Every Open Ear is an Opportunity

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I’ve been thinking more about Esther Betts. It makes me think about other trans people like Contra Points, Theryn Meyer, Mandy Goodhandy, Blaire White, Camille Paglia and so many more who are all advocates of free speech. They also serve as a reminder that not all narratives coming out of a community necessarily represents that whole community. At the end of the day we are all unique individuals and that’s exactly what makes each one of us special. I feel the necessity to place a distinction between opposing an ideology and opposing people. That can be a tough thing to do as some are so ideologically possessed that they truly embody the ideology. But the reality is to condemn a bad idea is perfectly fine but condemning people becomes much more serious. We must continue to strive to be precise in our speech. Rule #10: be precise in your speech.

In biological terms humans can only be born male or female. But I can appreciate that when we talk about what it is to be a man or a woman truly varies from individual to individual. If a male is born and develops gender dysphoria and genuinely believes they are more of a woman than a man and genuinely make an effort to transition into the gender they’re most comfortable with then I see no harm in entertaining that persons sense of identity. That doesn’t change the fact they have the body of a male. And one does not necessarily NEED to fully transition, like Mandy Goodhandy who doesn’t feel she needs to surgically alter her genitals to have the privilege of being called a lady. Breast and prostate cancer doesn’t give a fuck about your identity and is a good example of the importance to make such biological distinctions.

The more we fight with one another the less willing entrepreneurs are to taking risks. Who would dare open a woman’s only gym in today’s climate? And face the backlash of trans people, politicians and news media? Yeah, no thanks. Who benefits? No one. Who suffers? Women. Same applies to everywhere there aren’t accommodations. Until we can prove to the free market that we are mature enough to coexist then there is a 0% chance of anyone taking on the risk that comes with change. There is a reason why the gay cake issue was raised with a Christian bakery and not a Muslim one. The more I think about this the more I believe the real answer to all of these problems are to drop the useless tribal communities we all seek to identify with (like any of the million forms of feminism) and have face to face conversations. It’s not only way easier to talk but it’s way easier to listen.

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Has #metoo gone too far? Has feminism gone too far? Has this politically correct culture of mob justice gone too far? I think there’s no question at this point that it has. But maybe these things are forcing us to have a conversation that we can no longer avoid. And maybe there’s some potential good beyond that horizon for us all to get to a better place for a better society. If we can stop hating each other along the way. Let’s keep dialogue open because every open ear is an opportunity.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. -Winston Churchill

The Road to Hell…

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I don’t know if you’ve heard but China has recently started to implement their social credit system. I won’t really get into it here but basically it is the the allocating rights and privileges to those who can manage a healthy credit score which is accrued through social and economic behaviour.

What makes this system controversial is that there is no bottom to the score. Meaning the lower your score, the more rights and privileges are taken away from you. People are drawing the comparisons to Orwell’s 1984 because of its efforts to essentially “unhuman” people. So instead of waiting for a problematic person to break a law to enable action against them you can proactively nit pick and pull apart their entire life which can even extend to their family (like barring one’s children from attending school). There really is no limit to how far they’ll go to prevent things like being politically outspoken against the government.

But before you go thinking to yourself, “gee, I sure am happy that I’m not living there,” I challenge you to first observe what is becoming the post-modern western civilization. I believe we established our own form of social credit scoring only we haven’t fully implemented the consequences yet. But day by day we add one more brick to the great wall of censorship. Censorship of wrongspeak. Or the replacing of free speech with “better speech”. School uniforms are a thing of the past when true conformity comes from the self censorship that only the best peer pressure fueled mob justice public shaming can provide.

China gets the 1984 comparison because they already have their citizens at gun point. There is no free speech or any real individual sovereign rights. You do what I say or I’ll jail you and you then formally become my property and slave. This social credit system is nothing more than another order to be complied with like every other order that’s demanded of the people. They’re reaction is probably more along the lines of, “oh, you mean there is a chance I might be able to have things for how much I bust my ass already? Great!” For countries who have a foundation in freedom and liberty for all, it’s a hell of a lot trickier to remove rights and privileges that are already deeply seeded in citizens.

