The framework of the world we live in has been set. https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/publications/1960s/1965-repressive-tolerance-fulltext.html How Not to Resolve the Paradox of Tolerance
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The Maple Monarchists - Blog: 2022 Conservative Party Leadership Race: Views on the Monarchy
This article is a collection of responses from candidates for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada regarding the monarchy. It will continue to be updated as more replies roll in. I have again included a scoreboard for the candidates as well as a section for notable quotes. Questions & Replies The questions that were
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: Conservative Leadership Candidates and the Monarchy: Jean Charest
Just yesterday I received a reply from Jean Charest to my survey of the tory leadership candidates regarding their views on the monarchy. Before getting into the survey answers I will briefly go over any statements Jean Charest has made in Parliament or in the media. In this case very briefly as I could not find much. The
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: Prince Charles, His Detractors, and the Future of the Monarchy
Prince Charles Prince Charles has been sometimes criticised for the way he expresses his views on matters of personal interest to him such as environmental affairs. However, a monarch being involved in political affairs is hardly something that would doom a constitutional monarchy. Charles’s image is really bound-up with the drama of his two marriages rather than his
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What is it to be “Woke” ?
Definitional clarity is usually hard to come by with the social justice crowd. Thankfully others have taken up the mantle and done the work necessary to add form to the formless.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: How Can this Be University – A Thought Experiment
This is what we are going up against. The primacy of stand-point epistemology(1) versus the common reality we all share is huge barrier to overcome as any sort of argument of discussion can be had. I think this is the situation that we have to prepare for when dealing
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Will students learn ‘financial literacy’ or corporate propaganda from Alberta’s $5M curriculum ‘investment’?
There’s nothing wrong with a little financial education, but is that what Alberta students will be getting from the grade school “financial literacy” program Alberta Education Minister Adriana LaGrange announced at a news conference yesterday? Alberta Teachers Association President Jason Schilling (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). Ms. LaGrange said the United
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Trans Diaper Furry ‘Artist’ Speaking in Elementary Schools in Canada
As an Educator I wonder about the appropriateness of scheduling a talk in an elementary school by someone who gets off by shitting in a diaper and then drawing furry art about that very act. Reduxx has featured a piece about what is happening here in Canada: “Since then, Labelle
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Beatrice Adler-Bolton discusses how the U.S.’ debate over the most basic of COVID-19 protections reflects fundamental choices as to whether people should have even the slightest respect for each others’ health and well-being. Glen Pearson notes that a (however unjustifiable) willingness to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Sinfest – On Parenting and Safeguarding your Children
If your school has directives to keep information about your child away from you, action is necessary. Stand up, make noise and protect your children from age inappropriate ‘gender-queer’ nonsense.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Let’s Raise the Incidence of Sexual Assault against Girls – British Columbia Education at it’s Finest!
Who the hell is on this board and why do they think that the destruction of female boundaries and privacy is good thing? “The vast majority of reported sexual assaults at public swimming pools in the UK take place in unisex changing rooms, new statistics reveal. The data, obtained
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: “Transwomen” in Female Sports – The Famous Artist Birdy Rose
More please. This sort of refutation of transgeder ideological talking points needs to be everywhere. This is not about ‘being kind’ this is about recognizing the reality we all live in and BEING FAIR.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What they mean – A translation guide
One interpretation of what the Social Justice types are all about.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Critical Social Justice Derails Free Thought and Free Expression
Just gathering information at the moment about this worrisome trend in academia and other locals in society. But I think it is important to point out though that ‘being offended’ isn’t a valid reason for ending the career of a professor at a University. The notion that you being offended
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Critical Race Theory Educators – Defend their Case.
Breaking down some of the CRT dodges and rhetorical flourishes you will probably run into if you get to discuss CRT with a believer.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – George Monbiot writes that rhetoric about “learning to live with it” has become the go-to excuse to allow preventable tragedies – including the COVID pandemic and the deepening climate crisis – to go unaddressed. Joe Vipond, Kashif Perzada and Malgorzata Gasperowicz argue that
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Queer Theory is Gender Marxism – James Lindsay
James Lindsay purports to find a common thread among the new critical theories that have garnered attention in the United States and to a lesser extent, Canada. For the purposes of the podcast, he summarizes what Marxism is and some of the related terminology (including marxist-feminism 18:50). Different points of
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: Conservative Leadership Candidates and the Monarchy: Scott Aitchison
Another Conservative Party leadership candidate has replied to my survey. This time it is Scott Aitchison who is the MP for Parry Sound-Muskoka. As a refresher theseare the questions that were sent out: 1. What are your views on the monarchy?2. As prime minister would you make useof the Advisory Committee on Vice-RegalAppointments
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Diversity Versus Excellence
More fact finding today – It is interesting the amount of discomfort I’ve felt while reading passages like this. We’ve all been inculcated, to one degree or another, on how important ‘Diversity’ is in our society, yet have we foregrounded the wrong concept? The pursuit of excellence though, if
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Critical Race Theory (CRT) – What it is.
One hears about the battle going on in the US to keep Critical Race Theory out of public institutions. Rather than relying media soundbites of what CRT is, I figured it was time to go searching for the definition myself. As with most academic literature sorting through the palavers is
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