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i am grateful
Posted on October 24th, 2020 – Be the first to comment Filed under: Dispatches, Patrick Bay, Pictures
chipping sparrow
Posted on October 18th, 2020 – Be the first to comment Filed under: Dispatches, Patrick Bay, Pictures
Sewerdale East
Posted on October 15th, 2020 – Be the first to comment Filed under: Dispatches, Patrick Bay, Pictures
Ciao Alberto
Posted on October 14th, 2020 – Be the first to comment Filed under: Dispatches, Patrick Bay, Pictures
Phlegm on St. Clair
Posted on October 13th, 2020 – Be the first to comment Filed under: Dispatches, Patrick Bay, Pictures
Non-caucasian = diverse
Posted on September 10th, 2020 – Be the first to comment
This little turd has been affixed to the University of Toronto’s St. George campus for well over 6 months now with no one so much as batting an eyelash. It’s still there now.
Compare this to the hysteria generated by the “It’s Okay to be White” posters:
They [one of the people who put up posters] wrote that “the reason that this agreeable poster has caused such a ruckus is the very reason why I think its an important message. It’s okay to be who I am.”
Althea Blackburn-Evans, Director of Media Relations at U of T, said that the messages on the posters “are part of campaigns around North America that are antithetical to the University’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, which are among our core values.”
In other words, it’s NOT okay to be white or accept yourself for who you are because “diversity, equity, and inclusion”. Put another way, it’s okay to hate, belittle, denigrate, and exclude, maybe even get a little violent or murderous, as long as your target has a certain skin colour (i.e. white).
This is “anti-racism”, “inclusivity” and “tolerance” circa 2020.
P.S. This is the URL that the QR code on the poster links to: https://www.staceyjenkinscasting.com/casting-call-new-host-ytv-the-zone/
P.P.S. Of course the role was eventually awarded to a non-caucasian because there are already too many white men on this show and anything other than awarding a role based on the colour of one’s skin would be irretrievably racist and discriminatory anyways. Obviously.
community
Posted on August 26th, 2020 – Be the first to comment
“Community”, 200 Bloor Street East
by Kirk Newman
“Diversity” and “inclusivity”
Posted on August 15th, 2020 – Be the first to commentPart of my regular morning routine includes scanning some of the dailies to see what’s been happening while I’ve been asleep. I tend to focus on news produced internationally because not only is local (i.e. Canadian) news irretrievably biased, it’s also woefully myopic. If I relied on them exclusively to tell me what’s happening around the world I’d be a very dull boy indeed.
But occasionally there’s an article, like the one in today’s Toronto Star, that inadvertently provides enough entertainment value to be worth a read.
Here we’re introduced to the work of the Founders Fund (not to be confused with the Founders Fund), a business incubator “by women, for women”.
At the outset it’s important to note that I take absolutely no issue with ladies supporting each other to build business. In fact, I think it’s great!
It sucks that a similar men-for-men organization would be screamed out of existence, this despite the fact that the growing inequality gap means that nearly as many men might also be helped out of increasingly abject poverty, not to mention increasing obscurity, but I don’t want to dwell on that.
What struck me as funny is the liberal use of words like “diversity” and “inclusivity” in the literature of the organization.
Really? Overtly excluding roughly half of the earth’s population is “diverse” and “inclusive”? I must be using the old, non-woke dictionary here.
I had to chuckle when I read that the fund (which keeps 50% of its members’ fees), supports “women-identifying entrepreneurs”. So it’s not just biological women who can apply for funding, it can also be any dude who’s willing to throw on a dress and call themselves a lady.
Honestly, though, that sounds pretty damn sexist.
Why would women need to wear dresses and even “act like a lady” to be considered women? I would expect that any guy walking into the Founders Fund offices claiming to be a woman, no matter how “cisnormative” and stereotypically masculine they may seem, would be considered for funding. Surely no one else, including any medical professional, has the right to override one’s self-identification.
It’s a funny corner this exclusively “inclusive” mindset has painted itself into.
The Star article goes over some of the types of businesses that are being supported by the Fund, such as Alder Apparel, which has chosen to focus on the apparently dismal dearth of “functional and fashionable women’s outdoor clothing”. A quick Google search seems to suggest otherwise but I’ll be the first to admit that the subjective world of fashion mostly escapes me so I could definitely be wrong there.
Although a number of prominent images on Alder’s site, not to mention many of those that appear in their extended image galleries, appear to feature traditional “thin, white and athletic” models (an image that Alder claims to be challenging), there’s a handful of differing body types and races on display so, I guess, racist patriarchy smashed?
The Founders Fund has invested in other ventures such as a pricey panic-attack app (which prior to the funding had for some reason somehow excluded “Black, Indigenous and people of colour communities”), athletic hijabs, something called a “a family mealtime experience”, a company that produces “gender-inclusive underwear for people ‘who defy gender norms.'”, and my contextual favourite, a “peer-based program to enhance students’ critical-thinking skills.”
Not mentioned is the fact that both the Fund and Alder, perhaps others, seem to be connected to Shopify, the same Ottawa-headquartered company that provided the building blocks for the government’s contact-tracing app.
I wonder if that “critical-thinking” program will touch on some of these subjects. Oughta be a hoot.
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