Arguing with certain people can be very frustrating as they seem to not want to engage with what is being said. Instead, the use of hyperbole, insults, and emotionally charged language are meant to infuriate and obfuscate with the goal of winning the superficially wrought emotional battle (arguing versus agitating).
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Saskatoon Hate
2 Catholic school administrators did damage to their city’s reputation by discouraging teachers and then parents from allowing their kids to attend a welcoming and inclusive space at a corporate sponsored event in their city. Homophobes and transphobes have been siding with the traditionally homophobic and hate-mongering church school system,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Parents Strike Back – 70% Absentee Rate on Pride Celebration Day
When school boards and school officials refuse to listen, concerned parents take action. Canada is a pluralistic multi-cultural society. It is the duty of our institutions to reflect the diversity that exists in our country. It is not our institutions responsibility to decide which types of ‘diversity’ is acceptable and
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Nicolas Banholzer et al. study the dramatic impact of COVID-19 measures in schools – with a mandatory mask policy reducing transmission by nearly 70%, and air cleaners by 40%. And Maryam Zakir-Hussain discusses new research showing the unequal impacts of long COVID, with
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: When They Start Talking About Ideologies And Agendas
… you generally know where they are coming from. “We must protect our children from sexual grooming and pedophilia. The sexualization agenda is robbing children of their innocence.” “I am a very concerned person who has done research on the subject of the LGBTQ ideology” . Thus spaketh Lorraine Hackenschmidt, described
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: Justin Trudeau’s Partial About Face on the Monarchy
Photo Credit: Reuters I have, for a while now, been critical of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s handling of the monarchy. Perhaps, surprisingly, he has done several positive things for the monarchy in a very short amount of time and it is worth examining what the effects of his actions will be. Approval of Coronation Medallions Trudeau faced a fair amount
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Cellular Phones in the Classroom – Disruptive
Let’s file this under common sense facts we should all know. Cellphones are connected to social media one of the greatest detractors from long term attention span and focus. Children are not particularly good at self regulation and control Thus, we should enforce standards of conduct around the use of
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: Coronation Cost Too Much? Its A Steal At Double The Price.
The King’s coronation this past Saturday went off without a hitch and frankly was a beautifulaffair. It is hard to believe that the British were once held to be rather bad at pulling off such highly orchestrated events. And, as with all things these days itseems, someone is worried that too much money is being spent. The
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Gregg Gonsalves writes that rather than spurring the development of more effective public health mechanisms, the COVID-19 pandemic has instead seen massive backsliding as a culture of denial has overtaken even existing programs. And Justin Ling points out the painful inability of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Red Pen Of Justice – YMCA Regina’s Campaign to Erase Women
The CBC seems utterly transfixed (ha!) on erasing women from the public sphere. The CBC news headline from cbc.ca. “YWCA Regina stands by trans woman giving keynote speech at [a Woman’s] award event amid backlash” We are going to go through the article and highlight what the YWCA aka
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Martha Lincoln and Anne Sosin discuss the lack of sustained improvement in the social conditions which exacerbated the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. – David Spratt takes note of the climate tipping points which are being reached much faster than previously anticipated. And Claire
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: Canadian Emblem for the Coronation of King Charles III
With less than a month to go before thecoronation there has been an increase in government announcements in regards to the various aspects of thecelebration. The Department of Canadian Heritage recently released the design for the King’s Coronation Emblem. It is full of symbolism regarding the outlook of the King and how he views
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Kellie-Jay Keen (Posie Parker) interviewed by Peter Boghossian – Gender Ideology Unhinged
One of the constant threads that runs through the discourse (as it were) around trans gender ideology/queer theory/self-id is the remarkable degree of ignorance surrounding the positions people who oppose gender ideology actually hold. Most of the time rather than acknowledging that there is a cogent position to beheld regarding
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Silencing Women: Academic Freedom and Unthinkable Thoughts (Full Event Recording)
Men’s rights activism whether happens to be wearing a dress or not, silences female voices.
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: The Ins & Outs of the Royal Lives Clause
Contract law is boring. But it is boredom built upon a strong foundation of people trying to mediate their relationships with each other via law rather than force. This makes some aspects of contract law, if not exciting, at least somewhat interesting. One such aspect is the Royal Lives Clause (or RLCfor short). But
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Pedagogical Considerations for Equitable and Culturally Relevant and Responsive Mathematics? – WTAF?
Critical Theory exists only in law schools… Just look at the absolute state of this. For reference this is what a non-full-of-bullshite curricular document looks like: You know what the first document is missing with regards to teaching Math? Anything to do with the actual teaching of math concepts to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Parents & Teachers – Educate Yourself about SOGI 123
Find out exactly what SOGI is and how (if) it is being taught to your children. Huge red flag right off the bat when you visit the website. It states – “Everyone has a sexual orientation and gender identity.” Gender identity is the risible bullshit that the activist Left
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Small Print on when you hear – “Just Trying to Live Our LIVES!”
The use of opaque statements like “Trans people are just trying to LIVE our Lives” is a prime example of the motte and bailey fallacy. “The motte-and-bailey fallacy (named after the motte-and-bailey castle) is a form of argument and an informal fallacy where an arguer conflates two positions that share
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