Brickbat: A Learning Experience

Canadian parents and students have complained to the Toronto District School Board after students at several middle schools were required to take part in an anti-Israel protest. The permission slip sent home to parents said students would observe a protest by Indigenous peoples over their water rights, but it quickly evolved into an anti-Israel rally, and video from the event and eyewitness accounts indicate that students were given face masks and told to join in. Several students, including one recent immigrant from India, were also told to put on blue shirts to mark them as "colonizers" and "settlers."

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[mad.casual]

Canadian parents and students have complained to the Toronto District School Board after students at several middle schools were required to take part in an anti-Israel protest. The permission slip sent home to parents said students would observe a protest by Indigenous peoples over their water rights,

You know, for all the Joy and equality and 'love is love' and globalism that one side of the political spectrum kicks around, there sure is an awful lot of parsing as to which white people or colonizers it's OK to hate for what reason and which white people and for which reason it's not.

[Commenter_XY]

Take note: The antisemitism virus has taken hold of CAN.

[Vernon Depner]

"What could be more wholesome than that?"—Auntie Mame

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Teach Math

[Fist of Etiquette]

I don’t know, an object lesson in the clown show that is the identity politics industry might not be a bad thing for the kids.

[Chumby]

Canadia Parliament did invite a WW2 nazi veteran to speak to them. Yaroslav Hunka apparently is not the only one that made there though Ottawa refuses to post the list.

[Randy Sax]

protest by Indigenous peoples over their water rights

You've got the right to cry me a fucking river. Just cuz your great-great grandfather liked to wear face paint, dudn't make you fuckn' special. Get over it.

[Longtobefree]

Exactly.
The losers in war have no rights.

[SRG2]

Tell that to the Confederate states

[Don't look at me!]

What special rights do they have?

[The Margrave of Azilia]

It's just a demagogic talking point.

[SRG2]

Longtobefree said that losers have no rights.

I didn't say that the Confederate states had special rights, only - by implication - that they do have rights. (And they've been vociferous about it.)

Clearly Longtobefree was factually wrong in the case of Confederate states.

[mad.casual]

The losers in war have no rights.

Funny thing is half the time it’s not losers in war and they’re crying about some divine right, out of context, that no tribe, nation, or state recognized or would ever recognize (at least not unilaterally).

Like Christians protesting for their unfettered natural right to drink human blood.

[markm23]

Christians drinking human blood? If this is about Mass - and I cannot imagine anything else it could be - shame on you for entertaining their magical delusions.

[Mickey Rat]

That is not any better a reason to compel a captive audience of minor age students to attend.

[Don't look at me!]

It takes a village to raise an idiot, or something like that.

[Vernon Depner]

It takes a child to raise a village idiot.

[Longtobefree]

The village will take your child to raise.
-DNC

[Chumby]

The idiot will raze the children’s village.

[TJJ2000]

One of the many ?blessings? of having Commie-Indoctrination camps.

[AT]

students would observe a protest by Indigenous peoples over their water rights

How do the Asubpeeschoseewagong people feel about having their legitimate complaint usurped by literal nazis?

Also, what educational value did this have in the first place?

I hope the kiddos at least had a spelling test on the indian name.