This and that for your Thursday reading. – Simon Enoch studies how P3 projects result only in public money subsidizing private profits. And a new report from the Canadian Labour Congress warns about the dangerous consequences of privatizing public goods and services. – Amanda Follett Hosgood examines how the authority
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Dead Wild Roses: The Gender-Woo in Philosophy – Gendergate and the End of Philosophy – M. G. Piety
The profession can change, the venue can change, but the gender-woo methodology remains the same. Personally attack the person who dares to speak about biological reality, libel and defame their character while poisoning the well as to prevent discussion of an import issue facing women. The bullshit doesn’t change. It
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Julia Horowitz discusses how the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated wealth inequality in the U.S. And Jason DeParle writes that the U.S.’ temporary COVID-19 relief resulted in a lower poverty rate in the midst of a pandemic-induced recession than would normally exist – signalling
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – PressProgress examines the strong public support for the ability for all workers – including gig workers – to be able to engage in collective action to improve their pay and benefits. And Anthony Forsyth notes that the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Men *MUST* be centred or you are transphobic
This is Patriarchy 2.0 in action. The concerns of females in society are put in last place because a tiny minority of oppressed males are more important. :/
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Aaron Wherry discusses the dramatically different effects of the COVID-19 pandemic based on inequalities in income and privilege. And Katherine Scott draws on Canada’s most recent monthly jobs report to highlight the need for a recovery centered on women. – Meanwhile, Heather Scoffield
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: University of Alberta – Firing Kathleen Lowrey Whose Views Align With Material Reality.
How not to run an academic institution. My Alma mater is demonstrating some worrisome (read batshit fucking stupid) decisions regarding firing female staff for having the absolute gall of teaching the ‘unorthodox’ view that biological sex is important to women and their struggle against patriarchy. Her feminist views are apparently
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Robert Reich writes about the end of any pretense that Donald Trump was acting as a president rather than a self-serving social media influencer. – Branko Milanovic discusses why it’s useless to make modeled economic predictions in a time of complete uncertainty
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes about the need to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis into a new normal, rather than trying to return to the distorted society that existed before. – Sophie Ikura and Joshua Tapper discuss the other curves of ill health beyond
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ian Hilton talks to several progressive economists about the opportunities for change as we manage and emerge from the coronavirus crisis. And Andre Roncaglia de Carvalho writes about the importance of state planning in charting our future course. – Nav Persaud and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Today in Amazing Appeasement of Bullshite Male Demands…
The amount of pandering going to male delusions of gender remains quite firmly out of control.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The Book Dad highlights how labour unions can help to reduce the economic uncertainty workers otherwise face. Nicholas Kristof points out that workers elsewhere already have far superior wages and benefits to what’s treated as the default in the U.S. (and to a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Woke Left is a Lie – Meghan Murphy
A segment of the left has really lost the plot and gone of the rails. The idea that feelings are more important that material reality, that one should expect others to validate your personal choice and that sex is changeable have all originated from the political wing I used to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What is the LGB Alliance About? Q&A
(From Outnews) It’s in this spirit that we invite you to read on. Can you explain why you set up the LGB Alliance? In 2015, Stonewall decided to adopt an agenda promoting gender identity theory and set up their Trans Advisory Group. This meant abandoning its original mission to promote
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Surviving the Cult of Queer – From the Incessant Sentinel
Only by telling and retelling of stories can we raise the consciousness of others. Thank you for your words Incessant Sentinel. Surviving the Cult of Queer Grooming The general concept of grooming is often too narrowly defined. While, yes, we usually see it used to reference paedophiles grooming young children,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gender is Toxic for Males and Females? Whoa….
I’m kinda sad that basic information needs to be reiterated. Gender is a toxic social construct that is harmful to women and men. The solution is to get rid of gender stereotypes and let people be people with personalities. The end. It is that simple.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Violence and Misogyny That is Transactivism – Targeting Abuse and Threats to the Staff of Vancouver’s Rape Relief & Women’s Centre
Medium took the article down, but I’ve reproduced it here to demonstrate the misogyny and violence that is inherent in transactivism. This article drips with virulent hate toward women daring to defend their boundaries and spaces. Read the oh so progressive transactivists and their goals. Transphobic Fear-Mongering Under The
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gender is Sexism – Sinfest
See the series here. Oh, and transactivism in 4 panels.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Mike Konczal offers (PDF) a framework for responding to the coronavirus pandemic from a U.S. perspective. And the CCPA is providing ample analysis of the economic and social impacts of COVID-19. – Dakshana Bascaramurty discusses how the pandemic is revealing and exacerbating Canada’s
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gender ‘Therapy’ is Child Abuse
Bill C-8 as currently written is bad news for children and the female population of Canada. From the Post-Millennial: “It is a mark of cruelty to use the law to force confused, dysphoric children and their parents to embrace the transition to a life of permanent hormone therapy, surgery
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