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How the ‘be kind’ brigade taught us to hate one another

How the ‘be kind’ brigade taught us to hate one another

Most people who have been paying attention will have realised by now that identity politics, which over the past 10 years reached unprecedented heights of fanaticism and compulsory observance, has had a devastating effect on race relations in the UK and throughout the West. Coercing people to label and perceive themselves on the basis of skin colour, to regard themselves as either oppressors or oppressed, has fostered division and resentment. The cumulative effect has been increased levels of racism and belligerent rancour all round, with everyone now seeing themselves as victims of prejudice.

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Newfoundland’s only university advertises five professor jobs that BAN straight white men from applying

Newfoundland’s only university advertises five professor jobs that BAN straight white men from applying

A Canadian university is advertising five research positions, but applicants must be a part of the LGBTQ+ community to apply.

Memorial University of Newfoundland posted five new Canada Research Chair (CRC) positions that are open to current employees of the liberal arts school, but there’s a catch.

In order to be eligible to apply, the applicant has to be a member of an equity group, including the 2SLGBTQIA+ people, a woman, Indigenous, a racialized person, or a disabled, according to the job postings viewed by the Daily Mail.

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Jamie Sarkonak: Serving Starbucks in English might be ‘racism,’ Saskatchewan court says

Human rights commission must reconsider case of woman who was refused service in Tagalog

In Saskatchewan, the authorities are currently deciding whether to treat Tagalog like an official language.

It all started at the Starbucks in Saskatoon’s Royal University Hospital. Vanessa Casila, a Filipina woman, tried to order in Tagalog. The employee taking her order refused, saying she would receive a formal reprimand from the manager if she went along with it. Casila then filed a human rights complaint, claiming that the “English only” policy amounted to discrimination based on race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, and nationality.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", Canada, WTF?

David Thomas: The nonsense around human rights tribunals is even worse than you think

When I became the Chair of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in 2014, I said some things I was not supposed to say. I made the observation that human rights tribunals had a bad reputation. This wasn’t received well.

In my first Annual Report to Parliament, I asserted that “Discrimination is not widely accepted in Canada. It is not acceptable to most Canadians to even hear a suggestion of prohibited discrimination, let alone engage in it.” I still believe that remains true today.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak F*cked Up", "Peak Weimar", "Peak Woke"

Pentagon tightens control of Stars and Stripes after blasting it as ‘woke’

The Defense Department outlined a sweeping “modernization” effort for Stars and Stripes, the independent military newspaper, according to an internal memo reviewed by The Washington Post, following up on a promise made in January to overhaul the publication and rid it of “woke distractions.”

The memo, sent by Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen A. Feinberg on March 9, says the newspaper “must modernize to remain relevant and viable” in the digital age. It also introduces an “interim policy” governing the newspaper effective immediately that Feinberg says replaces previous Pentagon instructions. That policy restricts the use of wire services and says that content in the paper, known as Stripes, must be consistent with “good order and discipline,” a phrase used in military justice.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", USA

Bob Gale resigns as chair of Niagara Region amid allegations over copy of Hitler’s book

Bob Gale has resigned as chair of the Regional Municipality of Niagara amid calls for an apology from local anti-racism groups that claim he owns a copy of Adolf Hitler’s book.

Gale submitted on Wednesday a letter to Rob Flock, the Ontario minister of municipal affairs and housing, stating that his resignation was effective immediately.

“Today, a member of the communist party circulated a dated document that listed my name as the owner of a historical book found in many libraries,” Gale wrote in his letter to Flack.

Earlier Wednesday, the Niagara Region Anti-Racism Association and the Justice 4 Black Lives Niagara issued a joint release alleging that Gale purchased and owned a copy of “Mein Kampf,” Hitler’s political manifesto, signed by the Nazi leader.

It’s an historic document. The latter day Nazi Karens would burn all of us at the stake on the flimsiest of pretexts.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", "Peak Woke", WTF?

