This except from the essay “Intimidation Masquerading as Virtue is Chilling Free Speech” by Chanel Pfahl Brief overview of CRT In the simplest of terms, CRT is a particular way of looking at race relations in society. The term was originally coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, in the
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Accidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jessica Wildfire sets out the realities of COVID which are apparent to people on top of the flow of scientific news – even if they’re not being reflected in public policy or government messaging. Larissa Kruz reports on the strain being placed on
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Dave Yasvinski reports on the growing recognition that repeated COVID infections increase the likelihood of severe illness and death. And John Lorinc discusses how the ongoing pandemic should be pushing us toward a long-overdue focus on improving indoor air quality. – Sheila Block
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This excerpt from Suzzan Blac. This is where we end up if we forgo child safeguarding. No one deserves this. We as a society need to stand together and protect our children from predators. “I am a survivor of child sexual abuse, sexual assaults, numerous rapes and sex
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Of Course Racism is Wrong! – How Social Justice Activists Have Changed the Game
The words of a teacher currently under investigation for wrongthink. “For example, “racism is wrong” is an obvious, non-controversial statement, and what it means in the eyes of most people is that we should not judge others by the colour of their skin; everyone should be treated the same
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Destabilizing Children – A Lesson Plan from Ontario – Canadian Parents Take Heed
This is a guest post written by former teacher Chanel Pfahl. I recently came across a collection of lesson plans for K-8 teachers. I didn’t intend to spend hours rummaging through them, but one thing led to another. Created in July 2022, the lesson plans are featured in a “Back-To-School
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Keenan Sorokan reports on the unprecedented number of students out sick from school in the Saskatoon area, while Karen Bartko reports on a spike in respiratory illnesses among Edmonton students. And Andrew Potter writes about the concurrent drops in government capacity and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Case Against Pronouns
Excellent Summary. Connect ALL the Dots Exhibit A: The Truth Matters My fundamental right to assert the truth is the hill I am willing to die on. Here are some fundamental facts I will continue to assert because words have meanings and meanings matter: · A “woman” is an adult
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Assorted content to end your week. – A panel of experts has offered a set of recommendations to deal with the current COVID-19 reality, including a particular focus on the need for whole-of-society action rather than leaving a global pandemic to individual choices. And David Berger highlights how the facts
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: I’m Not A Biologist – Ketanji Brown Jackson – Retreating into Complexity Dodge
One of the argumentative dodges that ideologues like to employ is something I’ve termed the ‘complexity dodge’. Now to clear many arguments and many issue are complex and nuanced and do require careful examination and sometimes expert knowledge to fully grasp in their entirety. Legitimate expert guidance and knowledge must
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: How King Charles III Can Keep His Voice During His Reign
Earlier this month former British Prime Minister Liz Truss managed, during her very short time in office, to advise His Majesty not to attend the environmental gathering known as COP27. By convention the king hasa duty to follow the advice of hisprime minister even if pretty mucheveryone knows he doesn’t want to.Even now, with a brand
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Colin Wright on Ending Child Mutilation – Let’s Start Fixing Society
The transcript from his speech – My name is Colin Wright, and I am an evolutionary biologist perhaps best known for arguing the (now controversial) position that biological sex is real, there are only two sexes, the differences between males and females matter, and that women are adult human females.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Religion of Wokeness – The Signal Productions
The king is dead, long live the king!
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If reason is that reliable, why do we produce so much thoroughly reasoned nonsense?
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Evening Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Bob Becken discusses the use of “no smell” complaints about scented candles as a sad substitute for meaningful public reporting of ongoing COVID cases. And Aastha Shetty reports on a pilot project which is just beginning to measure air quality in a few
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Mike Crawley reports on new research showing both the growing number of Canadians suffering from long COVID, and its tendency to result in greater strain on our health care system. And Crawford Kilian writes about the dangers of voting against public health
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Dysconnected – What The Faux-Progressives Won’t Tell You About Gender Ideology
A must watch for parents with question about the social contagion that can do so much harm to their children. Streaming now at https://runawayplanetpictures.vhx.tv/…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Educators and critical pedagogy: an antidote to authoritarianism
Photo by Alan Levine/Flickr The world in which we live has increasingly resembles a dystopian novel. The dream of a more democratic world is diminishing as the global assault on democracy expands. The world is awash in the discourse of white supremacy, Christian nationalism, a culture of lies, and a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Transgender Ideology is Lysenkoism All Over Again
The parallels are chilling between the fatal bullheadedness of Lysenkoism – the denial of genetic facts and reality to Gender Ideology which denies biological fact. Go to Arty Morty’s Substack to read the rest of his brilliant article. “Of course, logic and reason tell us that biological sex, like natural
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