“Peak Woke” – Page 11

Jamie Sarkonak: Parks Canada celebrates a settler scalper, but slanders Sir John A.

The reason Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil (1702-65) wasn’t commemorated with a Parks Canada plaque until last week might have something to do with his history of raiding and scalping British colonists.

Beausoleil, an Acadian born into the dying days of Acadia, didn’t take too kindly to British rule. The Brits took much of the territory in 1713, snapping up New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in the resolution of the War of the Spanish Succession. So, in adult life, Beausoleil did what he could to terrorize the new owners of the land.

by Blazingcatfur•November 25, 2024November 25, 2024•0•"Anti-White Racism", "Peak Woke"

MORGAN: Wokeism is finally waning

Has the tide finally turned on wokeism?

Current electoral trends indicate citizens have had enough of it but we aren’t over the finish line yet.

by Blazingcatfur•November 24, 2024November 24, 2024•0•"Peak Woke"

Pronoun-Wielding Jaguar Boss Goes On Damage Control After Cringeworthy Woke Ad

Jaguar Managing Director Rawdon Glover is on damage control to end the week, appearing in an interview with the Financial Times after the iconic British sports car manufacturer decided to nuke its 90-year legacy with a cringe-worthy 30-second ad published on X.

Glover said the ad’s “intended message” had been lost in “a blaze of intolerance” on social media platforms and rejected the notion that the video was a “woke” statement.

“If we play in the same way that everybody else does, we’ll just get drowned out. So we shouldn’t turn up like an auto brand,” Glover said.

He should be out of a Job yesterday.

by Blazingcatfur•November 23, 2024November 22, 2024•0•"Peak F*cked Up", "Peak Virtue Signalling", "Peak Woke"

Navy to replace official Heart of Oak march with ‘more inclusive’ music

The Royal Canadian Navy plans to replace its official march with a new composition after deciding the lyrics, which celebrate British military victories in the colonial era and sing of men but not women, are disrespectful and outdated.

Heart of Oak, which is inherited from Britain and dates back to 1759, before Canada’s Confederation, is played at Royal Canadian Navy parades and mess dinners.

I’m going to practice my Chinese.

by Blazingcatfur•November 22, 2024November 22, 2024•0•"Peak Woke", "RCN"

Bud Light’s Shane Gillis ad shows the progressive revolution is over

There’s something perfectly fitting about Shane Gillis appearing in Bud Light’s latest commercial. Here’s a football player-turned-comedian, cancelled by Saturday Night Live in 2019, now helping America’s most cancelled beer find its way back to cultural relevance. The ad isn’t just damage control for a brand still reeling from its disastrous, boycott-inducing partnership with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney — it’s corporate America’s way of declaring that the progressive revolution is officially over.

by Blazingcatfur•November 21, 2024November 21, 2024•0•"Peak Woke"

Jaguar teases ‘polarising’ new electric car amid rebrand backlash

Jaguar has offered a glimpse of its “polarising” new electric car after attracting ridicule for its controversial rebrand.

The British carmaker has published a partial photo of the new model, which will be unveiled at Miami Art Week next month.

The team behind this ‘rebrand’ https://t.co/jHR6nndUW9 pic.twitter.com/w3tP3XxB6n

— Spencer Morgan (@spencermorgan93) November 20, 2024

This looks to mirror the Bud Light fiasco, silly bubble women far removed from real life promoted above their skill set.

One wag commented – Nobody wants a car with Tranny issues.

by Blazingcatfur•November 21, 2024November 21, 2024•0•"Peak F*cked Up", "Peak Woke", WTF?

John Robson: Woke, out-of-touch elite institutions need to cut the nonsense

Yet again we find ourselves scratching our heads, or C.S. Lewis’, over what they teach in schools. Like calling Remembrance Day a lousy time to wear a Canadian Forces uniform but a grand chance to celebrate Hamas, then stammering nonsense when criticized because they had no idea anyone might disagree with the sweeping decolonization of so-called Canada.

by Blazingcatfur•November 20, 2024November 20, 2024•0•"Peak Woke"

The real reason AOC purged her pronouns

She instinctively knows that working-class America detests the religion of woke.