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So how do you get a capitalist to give up their rights and privileges? You sell it to them. There’s a reason why steve jobs was so successful, standing before a big crowd There’s a reason why Google has removed their logo “don’t be evil”. Tired of cleaning your home? How about a roomba who does all the cleaning for you? As long as you’re cool with it digitally mapping the rooms and uploading the schematics to a cloud server where it’s data is collected and only used to make your life better, I’m sure. Don’t have enough time to stay organized? Wish someone could just throw on that playlist for you while you’re trying to prepare dinner? How about a Google home device or Amazon Alexa to be your “digital assistant“. Now we can all have our own personal assistant, LOOK AT YOU GO! If you don’t mind all your smart phones, digital assisstants, webcams, mics, and all other “smart” devices to be recording your every detail and uploading it to the cloud for “marketing purposes.”

Right now Google is promoting their home hub device which will allow you to do things like look at recipes in the kitchen. Thank you Google, now I can finally modernize my love for cook books so I can stop feeling like a cave man! I mean, how many trees were killed to bring me my first world privilege of Jamie Oliver? And now Google has patented an AI “babysitter” system to “protect unattended children”. I mean, who am I to care if Google, Amazon and Apple are watching, listening and storing data on everything that’s going on in my house 24/7? “I’ve got nothing to hide, I’m not doing anything bad, this will only improve my life.” So it is fed to us and it is widely received very well. We went from boycotting unethically made clothing brands to not giving a single shit that people were working in sweatshops to make our iphones.

There was a story out of new mexico where a digital assistant saved a woman from a home invasion because it called the sherif’s office while it was listening to what was going on. Well, that sure sounds like a plus. For now. But now this is proof that your devices are doing more than simply “listening”. They’re also judging. And this takes me to the real thing I want to talk about here but first needed lost of word salad rambling to lead up to. We need to start asking what the cost is of all these free websites, services and apps. Ever Google search something only to find ads for it on facebook? Let’s not forget the Zuckerberg hearings. As AI becomes much more complicated we need to stop talking about chicks with dicks and start having an adult conversation about the companies who are designing this software. THEIR biases and how ideological possession manifests itself in programming. And why privacy actually matters.

The James Damore debacle should have disturbed us all way more than it did. Not just how James Damore was treated, especially considering he is on the autism spectrum, but the actual scary campaign that was launched against him by Google and the mainstream media. Most media outlet other than fox news would even entertain the idea of an interview with him but were more than happy to report on the story with a sexist tech-bro narrative. NBC literally called it a “sexist manifesto“. Hell, I even bought a science magazine at my local Rexall which featured an article on the sex differences in the brain and even THAT started out referencing Damore’s memo and how wrong and sexist he was and went on to say that though there are some differences in the brain, it’s very small. Damore never even talked about differences in the brain. It was as if no one had actually read the memo. A scarier thought is that they actually did. Thank God for youtube and independent media like Quillette. Otherwise the truth may have never gotten out.

The kind of social credit score system we’re subjecting ourselves to is one that is being sold to us in a means-justify-the-ends style utopian vision of the future. A future where sexism, racism, homophobia, all forms of discrimination have been completely eradicated and we’ve all become totally egalitarian where all men and women of all genders, ethnicities, and ages have completely accurate visible and ideological representation at all levels of the workplace, government, stores and entertainment. A world where we are able to literally shit rainbows and be free of all physical, symbolic, metaphorical barriers who would seek to limit or restrict any aspect of any wish or desire. A lot like being on vacation forever and pretending that wouldn’t become hell after week #2. When you put it that way, this marxism utopia stuff sure sounds like a great idea!

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But what is that kind of change going to cost us? What will the brave new world look like? Art, science and religion are going to be rather “problematic” for the utopia. So the first domino has fallen. Twitter has updated it’s “hateful conduct policy” to include “misgendering” and “deadnaming” as promotion of violence. Or incitement of harm. Whatever that means. I’m not about to start defending anyone who wants to call gender dysphoria a sickness or wrong. But should simply using the name “Bruce Jenner” qualify as hate speech? Hate speech is becoming so watered down that it’s no longer an accurate term. It should be called disagreement speech because when words are violence everything is just hate. I read through the policy and found some very interesting details I will feature in photos below.

