NDP's Leah Gazan calls MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ critics 'bigots' - "NDP MP Leah Gazan is standing by her use of the initialism MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ and denouncing those who are mocking her online for using the term."
Jonathan Kay on X - "Canadian here, with four (count em) points of clarification on the “MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+” thing, which has now escaped its absurdist Canadian genderwang containment chamber, and gone viral internationally:
1) the speaker here is @LeahGazan, a fringe minor-party politician. She’s not in the government. She regularly calls for dumb things, such as criminalizing anyone who dares talk candidly about the 2021-era unmarked-graves social panic. CBC types treat her as a serious person because she’s indigenous and because she always talks in the tear-drenched idiom of white-settler colonial evilness. But she’s not.
2) MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ is a mashup of two acronyms (each unique to Canada). Her decision to run them together is hilarious, which is why this has gone viral, but it’s not a common practice, even in rarefied leftist circles.
3) MMIWG refers to “Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls.” The problem of violence against indigenous women is a real and tragic issue. Unfortunately, a couple of years ago, a bunch of activists produced a ridiculous report on the subject that called it a “continuing” (!!!) “genocide,”and demanded that we all call it that. The whole movement collapsed when it was pointed out that something like 80% of the indigenous women who are killed are killed by indigenous men, which is very much off-message from the whole white colonial G-word thing. But the acronym still gets name-dropped when people are indicting Canada for all its infinitely genocidey genociding of everybody
4) “2SLGBTQetcetc…” Americans always ask me what “2S” stands for. It stands for “2 spirited,” a term that white academics popularized 50 years ago to give expression to their mystical reveries about sacred indigenous elf-people living in some precolonial eden-like genderwang Nirvana where everyone has three penises and five vaginas. No one is allowed to ask what the term even means, but our government made it official policy to use ridiculous words like this under Trudeau, so we’re stuck with it. Basically, if you’re an indigenous guy who likes to wear eyeliner, or an indigenous woman with blue hair and sensible shoes, you call yourself “2 spirited” on your govt grant applications. No one is even allowed to ask whether it’s a gender identity or a sexual orientation. It apparently exists in some exalted state that defies this kind of rigid colonial typology, or something like that.
Back in 2022, I read a whole report about how to teach two spirited concepts to Canadian students, and it turned out that even the authors of the report admitted they had no idea what the term meant. I wrote about it for @Quillette:"
Meme - The Pauls Pizza Airdrie: "Wings are half price every Thursday!! But full price for members of the MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+, so that they can feel special in our safe space"
"MMIW? Missing and murdered indigenous woman? Are you guys fr?"
The Pauls Pizza Airdrie: "they are missing and/or murdered then unfortunately they aren't getting any special pricing"
Woke Boston mayor hands out $500 haircut and massage vouchers to queer and trans migrants, refugees - "Boston’s woke Mayor Michelle Wu is funding a new program that gives “queer and trans” migrants up to $500 for massages, yoga classes and creative healing — despite the city being crushed by a nearly $50 million deficit."