RIP AOC’s pronouns. Yes, just like that, the kween of the bourgeois left, the doyenne of macchiato Marxism, has binned ‘she / her’ from her bio on X. Now people will just have to figure out for themselves that this person who was born a girl and who is widely celebrated as the youngest woman ever elected to Congress and who speaks frequently about her ‘self-worth as a woman’ is a she, not a he. Good luck, everyone.

by Blazingcatfur•November 19, 2024November 18, 2024•0•"Peak Woke"

No, Canada! — Trudeau’s wokester government embraces DEI

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service, or CSIS (not to be confused with ISIS), recently put up a job posting for summer students that stressed that the agency is “committed” to “cultivating a diverse and inclusive workplace environment” at “all levels within the organization.”

by Blazingcatfur•November 17, 2024November 17, 2024•0•"Peak Woke", CSIS

Geology is racist, claims university professor

Lecturer links science to ‘white supremacy’ and and colonialism

The study of the Earth’s rocks and natural resources is racist and linked to “white supremacy”, according to a geography professor at a leading UK university.

Kathryn Yusoff, an academic at Queen Mary University of London, said the hard science subject of geology was “riven by systemic racism” and colonialism.

She also suggested palaeontology, the study of prehistoric life through fossils, was partly to blame for racism, labelling it “pale-ontology”.

by Blazingcatfur•November 17, 2024November 16, 2024•0•"Anti-White Racism", "Peak Woke"

But It’s OK to hold Whites collectively responsible for Slavery or anything else you’d care to name

This is Deb Lyons Canada’s Antisemitism Tsarina educating the public that “collective guilt” is wrong. I agree it is but why then is it fine to collectively blame Canadians especially White Canadians for Slavery and pretty much any other “social justice” grievance?

Special Envoy Deborah Lyons walks us through common scenarios to help us identify what qualifies as antisemitism.

Awareness is key to building a more inclusive Canada!

Learn more: https://t.co/nc0mNmnD34 #DiversityandInclusion #UnitedAgainstAntisemitism pic.twitter.com/Yjod1jqztx

— Canadian Heritage (@CdnHeritage) November 13, 2024

I posted this because I am getting more and more frustrated with people who assume thy can get away with supporting “Social Justice” and it’s racist off-shoot DEI so long as it’s only Whites who are its target.

by Blazingcatfur•November 15, 2024November 15, 2024•0•"Peak Woke"

Geoff Russ: Left-wing bureaucrats finally come for Remembrance Day

It should have been obvious that the anti-Canadian left would come for Remembrance Day eventually. The bigger surprise was how long they waited before incorporating ritual humiliation and scolding into the ceremonies of Nov. 11.

Of all the holidays, sombre and celebratory, Remembrance Day should strike decent and competent people as the one above the culture wars. It is deeply dishonourable to shoehorn modern ideologies onto the holiday that commemorates and pays tribute to Canada’s soldiers, both living and passed on.

by Blazingcatfur•November 15, 2024November 14, 2024•0•"Anti-White Racism", "Peak Woke"

Dog-free zones needed to make outdoors less racist, Welsh Government told

The Welsh Government has been advised to create dog-free zones to help make the outdoors “anti-racist”.

Labour’s devolved administration has pledged to rid Wales of racism by 2030, and set out a plan to ensure “all areas” of public life were transformed.

According to a report submitted to the Welsh Government to steer “anti-racist” policy, dog-free zones should be created to make the outdoors more inclusive.

Sometimes mass executions have an appeal.

by Blazingcatfur•November 14, 2024November 14, 2024•0•"Peak Woke"

Michael Higgins: The woke takeover of Remembrance Day

Left to our virtue-signalling elites, our hapless leaders and our ignorant educators, Canada would have forsworn its solemn duty to remember the dead and honour those who served.

Thankfully, ordinary Canadians are less susceptible to the vagaries of woke culture and DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) policies, and understand that bravery, duty and sacrifice are virtues that require us occasionally to pause, reflect and honour those who served.

by Blazingcatfur•November 13, 2024November 13, 2024•0•"Peak Woke", Remembrance Day

To Combat Wokeness, We Need Karl Popper Back

The fundamental philosophical contribution of Austrian-born Karl Popper (1902-1994) is his falsification theory of knowledge. Sometimes it is contrasted with the ‘verificationism’ that emerged from the Vienna Circle in the inter-war period, arrestingly introduced to the English-reading public in A.J. Ayer’s youthful tour de force, Language, Truth, and Logic (1936). But the two enterprises are really quite different. Verificationism seeks to create criteria for meaning, suggesting that the meaning of a proposition can be derived from the way in which it is verified and that, therefore, propositions that were neither true by definition (‘all unmarried men are bachelors’) nor verifiable by observation (‘there is a cat on the mat’) were meaningless. When I was a philosophy undergraduate, in the atheistic environment of 1980s Oxford, ‘God is Love’ was held up as a paradigm case of a proposition which, being neither self-evident from its terms nor provable by empirical means, was not merely wrong but meaningless.

by Blazingcatfur•November 6, 2024November 5, 2024•0•"Peak F*cked Up", "Peak Woke"