17 B.C. Pride societies call for MLA’s censure, resignation for seeking to end tyranny of Kangaroo Kourt Human Rights Code

Seventeen Pride organizations in B.C. are calling on a member of the legislature to resign, citing a bill she introduced to repeal the province’s Human Rights Code as the latest example in a troubling pattern.

MLA Tara Armstrong rose in the legislature last month to introduce the Human Rights Code Repeal Act. The code protects people from discrimination based on characteristics including sex, race, disability, family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, political belief, and religion.

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‘Anti-racist’ dogma is getting people killed

Before he embarked on his murderous rampage through the streets of Nottingham in June 2023, Valdo Calocane could have been sectioned. But he wasn’t – because, an inquiry heard this week, he’s black.

In the words of Rachel Langdale KC, counsel to the inquiry, a doctor had at one point been “leaning towards” committing Calocane to a psychiatric hospital. But “the team of professionals” decided against it, after taking into account “research evidence” which shows “over-representation of young black males in detention”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak F*cked Up", "Peak Woke"

Julia Malott: Hair salon ruling a threat to the idea of human rights

A quick test for whether our institutions have lost the plot: if a clumsy booking form becomes a human-rights case, something has gone wrong upstream.

That is what recently happened in Quebec. A Montreal hair salon’s online booking process required clients to select either “man” or “woman” to book an appointment. A customer, Alexe Frédéric Migneault, who identifies as non-binary, objected. The dispute ended up before Quebec’s Human Rights Tribunal, which ordered the salon to pay $500.00 dollars.

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Identity, Action, and the Truth About the Massacre in Tumbler Ridge

The devastating fruit of Canada’s capitulation to hyper-left-wing ideology.

On Feb. 10, 2026, Jesse Van Rootselaar, an 18-year-old transgender male, attacked the community of Tumbler Ridge and its Middle School, whereupon he brutally murdered 8 people and wounded 27 others, before he subsequently divorced himself from all existence in the “deadliest school shooting since 14 women were killed in the Ecole Polytechnique massacre in Montreal.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting", "Peak Woke", Big Tranny, Canada

Cancelling a man with Tourette’s is a new low for the woke elite

If you ever find yourself confused by the complexities of the ever-evolving hierarchy of oppression, the ‘compassionate’ left is happy to fill you in. Certain identity markers – particularly race and gender identity – place you comfortably in the upper layers of the victimhood trifle. But having a life-inhibiting neurological disorder? That, it seems, gives you little more than the soggy sponge at the bottom.

This would be funny if weren’t so infuriating.

Clip from the film about his life

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", "Peak Woke"

Amy Hamm: Misgendering case an absurd waste of time and resources

An Ontario court has ruled that the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) must hold a new hearing, with a different adjudicator, in the case of a Black trans man who complained of discrimination based on gender identity and gender expression at a walk-in medical clinic.

Jordan Renae Thorne originally filed an HRTO complaint alleging he was “repeatedly misgendered” by a physician and an office assistant at a walk-in clinic in December 2017.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", Canada, WTF?

Terry Newman: Apparently, everything is discrimination now

A human rights tribunal has ordered a salon just outside of Montreal to pay a non-binary customer $500 because its list of services lacked a gender-neutral option. The tribunal’s ruling: discrimination based on gender identity. If the salon doesn’t pay, it risks being sued.

Apparently, everything is discrimination now.

Serial complainer.

h/t Auntie Polly

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UBC: Political Correctness Is Illegal, Say These Professors Suing Their University

Job candidates required to describe how they would advance “decolonization.” A video that suggests starting meetings by identifying oneself as a “settler” on unceded native lands. A political scientist who says he was instructed to teach game theory “from an Indigenous perspective.”

Each, a practice at the University of British Columbia, is now evidence in a lawsuit brought against the school by a group of professors who claim such social-justice efforts violate a provincial law requiring universities to stay out of politics.

The suit, filed last spring and currently under review by the Supreme Court of British Columbia, has set off a major legal and cultural battle at one of Canada’s top universities, in which each side accuses the other of trying to push an activist political agenda in the name of free speech.

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