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THE FIFTH COLUMN: The Argument for White Supremacy
It seems that the main argument of the white supremacists is that white western European countries would not have conquered the world if they were not superior societies. Of course conquest and colonization involved looting, pillaging, plundering, murder, and rape. This theory assumes that societies that excel at violent conquest
Continue readingWe Pivot: Open Letter to the Burnaby School District on #BLM
Hello, I was disturbed to see yesterday’s retweet of the Burnaby RCMP video greeting: This is a messed up world. White supremacy has been rampant for generations and with the deep inaction in BC and Canada about the TRC and … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: WePivot Is Back!
It’s been a healthy hiatus. Over 3 years ago, after over 1,000 blog pieces since just after 9/11, I evolved Politics, Re-Spun into WePivot.net. I wrote about why. A couple years ago I hit pause on WePivot.net, with my last … [Read more]
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Neo-Nazi sentence: not yet
The publisher and editor of the white supremacist, Holocaust-denying, homophobic, women-hating Your Ward News have been found guilty of promoting hatred against women and Jews. But, after a long hearing this morning Toronto, they still have not been sentenced. Lisa and I, who have been fighting these creeps in our
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Tomorrow in courtroom 504: the real Nazis learn their fate
MEDIA AVAILABILITY 10:00 AM, Friday April 26, 2019 Toronto – Standing Against Misogyny and Prejudice (STAMP) will respond to the sentencing of hatemongers James Sears and LeRoy St. Germaine, which takes place at 10:00 AM tomorrow at the College Park courthouse. Sears, editor of the anti-Semitic and misogynistic Your
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: White Supremacy Is On The Rise
Tony Burman writes that those who think the New Zealand mosque shootings were the act of a lone wolf have their facts wrong. Those facts show that White Supremacy is on the march: In the words of the Anti-Defamation League, the shootings in New Zealand are the latest indication “that
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: One way Canada can fight hate, right away
Talk is cheap. If the Trudeau government is serious about stopping the spread of hate, here’s something they can do this week. Will they? (Oh, and one Minister was looking at ways to bring back a version of section 13. Guess who she was?) The federal government’s words about combatting
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The haters and us
When word of the terror attack in New Zealand arrived, I did what many do: I turned on CNN, and I went to social media. Within minutes, I found the murderer’s “manifesto” and the live video of his killing spree within the mosque. Sleep didn’t come easily after that. I’ve
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: White Degeneracy
What passes for White Supremacy these days, Keith Kahn Harris writes, is actually something quite different. It’s really white degeneracy. That degeneracy is painfully obvious in the contrast between Barack Obama and Donald Trump: Consider the contrast between Barack Obama and Trump. Obama is not a perfect human being, nor
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Why Black Panther’s Wakanda Is the Black Utopia We’ve Been Waiting For
Wakanda, the advanced fictional East African nation in Marvel Studios’ Black Panther film, is the the Black utopia imagined by the African diaspora and its allies since the trans-Atlantic slave trade. And Black Panther is the powerful, intelligent and compassionate Black superhero whose time has arrived. The post Why Black
Continue readingWe Pivot: An Easy Test of Cultural Appreciation Not Appropriation, Oluo 11/18
Chapter 10 of Ijeoma Oluo’s deeply valuable So You Want to Talk About Race focuses on the how to appreciate culture instead of appropriate it. It debates whether white people can/should rap. It’s not about Vanilla Ice versus Eminem or … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: The “N” Word Debate Is Over, Oluo 10/18
Chapter 9 of Ijeoma Oluo’s awesome So You Want to Talk About Race focuses on the debate about whether various people can/should say the “N” word. When I watched Dear White People on Netflix, I saw a sublime example of … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Canada’s Secret School-to-Prison Pipeline, Oluo 9/18
Chapter 9 of Ijeoma Oluo’s awesome So You Want to Talk About Race focuses on how systemic racism in institutions like school create a recipe for failure for non-whites. This is one of the largest comprehension divides for Canadians trying … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Not Being Defensive About Racist Police Brutality, Oluo 7/18
Despite the statistics that police treat people of colour and indigenous people more unfairly and brutally, a reflexive defensiveness exists to discount that experience. When people who aren’t white complain about driving while black, etc., is our initial impulse to … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: White Men Need Intersectionality Expertise, Oluo 6/18
Intersectionality needs to become the most understood word as we wind down this decade. I’ve been thinking that for a few years now, but chapter 5 of Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want to Talk About Race deeply reinforces that. My … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Entitlement Mapping 101, Oluo 5/18
Fresh off of chapter 3 of Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want to Talk About Race, we now enter the check your privilege chapter. This is a critical chapter to ensure that as we delve into the rest of the book, … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Inevitable Race Conversation Mistakes, Oluo Day 4/18
I love chapter 3 of Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want to Talk About Race. It reminds us that our human/race arrogance is a deep impediment to making a difference in the world. Francesca Ramsey, whose voice is spreading more widely … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: The Racism-Power Intersection, Day 3/18
Let’s get into chapter 2 of Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want to Talk About Race! It’s been hard in recent year to talk about reverse racism, which I don’t believe exists. Racism is prejudice based on race, but there’s always … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Oluo, Race, Class and Priorities: Day 2/18
Chapter 1 of Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want to Talk About Race is called “Is It Really About Race?” In the debrief of the 2016 election, many folks have concluded that if we paid more attention to poor white people … [Read more]
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