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Now because twitter refuses to be up front about who exactly their “specific protected category” consists of all you need to do is check out who meets their own criteria for punishment where no enforcement is present. A great example of this would be when Louis Farrakhan tweeted “I’m not an anti-semite. I’m anti-termite”. If you’re not convinced enough even Chelsea Clinton called it out as dehumanizing rhetoric. It couldn’t be more black and white. If that’s not “promoting harm” against a “religious affiliation” then what exactly is? But upon closer inspection, you’ll notice that Louis is a leader at the Nation of Islam. If being a muslim grants Farrakhan “membership” in Twitters self described “specific protected category” then this changes the context of his comments and would provide a “protected status” on the grounds that his comments might have been “part of a consensual conversation”. I wonder if a priest or pastor were to tweet “I’m not anti-islam. I’m anti-termite.” if twitter would consider that a “protected category” as well. hmm. But Jesse Kelly was clearly worth banning, eh?

We have gone from it being controversial to suggest that there is gender identity that extends beyond male and female to now it’s controversial to suggest that male and female ever existed in the first place. I don’t buy for a single second the excuse that any of this is out of compassion for anyone. This is deeply rooted doctrine out of the marxist camp and if you look at the people who these movements attack, it aligns perfectly with who marxism opposes. And they embed their marxist principles in the identity groups they put forward so in order for you to oppose the idea you must oppose the person. And in the landscape of “white privilege” they have created you don’t need to be right in an argument if the optics look bad enough. But who am I as a cisgender, white, imperialist colonizer, oppressor, benefactor of privilege, normie, angry young male, mysogynist, biological essentialist, conservative, islamophobic, climate denier, bigot, transphobic, hyperbolic, dog whistling, rape apologist, straw manning, sexist, patriarchal tyrant, nationalist, racist, homophobe, cave man. What right do I have to criticize compassionate twitter policies?

Boyce of Reason

One youtuber who I follow who frankly does an amazing job of analyzing these culture wars we find ourselves in is the self proclaimed Boyce of reason, Benjamin Boyce. He is working on a documentary of the Evergreen college debacle. But he’s covered other stories like that of Lindsay Shepherd of Laurier University and other relevant developments in the news. He recently sat down with a trans writer who came out with an article (I regret my tactics at a trans rights protest. Here’s why – Esther Betts) beautifully timed along side of this twitter insanity which challenges the politics of “shut up” as actually more harmful to trans people. I will link below here a handful of fantastic videos that really help you wrap your mind around the marxist language of the extreme left:

Benjamin A Boyce: Transitioning from Radical Trans Activism with Esther Betts

Benjamin A Boyce: Gendering Violence at Laurier

Benjamin A Boyce: Surrogate Offendedness at Laurier

Benjamin A Boyce: Is Academic Feminism Literally Cancer?

Benjamin A Boyce: University Student Chastised for Sharing Statistics

So to wrap this up, I ask you this. What next? At what point do we draw the line and where do we draw it? There was already a leaked Google seminar about how they could use their power to influence people politically. Unfortunately that’s the one story I can’t seem to find so I can’t share it at this time. But I ask you, if our smart devices are constantly recording and judging us and this “progressive” doctrine continues to be promoted by all virtue signalling leftists then what about when our devices decide we have broken one of these social rules? At what point will we be unable to uphold the terms and conditions of what is considered the correct view points? What would that world look like? I’d have to say that what comes to mind is an episode from “black mirror” where they explore that rabbit hole. I highly recommend you watch it. It’s not about being right or wrong, it’s about removing the bias from the software that will some day be installed into the brain of the AI who plans to solve the human “problem”. We can only chuckle at skynet jokes for so long. Let’s not let chicks with dicks to lead us down the path of the age of ultron.

Black Mirror: Nose Dive (find it on netflix)

“Compassion: that’s the one things no machine ever had. Maybe it’s the one thing that keeps men ahead of them.” — Dr. McCoy (Star Trek)

Am I allowed to disagree or is that just prejudice?

