Brickbat: That's Not What I Meant

Following a public outcry, Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce has asked the Peel school district to stop removing books from school libraries. Earlier this year, Lecce sent all school boards in the province a memo directing them to "evaluate books, media and all other resources currently in use for teaching and learning English, History and Social Sciences for the purpose of utilizing resources that are inclusive and culturally responsive, relevant and reflective of students, and the Board's broader school communities." According to several parents and students, Peel officials reacted by removing all books published before 2008 as well as numerous other books they believed were not inclusive.
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Sounds like they didn't have time for Lecce's bullshit so they said, "Fuck it, ban them all."
I wonder what these woke warriors think they’re going to win from their revisionism and social engineering.
All living creatures evolve based on their ability to perceive and act upon reality, truth.
Why does this backward cult refuse to recognize the negative mental health impact of indoctrinating children with carefully cultivated lies?
The 'woke' [WE] gang RULES! /s
It's all about gang-building and having a ruling-class definition that gets to enslave/steal/indoctrinate/censor those 'icky' people in a pure democracy that has no LIMITS on the monopoly of 'guns' usage.
And one that funnels $6T worth of 'slave-labors' through it's system is quite a prize. That's $46,153 worth from each slave.
I don’t see any connection between woke censorship and making money.
If there is one, you haven’t identified it.
That's just because it's already happening right under your nose. Like a frog in boiling water; totally UN-recognizable but clearly there.
Do you see a government ensuring Liberty and Justice for all?
Or do you see a government doing wealth-distribution, funding pet projects via theft and gangland banning and regulating?
Woke-censorship is trying to erase any tracks of what the USA is suppose to be/was and claiming it was all racist, sexist and UN-fair/equal and the very reason for doing that is to implement exactly the above and MORE of it.
There was slavery, women couldn’t vote and neither were “fair”.
I understand that groups would want to be identified as victimized to receive special treatment, privileges and financial support.
But how do they co-opt the efforts of people who seemingly have nothing to gain?
Why do school boards ban books?
I believe in following the money to identify both conspiracy and motive.
“There was slavery, women couldn’t vote”
Brought by England immigration and ended by the USA (defined by the US Constitution).
“But how do they co-opt the efforts of people who seemingly have nothing to gain?”
Gangster-affiliation mentality. Virtue signalling self-importance.
“Why do school boards ban books?”
To erase history and write one that fits their narrative.
Had the civil war ended differently, slavery would have continued in the US. Flip a coin.
Forming groups (gangster) is human nature.
Perhaps group affiliation is all the non victimized woke warriors get from their activism. “Likes” on Facebook.
Critical thinking discouraged.
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."
Like the holocaust story.
That'll make doing lesson planning so much easier.
MORE ?blessings? from Commie-Education.
Put it into clear terms, this was "book banning" from the Left.
2008
0 ASDN (Anno Scelerisque Dominus Noster)?
Too late, they already burned them.
Getting mixed messages here. Are schools supposed to eliminate all non-woke books or not? Stop saying one thing and then saying another. Let's just close school libraries altogether. Hell, let's just ban reading and get it over with.
Meanwhile…
Some U. S. states adopted policies against schools being racist. They can’t tell a student (s)he is guilty for what other members of their racial group did, nor can students of one race be told they ought to feel distress on account of their race.
Trying to make students feel distress on account their race is, in other contexts, known as bullying.
So how does the disinterested, tell-it-like-it-is media report this?
“Schools can’t teach anything which makes white snowflake students feel bad!”
By some accident, they leave out the part where these laws require racist intent and bullying behavior on the part of the schools for the behavior to be banned.
And local restrictions on content which upsets whites is portrayed as simply carrying out state directives.
But of course, Education Ministry edicts in a Canadian province are totally not to blame for schools massively removing books. It’s just a misunderstanding!
I have to wonder if this was real desire to ban everything or deliberate malicious compliance, giving exactly what they asked for, knowing that it would cause outrage.
After all, the dictionary was written by old white ivy league professors. Let's throw that out too.
People of color and birthing persons are working on it.
step 1 published before 2008 as
step 2 discusses anything after 2008...
step 3 discusses anything
So Peel wanted to ban books?
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If Ron DeSantis does it, it’s a Ban, if Canada does it to “all books written before 2008”, it’s ‘removing books’.
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