Left fingers are defending this by claiming that this is a drop in the bucket. Weird how that same logic doesn't apply to CEO salary
Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” on X - "New math paper just dropped. It argues that children memorizing math facts and learning procedures is redolent of incipient authoritarianism. Abolish schools of education"
"THE SCIENCE OF MATH RECONSIDERED: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF FOUNDATIONAL CLAIMS"
National Trust worker who branded boss 'a white saviour' must pay £19,000 after losing race case - "A National Trust worker and sewing influencer who branded her manager a 'white saviour' after he asked her if she would like to join a diversity group has been ordered to pay the charity £19,000 after she lost a race discrimination case. Abida Jenkins, who is of Indian-Pakistani descent, lashed out after receiving an invite to join the organisation's inclusivity team from her boss Wayne Carter. She claimed the invitation was 'inappropriate' because she was a 'person of colour' who was being 'singled out' due to her race... Judge Dawn Shotter added: 'The Tribunal took the view [Mrs Jenkins] had an unjustified sense of grievance, imagining slights and conspiracies when there were none.' Now, a unanimous judgement from the Tribunal has ordered that Mrs Jenkins must pay £19,000 towards the National Trust's legal costs... After resigning from her role, the engineering graduate - who was said to be 'sensitive' to 'diversity issues' - took legal action against the heritage and nature conservation charity, claiming she had been discriminated against... Mrs Jenkins told a colleague that she was 'offended' by his requests and said she felt 'embarrassed, humiliated and very much degraded' by Mr Carter. Her co-workers attempted to put her 'mind at ease' by saying that they thought Mr Carter's group was an 'excellent idea' and that he had only approached her as part of his 'duties'. She complained to her line manager about the matter and Mr Carter was spoken to. It was heard that he was 'mortified' to have caused upset and said 'it was not his intention and he would respect her request not to speak to her about it again'. Mrs Jenkins said she was 'happy with the outcome and did not intend to take the matter any further'. It was heard in February the following year, Mrs Jenkins met with her manager Clare Brown and made several criticism about the 'performance' of her colleagues. By this point, her relationship with Ms Brown was 'breaking down'. The relationship 'difficulties' between Mrs Jenkins and Ms Brown 'came to a head' on April when they argued during a meeting over issues with the machinery at the site. Ms Brown asked HR to remind Mrs Jenkins about the 'remit of her role' as it was understood that Mrs Jenkins was 'convinced because she had an engineering degree she should advance quickly'. Mrs Jenkins, who was accused of using a 'patronising tone' when speaking with bosses, received a verbal warning in June for using equipment at the museum without supervision. In light of this, she submitted a formal grievance and then resigned. The employee took the trust to the tribunal, making numerous claims of race, sex and age discrimination."
How ignorant. The proper response when a minority tells you it is being oppressed is to shut up and sit down. Questioning minorities' claims is structural violence
Joyce Carol Oates on X - "anyone who says "academia went far left" has spent little time at a university department meeting or senate. in fact, anyone who says "academia" isn't on any university payroll."
Neetu Arnold on X - "2026 study analyzing 600K social science abstracts finds leftward shift:
🔹90% of politically relevant social science research leaned left 1960-2024
🔹All disciplines showed leftward movement between 1990 & 2024
🔹Disciplines w/greater leftward orientation displayed greater ideological homogeneity"
The ideological orientation of academic social science research 1960–2024
Thread by @ashleytrubin on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I don't think we (academics) realize how vulnerable we are. I'm not sure how much longer tenure will last in an era when a) we've lost the public trust (for a lot of reasons, b) college/academia is a partisan political issue, and c) college-educated white-collar workers are losing their jobs to AI. We are in an incredibly privileged position relative to others, but that privilege also makes us far more precarious than most academics realize bc it makes us a target--and the threat is not just conservative politicians gunning for us but the much larger group of regular people who don't mind if we get put in our place or start losing our jobs like similar others or being asked to do tasks we don't want to do. Because this wasn't clear in the original: it is not clear to me we can make the case persuasively that we deserve tenure or academic freedom. I think these protections are vital for knowledge production and are generally social goods, but we have also completely shit the bed in a lot of different ways. We're going to have to earn these privileges back. But the idea that we are uniquely knowledgeable or that we deserve job protection when so many others don't have it (and are even more vulnerable to job loss) is no longer convincing. We need to make a more compelling case, which will also require a clear structure in place to keep us in check so that people don't have to just take our word for it that they should trust us. Until we acknowledge our contribution to the lack of trust, the abuse of these privileges by faculty, and make the case of what we offer in the era of AI, our arguments to defend tenure and academic freedom sound hollow."
Timur Kuran on X - "Well said, but I’d go further. Yes, many academics dismiss public concerns about what universities have become. More alarming still is that many “progressive” professors expect to be back in control after Trump. Their current strategy is to work quietly to block real reforms."
Jason Locasale on X - "A friend recently asked me how faculty actually feel about the current situation. They drive to work listening to NPR, come home to CNN or MSNBC, and the younger faculty are on Bluesky or Reddit. The messaging they’re getting is that everything inside universities was fine until the current administration came along. That’s the fantasy world they’re living in."
