Hard-Left Racist Fascists Educating Canadian Youth

"Liberals basically feel free to say anything they want on any subject, regardless of consequences -- that's not an overstatement -- while moderates and conservatives and libertarians feel like they have to radically self-censor, if they want to avoid consequences for their beliefs."

David Hunt, research director, Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy

 

"We ... need to begin supplying, supporting and even arming the Palestinian and Lebanese forces that can resist Israel."

McGill University associate professor William Roberts

 

"MGill is aware of the comments made last week by a faculty member."

"When faculty members express themselves, they don't speak on behalf of the institution."

McGill University statement 

A banner in memory of Charlie Kirk is installed outside the Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix, Ariz. (Jonathan Cooper/The Associated Press)

 

Melia Bose of University of Victoria in British Columbia posted her sentiments in the wake of the murder of U.S. conservative Charlie Kirk, assassinated by a young man at University of Utah as he debated students, shot at the very moment he was responding to a student's claim that stories of American political violence were overblown. "GOOD RIDDANCE. The 'woke radical left' finally sent someone with good aim", in an Instagram post, the page since withdrawn. 

 

Universities have since become places where faculty, staff and indoctrinated students engage in statements akin to inciting others to repeat the assassination at the hands of a sharpshooter who had taken personal umbrage at Mr. Kirk's point of view that debates were a fine vehicle to address opposing views on any topic; a civilized, rational and effective method of communication, meeting head on those whose values and views have been formed and based on the liberal-progressive university environment of 'social justice', amplified by the hysteria of social media.

 

Associate professor Tawab Hlimi of University of Calgary wrote 'bullseye', followed by "Charlie Kirk no longer exists", pasting along with it a laughing face emoji, lest anyone have problems following his drift. Science professor Ruth Marshall of University of Toronto uploaded a post September 10 that read: "shooting is honestly too good for so many of you fascist c--ts." This same professor involuntarily placed on leave, once referred to a Jewish children's summer camp as 'fascist indoctrination', later denying her post responded to Kirk's death. 

 

Faculty and campus groups have been busy the past several years displaying their version of social justice, justifying and cheering on the October 7 terrorist attacks Hamas launched against Israel on October 7, 2023. On August 31, professor Hlimi let loose on his X account with the sentiment that "Hamas has the right to exist. Hamas has the right to resist". Even as the October 7 attacks were in process, a McMaster University faculty union posted a social media message cheering on "Palestine is rising, long live the resistance!"

 

An October 7 statement was issued by University of Toronto Indigenous studies professor Uahikea Maile, calling for repeated acts of "anti-colonial resistance". They just simply cannot resist the alluring opportunity to revile Israel and in the process renew their credentials as unbowed antisemites. York University law professor Heidi Matthews, within hours of the October 7 attacks posted "A lot of obfuscation going on about what the right of resistance looks like in brutally asymmetrical contexts". 

 

 

These comments vibrating with rancid antisemitism occasioned no professional consequences. Professor Matthews has been placed on leave, it's true, but she has been quoted since then by the CBC as a "legal scholar" and was invited as a 'featured speaker' at Memorial University with her presentation From Genocide to Unlawful Occupation. A former director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, Harsha Walia, celebrated the October 7 attack, was recorded delivering a speech praising Hamas's use of paragliders going on to slaughter young Israelis at the Nova Music Festival.

 

The fallout from that was a dedicated Toronto event hosted by the American Anthropological Association where she was feted when eight academics from seven universities convened at a roundtable "to celebrate the work of Harsha Walla". Illegal "intifada" encampments were established at University of British Columbia, McGill University, University of Ottawa and points in between at other Canadian universities across Canada. A Montreal anti-Israel demonstrator was photographed last November making a Nazi salute and screeching "the Final Solution is coming", outside Concordia University where mobs actively blocked access to classrooms and campus spaces.

 

In this biased, flagrantly racist atmosphere, rising numbers of students report their discomfort with the extremism surrounding them, feeling disempowered and striving to hide their personal views by self-censoring to avoid sanctions penalties and isolation coming their way through offending the views of faculty or university administrators. Recently the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy reported a finding that almost 40 percent of Canadian university students considered themselves moderate or conservative, forced to conceal their beliefs in fear of punishment by instructors or being investigated by campus authorities.

