Author: Sarcasticat

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Survey Shows Big Disconnect Between Public & Political Class On Immigration Levels

The views of many millions of Canadians continue to go unrepresented by those in power, on an issue that has a huge impact on the future of our nation.

Feds to spend $3.3 million to lecture “non-racialized” Canadians about systemic racism

The government’s marketing campaign will target so-called “racism hot spots” in Canada, which include places such as Hamilton, Thunder Bay and the province of Quebec. The government says these locations are being targeted because of a high volume of police-reported hate crimes. 

How Justin Trudeau Established An Anti-Christian, Pro-Islamic Canada

Within the spectrum of Canadian politics, there are few circumstances as misunderstood as the ideological affinities of Pierre and Justin Trudeau. Between the two there exists a shared mental malignancy which has for decades eluded our society.

Their manner of thinking— falling somewhere between presumption and arrogance— has extended beyond mere political influence into the realm of profound national transformation.

Wokeness Gone Wild

Wokeness may be the most absurd, harebrained concept foisted on the American public in our lifetimes. Consider just a few of the actions taken and claims made by proponents of this inane philosophy. Graduate students at Oxford University recently voted to remove a photograph of Queen Elizabeth from a campus common area. The movement was led by an American exchange student, the privileged son of a wealthy Washington, D.C., attorney. This should surprise no one since many proponents of wokeness are white, pampered, mansion-dwelling dilettantes.

Why The White House Is Probably Behind The Tucker Carlson NSA Email Scandal

As someone who worked for almost 25 years for U.S. intelligence agencies and the House Intelligence Committee staff, it is hard for me to believe NSA would so recklessly break the law. Only a small, trusted staff at NSA is part of the unmasking process. When a name of a U.S. citizen is unmasked at the request of a senior policymaker, only that policymaker is told the name and it remains protected in the NSA report. The unmasked name is not supposed to be released to other U.S. officials or NSA personnel.

For these reasons, I doubt that NSA personnel leaked Carlson’s name. I believe NSA provided it to senior White House officials in response to an unmasking request and these officials then leaked this information to hurt Carlson.

How All My Politically Correct Bones Were Broken

In my first 10 years of college teaching, from the mid-60s to mid-70s, I modeled myself on my best teachers—men and women who questioned my ideas vigorously. They let me know that I mattered to them, they praised when praise was due, and they pushed me hard. Often I balked, and they continued to push. Indeed, the teachers who sternly, even at times angrily, called me out on my intellectual arrogance and sloppiness became mentors and, in several cases, lifelong friends. I think of one in particular, an English teacher to whom I’d brought a piece of freshman writing I’d ginned up only minutes before a mandatory conference. I knew it was junk when I carried it to his desk. He stunned me, growling, “You get the hell out of this office. And don’t come back until you respect yourself and me enough to do serious work.” The upshot—I admired his refusal of my bullshit. I went on to take all his classes. Today, such a teacher would be subject, at least, to sensitivity training and, if an adjunct, fired.

But inexorably, questions of identity inserted themselves into teacher-student relationships. It became increasingly dangerous for me to question, to challenge, to push—let alone to betray frustration or even anger when a student was conning me or not working to capacity. Year by year, as I met each new cohort of students, I had to calculate how much my own disfavored identity (white, male, heterosexual, middle-class) made it risky for me to push—depending on whether or not a student’s identity was (given the political climate of the moment) favored. The job I had been trained to do—help students work with the nuts and bolts of language as writers and readers, as well as help them (in the best of worlds) appreciate the power and beauty of written English—became more and more difficult. Some students considered questioning and criticism racist—and the texts we read and wrote about white. Such thinking expanded, in time, to embrace a variety of identities.