Rally planned in response to Greater Saskatoon Catholic School leaked email | https://t.co/WL6g5VZMGW. https://t.co/KW1XD2qLAT
— Dennis Kendel (@DennisKendel) May 30, 2023
The "vandalism" didn't seem particularly vicious, really:Following the leak of a controversial email, Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools' downtown office was hit with an apparent act of vandalism Monday morning. https://t.co/RE9gOqQnyZ
— CTV Saskatoon (@ctvsaskatoon) May 29, 2023
The front windows were splattered with fluorescent paint and butterfly, unicorn and flower stickers, and paper hearts. The sidewalk in front of the office had a rainbow and messages like "we all belong" and "it's queer here" scrawled with chalk.
I was very disappointed and saddened to see the message from a Saskatoon Greater Catholic Schools superintendent warning teachers away from the Rainbow Tent at the Children’s Festival. It made me especially think of young people in the 2sLGBTQ community just trying to belong 🧵
— charlieclarkyxe (@charlieclarkyxe) May 27, 2023
Bravo to @fsinations and Vice Chief @AlyBearFSIN for standing up for human rights wherever the fight appears. The Saskatoon Catholic school board must admit fault and change. @GSCSNews #2SLGBTQQIA #skpoli https://t.co/RXvWdQEWft
— Janice Braden 🇺🇦 (@JL_Braden) May 30, 2023
.@CUPEsask calls for the immediate retraction of the Greater #Saskatoon Catholic #schools superintendent's email calling for a boycott of the Rainbow Tent at the upcoming Nutrien children's festival. https://t.co/DSw18CAOIu
— Amanda Vyce (@AmandaVyce) May 29, 2023
The Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation and @stoonteachers are urging all education partners to celebrate June as Pride month and ensure schools are accepting of all students.
— Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation (@SaskTeachersFed) May 30, 2023
Read the full release: https://t.co/USdU1lgPwr
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Squabbles among well-financed pressure groups over Catholic children attending drag shows are the visible tip of the coming iceberg. Heather Cox Richardson wrote a piece the other day looking at a WW2 message to US soldiers explaining why they were fighting fascists. Here's one of the key takeaways:
Fascists understood that “the fundamental principle of democracy—faith in the common sense of the common people—was the direct opposite of the fascist principle of rule by the elite few,” it explained, “[s]o they fought democracy…. They played political, religious, social, and economic groups against each other and seized power while these groups struggled.”
If that sounds familiar, it should. Tech billionaires are using their social media algorithms to amplify the loudest, most extreme voices, and drown out more moderate ones. Other billionaires pour money into pressure groups to support extremist policies they favour.
Pandering to extremists leads to bad public policy. On one hand, we get politicians catering to Taliban-like religious fundamentalists by banning books and sharply curtailing women's healthcare leading to increased maternal mortality. And on the other, we have politicians who care so little for women's safety that they include intact male violent sex offenders in female prisons. In my work, I see female prisoners and they're terrified. And rightly so - if the army brass housed male prisoners of war or civilian internees with females they could be convicted of war crimes under the Geneva Conventions. Public outrage about this issue cost the Scottish First Minister her job, but here it's radio silence from the opposition parties and the major media.
Extreme religious and identity policies aren't bubbling up from the masses, they're being imposed from the top down in record time with little to no debate. Make no mistake, our elites, who have never been richer or more powerful, are setting us up for authoritarian rule.
Sad to say, I agree with you Cap - I don't know what to do about it.
Trudeau and Biden and many others understand what is happening and are fighting it, but then people like Smith keep winning elections and it's damned discouraging.
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