It appears a sea change is underway across the country, as many Canadians are questioning how and why we choose to commemorate historical figures with controversial legacies.
“Peak Woke”
Speech Is Not Violence
Have you noticed how our language is changing?
At a congressional hearing on “Birthing While Black,” nearly every politician used the words “birthing people” instead of “women” or “mothers.” Asked why, Shalanda Young, President Joe Biden’s budget director, said, “Our language needs to be more inclusive.”
Activists have also changed “equality” to “equity” and “affirmative action” to “diversity.”
The Associated Press no longer uses “mistress.” It tells reporters to use “companion, friend, or lover.”
Worse, certain speech is now labeled “violence.”
Now Cake Is Racist
Parkin probed by council for links between the cake and colonialism
It has been enjoyed as a Yorkshire delicacy since the 18th century.
But parkin – a cake made with ginger and treacle – will now have its international origins examined in a review of local cuisine launched to investigate links to the slave trade.
Connections between the cake and colonialism will be probed in research by Leeds City Council prompted by the Black Lives Matter protests, according to a report seen by The Telegraph.
How ‘Black Owned Toronto’ went from an Instagram page to opening its first store
Initially, it was just an inviting online platform to promote Black-owned businesses in the city. “My initial goal was to have a social media directory. I definitely didn’t know it was going to get so popular so quickly,” she told CTV’s Your Morning on Tuesday.
How Black Rifle Coffee Used Every Trick In The Book to Fool Conservatives
Black Rifle Coffee Company was supposed to be a company that countered the effete stereotypes of other coffee sellers. When Starbucks promised to hire refugees, BRCC pledged to hire veterans. The company ran a promotion donating free bags of coffee to police officers. Its products are adorned in pro-military, pro-police kitsch. Black Rifle was supposed to be the rare company willing to openly market to the majority of America that doesn’t enjoy riots, protesting the flag, 13-year-olds getting castrations or double mastectomies, and every other piece of the ideological package that has become America’s de facto ruling ideology.
Sike!
Black Rifle actually hates populists and conservatives. In fact, it’s willing to pay you to never be their customer again. That’s the takeaway from the company’s 7,000-word profile in The New York Times last week.
Tucker Carlson, Mark Steyn roast the new ‘pregnant man’ emoji
Tucker Carlson and frequent guest Mark Steyn lit into the new proposed additions to the emoji keyboard, namely, the “pregnant man” emoji. Yes, that’s an emoji of a person with short hair and a mustache clutching their stomach much the way a pregnant person would, or a person who had eaten too many nachos.
Liberals are Pressuring Facebook & Twitter to Silence Conservative Alternative Media
Despite the federal Liberals not actually getting Bill C-10 and C-36 passed through the House of Commons and Senate this past parliamentary session, the message is clear to Big Tech platforms; start throttling alternative media or face increasingly heavy regulations.
Trudeau says he would support a criminal investigation into residential schools
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that he would support a criminal investigation into the recent discovery of hundreds of unmarked burial sites at residential schools across Canada amid growing pressure on the government from the Indigenous communities.
MALCOLM: NDP stunt at Manitoba Legislature was the woke mob personified
Moments after being introduced as Manitoba’s new Indigenous affairs minister, Alan Lagimodiere gets interrupted by Manitoba NDP Leader Wab Kinew. Lagimodiere stares blankly and has no idea what to do.
Why must everything — from ‘Real Housewives’ to the NFL to yoga — be about race. It is toxic for America
“The Real Housewives of New York” has turned into a tiresome ongoing race spat, and has predictably been rewarded with record-low ratings. The National Football League is playing the “black national anthem.” That effort effectively rebrands “The Star-Spangled Banner” as a white national anthem and further divides America in what is supposed to be a unifying ceremony.
University of East Anglia To Cease Teaching Shakespeare After Declaring English A Colonizer Language
English ‘operated as a language of the coloniser’, students at top university that produced several world-renowned authors are told
Students at a university that has produced a string of world-renowned authors are to be taught that English ‘operated as a language of the coloniser’.
The School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia – which boasts Nobel Prize laureate Kazuo Ishiguro and the Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan and Anne Enright among its alumni – is to ‘decolonise’ its courses following demands from students.
The decision is the latest controversial move by institutions to make lessons more diverse – but critics claim it is ‘anti-academic’ and ‘corrosive’.
The Left’s Manipulation of Religion
Only a politicized faith is permitted in public life.
The policy of modern liberals is to keep religion out of politics while inserting politics into religion. On this view, the religious can only enter politics if they shed their religion and serve as mouthpieces for the politics of the Left. This explains the paradox of a secularist political movement that champions the “Reverend” Al Sharpton and the “Nuns on the Bus.”
“If You Do Not Have Free Speech You Are Not Free” – Refugees from Communism Horrified at America
Today in America there is a new generation of exiles from Communist regimes fighting a new political correctness, called wokeism.
Czeslaw Milosz, before he was a Nobel laureate for Literature and author of The Captive Mind, fought two totalitarianisms in his native country, Poland: first Nazism, then Communism, which took its place. In 1945, after joining the Polish diplomatic service, Milosz was appointed cultural attaché to the embassy in New York, where he served until being recalled in 1950. In 1951, he defected to France.
Meet the Newest Woke Catchphrase: Anthropocentrism
This latest woke ideological project is especially pernicious.
The nation’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association, held its annual meeting last week, and suffice it to say that the measures the delegates passed were radical.
One measure passed by the delegates warrants special attention.
The measure called on the union to issue a study criticizing “empire, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society.”
Toronto to officially rename Dundas Street and two subway stations
The ambitious move has been called for by residents and community groups for more than a year now and comes, in the City’s own words, “in an effort to promote inclusion and reconciliation with marginalized communities” due to Henry Dundas’s controversial and problematic legacy.