Adam Fields on X - "This also describes every public school teacher I’ve ever met at social gatherings. They brag about reading Guardian and Al Jazeera too, as if that makes them more cultured. Unsurprisingly, they are all AI doomers citing data center water myths."
₿laze on X - "Why invade a country when you can just buy its institutions, turn its women against its men, make transvestites of its children, sell the wealth generated by its labour to foreign investors, then introduce a foreign army as 'refugees' and 'diversity' to finish it off?"
King Charles’ Easter silence ignites religious double standard debate as critics point to Ramadan message
Time to disband the Church of England, otherwise it's Theocracy
timdp on X - "bullshit … A Muslim tells others how to act in public? Nope, that doesn’t happen. You might insist that it does, but you’re not going to get me to hate Muslims. … like everyone else, they are polite."
RoaringBuckley on X - "If you refuse to watch and read nothing can help you. I am not asking you to hate anyone, I am asking you to understand it all better."
Muslim council chiefs ban 'tea and sandwiches' in meetings for Ramadan
Anger at council fasting request - "Councillors in east London have reacted angrily after being asked to observe Muslim fasting rules in meetings held during Ramadan."
Muslim Proves What We Have Been Saying👀🤷♂️‼️ #christian #islam #religion #shorts - YouTube (on normal Muslims all supporting the death penalty and other punishments prescribed by Islam)
Don't Eat When They Fast | Nigerian Reacts - YouTube (on a fasting Muslim telling a woman on a bus not to eat because he can smell it)
George Soros Allies With the Muslim Brotherhood - "New reports indicate that leftist billionaire George Soros is working to forge alliances with the radical Muslim Brotherhood by means of his financial contributions through a number of shadow organizations. Those organizations include the International Crisis Group, the organization behind the Responsibility to Protect doctrine under which the United States entered into Libya... Soros has not been so subtle regarding his sympathies for the Muslim Brotherhood. In February, he prepared an opinionated piece for the Washington Post dismissing American and Israeli fears over the unrest in Egypt, and even asserted that the rebels in Egypt did not seek to advance a theocratic agenda. He then continued his editorial by praising the Muslim Brotherhood for its efforts to topple Mubarak’s regime. What’s most ironic is that the Muslim Brotherhood would not support Soros’ vision for a one-world government. But The Blaze ponders, “Perhaps he just sees the alliance as an opportunity to side against his enemies the U.S. and Israel.”"
From 2017
Pope Leo XIV on X - "Communion between Christians and Muslims takes shape under the mantle of Our Lady of Africa. Here, in #Algeria, the maternal love of Lalla Meryem gathers everyone as children, within our rich diversity, in our shared aspiration for dignity, love, justice, and peace. In a world where division and wars sow pain and death, living in unity and peace is a compelling sign. #ApostolicJourney"
Christine Flowers on X - "I once had an asylum client, a Muslim Algerian woman who married a Catholic from South America. Her family tried to kill her for marrying a Christian. With all due respect, Your Holiness, you have no idea what you’re talking about. Stick to church doctrine, leave politics alone."
Mollie on X - "Interesting that Lutherans such as myself are specifically anathematized under the Council of Trent for believing we are saved by faith in Christ alone but Algerian Muslims who forbid Christians from sharing that Gospel are in “communion” with Rome."
Not that he understands church doctrine either, given his ignorance of David and Goliath in his eagerness to push the left wing agenda and condemn the Iran War
Roman Helmet Guy on X - "Algerians when Algeria became 13% French: “We should kill all the French.”
The Pope: “That was good.”
Frenchmen when France becomes 13% Algerian: “We should slow down the rate at which we accept more Algerians.”
The Pope: “This is evil.”"