 

Ontario’s Minister of Colleges, Universities, Research Excellence and Security

 

Marginalized, Equity-Deserving Academia

"The training is intended to further your personal journey of learning and action, regardless of  how knowledgeable or experienced you are, so attendance is mandatory irrespective of previous training or academic field of specialization."

"[By session's end, participants will understand their own] unconscious bias [and] reflect on and understand how power, privilege and meritocracy lead to inequities."

University of Saskatchewan

Photo illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Higher Ed | sssss1gmel and Alexandr Baranov/iStock/Getty Images

"Mandatory Unconscious bias and anti-racism training" is a course at the University of Saskatchewan, one that reflects how most other Canadian universities view their mandate as institutes of higher learning, having undergone a radical alteration in academia from the original purpose of intellectual knowledge-gathering to social engineering, while still purporting to be fulfilling society's needs to produce highly cerebral-equipped graduates in their chosen fields of professional study.

 

The course in question was labelled with the official title of Anti-Racism/Anti-Oppression and Unconscious Bias Faculty Development Session. Hiring committees of the university faculty are particularly urged to participate. Course materials inform participants to expect that they  will be given training around "systemic racism" of the university environment, coupled with the manner in which they have benefited from unearned racial privileges simply by being white, male and (shudder) cisgender. 

Michael Plaxton, a University of Saskatchewan faculty member, whose expertise is based in criminal law and statutory interpretation, spoke of the course as a "mandatory DEI boot camp", a "forced march of self-discovery". Two readings comprise the course; 1) White settler colonialism and the myth of meritocracy, composed by Indigenous activist Sheelah MacLean which details how white Saskatchewanians owe their prosperity to "150 years of racist, sexist and homophobic colonial practices".

The administration building of the University of Saskatchewan is photographed in Saskatoon. Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS/Heywood Yu

"The myth that Canadian society is created on individual work ethic ignores how racially dominant groups gain access to social and political power", reads the course.

 

The second course reading is comprised of a chapter from the 2022 book Confronting Institutionalized Racism in Higher Education, the chapter interviewing five "racialized" Canadian university faculty, concluding the entire system is set up to benefit white people: "Racialized faculty are expected to have accomplished more, yet their tenure and promotion files are always scrutinized through certain deficit-driven lenses of presumed incompetence". 

"Anti-racism" linked to everything from grant funding to hiring, to promotion hinges at Canadian institutions on the embrace of the doctrine of "anti-racism" with a candidate's willingness to accept the  tenets of "equity, diversity and inclusion", their key to humble admission as a penitent striving to correct a wrong while pursuing higher education. An analysis by the Aristotle Foundation found almost all Canadian academic job postings contain a "diversity requirement in the form of a mandatory diversity survey where the applicant is required to divulge various racial and sexual identities".

Alternately, in some instances a position can be explicitly limited to select demographics, such as confined to Black, Indigenous or female applicants. Research funding has succumbed to the standard practice of acknowledging and ascertaining the racial or sexual diversity of applicants. Criticism of these new guidelines pointed out that the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada requires applicants to list identity characteristics of prioritized research assistants.

 

Traditional Canadian guidelines on racial tolerance advocated for the most part, for race to be considered an irrelevance. Anti-racism on the other hand, is based on the premise that any equality of outcome is predicated on a racist system to be remedied by special treatment for groups considered marginalized or "equity-deserving". In the process, needless to say, being straight, white, and intellectually exceptional reflects an outlier, an undeserving racist to be punished in the aggregate.

 

Similar to most institutionalized anti-racism strategies, the University of Saskatchewan's DEI Framework for Action has "equity" as its goal, as opposed to equality. It defines itself as "taking the range of human attributes and qualities into account and providing each individual with what they need to be successful". 

Anyone naturally genetically endowed with superior intelligence and the will to maximize their academic credentials is just plain out of luck of they're white, straight and representationally mainstream.

 

Aristotle Foundation

"A growing number of high-profile cases suggest that diversity workshops and their supporting materials regularly promote questionable claims—particularly about the overarching, malicious character of the majority population."

"Similarly, hostility toward those who challenge DEI claims is part of the pattern."

"In Canada, students who challenge claims have been punished or expelled; employees have been suspended."

"One whistleblower who leaked DEI training session material maligning the majority population lost his employment."

Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy