middle School in Mississauga, Ont., in the suburbs west of Toronto, the last day of school on Friday cannot come soon enough.
The school of 900 or so students in grades 6, 7 and 8 (aged 11 to 14) is in crisis, not only because of uncorrected misbehaviour by students that puts safety at risk and undermines every student’s education, but also because of bitter acrimony between teachers and board administration about how to respond.
Woke culture encourages and rewards pathological behaviours.
In his 1984 book, Political Ponerology, psychologist Andrzej Lobaczewski coined the term ‘pathocracy’. It refers to a government made up of people with personality disorders, particularly narcissism and psychopathology. Predictably, interest in the idea of pathocracy flourished after Donald Trump became president in 2016.
The presence of such personalities in politics is neither new nor surprising. Research has long shown that reward arrogance, preferring displays of confidence over competence. This can regularly lead to the promotion of the wrong individuals.
Americans are rejecting wokeism because they finally are realizing that if they do not, they will not have a civilization left.
Wokeness was envisioned as a new reboot of the coalition of the oppressed.
Those purportedly victimized by traditional America would find “intersectional” solidarity in their victimhood owing to the supposed sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and other alleged American sins, past and present.
The so-called white male heterosexual victimizing class was collectively to be held responsible for their sinful triad of white “rage,” “supremacy,” and “privilege.”
The “modern approach” to broadcasting regulation, according to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), involves ordering broadcasters to budget and produce content with diversity quotas in mind, while mandating that various groups of people be consulted every two years.
A statue of a slovenly clad black woman looks down on the city of Rotterdam with damning eyes.
Since the beginning of June, a 13 foot high bronze statue of a sloppily dressed black woman in sweatpants and sneakers towers above Rotterdam’s Central Station. In its short life, it has already managed to sharply divide the people of the Dutch port city and beyond.
Some newspapers and other media wax lyrical about this pean to multiculturalism and diversity in a city totally transformed by extra-European immigration in the space of a few decades.
Others bristle at what they consider a symbol of a state-sponsored ideology aimed at forcing the population to toe the line.
Chloe Grace Moretz agreed to star in Louis CK’s 2017 dramedy I Love You, Daddy, a plum gig for the rising star.
Once the comedian’s past reared its ugly head, the actress had a change of heart.
“I think it should just kind of go away, honestly. I don’t think it’s time for them to have a voice right now … of course, it’s devastating to put time into a project and have it disappear … but at the same time, this movement is so powerful and so progressive that I’m just happy to be in communication with everyone and to see the big change in the face of the industry, which I think is very, very real.”
If it were released today, “The Godfather” would possibly have no chance of winning a Best Picture Oscar.
That’s because the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is beholden to new inclusivity standards.
Starting with the March 2024 awards, movies will not be considered for a Best Picture nomination unless they feature a lead or significant supporting character from an “underrepresented racial or ethnic group,” have a main storyline that focuses on an underrepresented group, or at least 30% of the cast comes from two or more underrepresented groups (women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ or the disabled).
IF someone isn’t a man then what are they? “A woman”? Ha – wrong answer, bigot!
According to the geniuses at John Hopkins University, this week’s correct answer is a “non-man”.
Measuring body fat percentages now also involves calculating the “historical harm” of medical methods
The American Medical Association just announced its adoption of a head-scratching new policy that seems to be aimed not so much at improving people’s health, but at appearing sensitive and “woke.”
The head of the Army is considering scrapping centuries-old ranks such as Rifleman and Guardsman because they are masculine.
In an attempt to make regiments more inclusive, General Sir Patrick Sanders is poised to break hundreds of years of battlefield tradition.
Historic titles used by world-renowned Guards regiments and even his own regiment, the Rifles, could be ditched in favour of gender-neutral ranks.
Sergeant to become Bull Dyke and Lieutenant Fairy Queen?
This nauseating corporate spectacle has nothing to do with the gay-rights movement of old.
Pride used to be over and done with in a day. Now it lingers around like norovirus. And for an increasing number of lesbians and gay men like myself, it induces similar symptoms.
The whole of June is now given over to Pride Month. And just as the duration has changed, so has the tone. The parades are starting to resemble a rainbow version of the Orange March. Rather than celebrating the liberation of the oppressed, they seem designed to bully the public into supporting the movement.
California’s unions prioritise progressivism over fair pay
In 2019, my children’s teachers went on strike for higher pay, and I supported it, which was a bit of a surprise. I’d always thought public-sector unions a mockery of the idea of organised labour — not workers bargaining for a larger share of the value they create, but bureaucrats extracting rents from taxpayers, via politicians. On top of this, I’d trained to be an English teacher. I saw up close the pathetic scholarship and inane doctrines that inform teacher education in American universities. To me, unionised teachers were a convergence of these two unhealthy forces.
With luck it all crumbles into the sea.
Reconciliation statue at Arlington National Cemetery set to be destroyed
In the midst of the Black Lives Matter movement sparked in 2020 by the murder of George Floyd, Congress required the Department of Defense to create a commission to evaluate the ways the military continued to honor the Confederacy.
The duties of the “naming commission” were to assess the “cost of renaming or removing names, symbols, displays, monuments or paraphernalia that commemorate the Confederate States of America or any person who served voluntarily with the Confederate States of America.”
h/t Mauser
… My son was interested in learning Java programming through SummerUP. But when we got to the online application process, it requested he confirm his identity as black. It turns out the entire program is only available to black students.
You’re a bigot.