Luis Dizon | Facebook - "WHY DOESN'T POPE LEO CRITICIZE ISLAM? Do you want to know what happens when a Pope criticizes Islam? Because I'm old enough to remember a time when one of them did (or rather, was perceived as having done so): Back in 2006, when Pope Benedict XVI gave the Regensburg Address. By all accounts, it was a fairly even-handed analysis based on historical facts, but it nevertheless provoked massive outrage in the Islamic world, leading to deaths and destruction of churches. No pastor wants to be responsible for further deaths among members of their flock. Yes, popes should speak out when Christians are being persecuted (and Pope Leo has, many times!). But they have to be careful about how they do it, knowing that the backlash and furor can be very intense if they aren't. Hopefully this will put a little more perspective on why the Pope has to play nice with those who persecute Christians. I for one do not at all envy the task that the Holy Father has been given. Tweet related."
Clearly, the way to avoid criticism is to be extremely violent when you are criticised
memetic_sisyphus on X - "The video is of tweens begging the man recording them to leave them alone. It’s clear the girls have been abused and/ or harassed before. But right off the bat if a 12 yo girl is screaming at the camera man to “leave me alone, I’m only 12.” We can get a pretty clear picture of who is in the wrong. Then the camera man is revealed to be a gypsy. One who has a lot of social media depicting himself as exactly the type of man who would harass 12 yo girls as they walk down the street."
memetic_sisyphus on X - "In the least surprising news of the day the Dundee knife girl who went viral a while back has given her testimony in court. She was being sexually harassed and assaulted by a gypsy brother and sister. Not shocking, what was shocking were the huge amount of people who tried to gaslight everyone into thinking the little girl was the villain."
Girl, 13, 'brandished axe & knife at man in viral video after he made sexual comments to her’ on Dundee street - "The youngster, now 13, told a sheriff she pulled the weapons from her waistband after being physically attacked by Ilia Belov, 22 – who denies all accusations... The teen told Dundee Sheriff Court: “He kept saying ‘come here sexy, I’ll show you how to have a good time’.” A cop told the court how CCTV showed a Bulgarian man shoving a Scots schoolgirl to the ground during a clash... He is also accused of behaving in a “threatening or abusive manner” towards her and three other girls, all aged between 12 and 14 at the time... She told the court Belov began speaking to someone on the phone, and that shortly afterwards a woman ran up to the group and assaulted her sister by grabbing her and throwing her to the ground. The witness said: “I went to basically go for the lassie. I went to go back and push her out the way and the laddie went and smashed my head off the pole. “He pushed my head right down. There was a lot of force. My head hit the banister.” The girl told the court she then “grabbed the blades” from her waistband. She continued: “When they were in the middle of kicking [my sister] in the head. I was basically sat holding them because I knew they were trying to go for her again.” She told the trial she had been carrying “an axe” and “a knife” for a few minutes before the confrontation and disposed of them before the police arrived... The court earlier heard evidence from another of the girls, who said she only heard the man call the first witness “beautiful” or “pretty”, but that he had “possibly” said other things as well. The 14-year-old said despite the girls shouting at him to leave them alone, he continued to follow them as they were heading to a bus stop. “He was about a metre away. He was following us. We were just minding our own business,” she said."
Lisa Bildy on X - "The "rule of law" is one of those concepts, like "public interest", that has been bent toward a progressive worldview. I think what the CBA learned this week (if they are capable of introspection) is that a large swath of the public believes (correctly) that the rule of law requires equal treatment of every person under and before the law, regardless of their immutable qualities, heredity, or station in life. That is the opposite of equity, which has been embraced by legal regulators, law schools, courts and bar associations across the country. Their answer, when challenged, is usually to call for more public education and cracking down on "misinformation". That's not in the public interest -- it's in the interest of protecting a radical ideology that belongs in the dustbin of history."
Canadian Bar Association's progressive agenda undermines rule of law - "According to a Canadian Bar Association statement last week, media criticism of a judge who threw evidence out of two different trials due to his belief that police were racist is apparently a “crude effort at undermining public confidence in the judiciary.” The lawyers’ organization didn’t defend particular judicial decisions, or point to any flaws in reporting. Instead, it implied that such criticism should never be published in the first place. If writing accurately about what the courts are doing risks undermining confidence in the judiciary, the problem is not the people who are reporting what is going on in the legal system. There is nothing mystical about judges that puts them above criticism. The public deserves to know how institutions are operating, especially when they are not operating in the public interest... The CBA is not a disinterested party here. In addition to serving as a professional organization, it also has a representative on the federal judicial selection committee, as well as on many provincial counterparts. That is, it has a role in selecting the vast majority of judges in the country at every level, including the Supreme Court... judicial independence does not mean judges or their decisions cannot be criticized, and responsible reporting and commentary of the courts includes details on who judges are. Our reporters and columnists have written numerous stories about the practical effects of race based sentencing, and other political agendas that have crept into the courts in recent years. These include the case of a B.C. man who received lower parole eligibility in part because he is Black, after stabbing his girlfriend to death. This happened even though the judge found the killer, Everton Javaun Downey, faced no “overt” racism when growing up. There is the case where the Ontario Court of Appeal overturned a murder conviction and replaced it with manslaughter, after reviewing the man’s Gladue report, which considers the background of Indigenous defendants. And there was the case of a Black Nova Scotia man who impregnated his adult daughter, but was given merely house arrest, despite the crime of incest carrying a maximum penalty of 14 years. Increasingly, judges are exercising their discretion to give lighter sentences to criminals because of their skin colour, principles that fit within the CBA’s progressive worldview, meaning last week’s statement can’t be taken in a vacuum. The group’s role in Canada’s legal system is also far more wide ranging and influential than Canadians might realize. The CBA is the biggest voluntary professional organization for lawyers in the country and has an outsized impact on how the law works. It intervenes in court proceedings, takes policy stances, offers professional development courses (a mandatory requirement for maintaining one’s law licence), speaks at Supreme Court events, and, most critically, as already noted, plays a role in selecting judges... Through its professional development offerings, it contributes to the progressive leanings of Canadian legal culture. In recent years it’s held dozens of symposia and seminars that relate to social justice, with some examples covering the role of diversity in staffing and decision-making of tribunals, how to protect diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives during corporate mergers and the use of Indigenous ways of knowing and “two-eyed seeing.” It’s a similar story with policy and advocacy. From time to time, the CBA also takes positions on contentious political issues. It is emphatically opposed to mandatory minimum sentences and from time to time appears before the Supreme Court and the House of Commons on that point. It has gone as far as arguing that race should be a consideration for judges in assessing whether a person’s right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment has been violated. It has supported medically assisted suicide for the mentally ill and for minors if they are considered capable of giving consent. It has taken a number of stances relating to trans issues: law societies should treat the deadnaming and misgendering of trans people as professional misconduct; law schools should fund trans recruitment and incorporate trans issues into their curriculums; all courts should adopt pronoun policies; that reparations should be paid to any trans person who was required to prove they had genital surgery before updating their gender in government systems; and that governments should cease recording the sex of babies when they are born. To those in the legal world, the CBA’s open politicking signals what views are normal and acceptable, and hints at what is not. It would be logical for any lawyer hoping for a judicial appointment to refrain from openly taking opposite political stances because that could harm their prospects. In this way, the organization is isolated from criticism within the walls of the profession. And so, with the appearance of consensus, the CBA is an important part of the legal culture of Canada. It uses that hand to push progressive talking points as though they are the objective products of expertise. And now, it’s going beyond its home turf to tell entirely different sectors how to operate... But what this latest episode has taught us is that the CBA struggles with the fact it doesn’t know where its own territory ends — and that perhaps its territory is too big to begin with. An organization with so many of its own internal biases should be careful when it lectures the media on how it covers the courts. Governments may want to more carefully consider who they listen to when choosing the judges who increasingly reign over us in the post-Charter era."
Tristin Hopper on X - "There are several choke points in the Canadian system in which unhinged activists are able to do immense damage without anyone realizing. The Canadian Bar Association is one of them. There's a direct line between their perverse worldview and a Canada where "stranger attacks" are a thing"