Let me ask you this. The people in the picture below. Am I allowed to disagree with them? Am I allowed to politically oppose them? Or would that just be prejudice?

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That is a picture of a group who participated in this years pride parade. It’s a communist group who works with the communist party of canada and other student groups and has a lot of other affiliations with groups, including the NDP government. Andrea Howrath has seen that shifting the party to a harder left stance has awarded her with official opposition. Unfortunately this means she will be openly adopting a more marxist ideology into the NDP constitution. There are several party members and special interest groups who are pushing for policy to forward a marxist agenda in the exact same way that there are special interest groups pushing to counter that in the conservative party. This isn’t about committing a genocide against an entire group of people. It’s about weeding out ideas that are designed to break down our society. That is the Marxist method of critical deconstruction. And it’s actually more dangerous than Nazism. And it NEEDS to be opposed.

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I’m running on a lot of anecdotal evidence. I don’t have hard stats or numbers, I’m aware of that. But the trend is there. And if we cannot have a dialogue about ideas then we are doomed to approach whatever ugly future is ahead of us that is the end result of that game. I will be the first to admit that I voted for and supported the resolutions of a group I aligned my values with in fighting this neo-communist movement. But these are not special interest groups I actually subscribe to so I cannot say there aren’t prejudiced motivations between the lines either. So maybe it’s time I reach out to learn more. I don’t want to just be a part of another “means justify the ends” movement on the other side of the fence which could turn out to only do more harm than good all the same. So I will put my money where my mouth is and investigate this more myself. Rule #6: Set your house in perfect order. That’s what I’ll do. But with that, I also invite YOU to look a little more into these things as well. You may be surprised about what you find. I attended this conference on BillC16 (one year later). There are a hell of a lot better qualified people than me who discuss these issues that are apparently genocide for even discussing.

These issues are very complex. Despite the simplicity in the narratives you hear being reported. We live in unusual times with influencing factors that we are not fully aware of the implications they have on our lives. Because of social media we are constantly bombarded by ads and propaganda and unsavoury sentiments and images every single minute of every single day. Most of us do not watch the news. And the majority of us do not watch the news because it depresses us. I believe it depresses us because we are constantly running on overload and cannot intake anymore data because we are literally fatigued. Disaster fatigue, information fatigue, technology fatigue, outrage fatigue, call it whatever you want.

However, I think the last 10 years of technological advance has crippled our collective ability to handle reality. We undervalue our sleep and start our days half dead at best. We take on more stress without even entertaining methods of coping or managing that stress so we are prone to creating positive feedback loops which make the stress impact us greater. We simply do not exist unless we exist through some form of digital avatar online. Whether it be our instagram account, our twitter, our snapchat or facebook. The only part of us we are willing to show the world is our “BEST” self. And we do it for the likes, the retweets, the upvotes, the follows, the praise in the comment section. Courtship has been reduced to swiping right or left and an orgasm is today’s handshake. Is that what this grand sexual liberation movement intended? And we’re not afraid to hide behind the hundreds of filters available to highlight our superficial attributes. And the world becomes smaller and smaller as we become further and further detached from the real us outside in the real world, sitting by our lonesome, on a little phone that means more to us than the world itself.

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We don’t even discuss what impact all of this has on us. But if you look at other addictions you start to see a similarity in symptoms. To be addicted to porn is to chase a greater high. Alcohol addiction is chasing a greater high. Drug addiction is chasing a greater high. Addiction is a psychological and physical inability to stop consuming a chemical, drug, activity, or substance, even though it is causing psychological and physical harm (as per the medicalnewstoday.com).

The story of Icarus comes to mind. Banished to the centre of a labyrinth by their king, his father Daedalus applies his skill as an inventor to build wings out of wax so that they can escape, but showing his bravado, Icarus takes off with the wings. However, when he flies too close to the sun, the wings melt and he crashes to his death. Can Icarus be a symbol of addiction itself? Are we Icarus? It makes me think of that story about that guy, Richard Russell, who stole that fighter jet, do you remember that story? Po The Person Youtube channel.

I rewatch this video from time to time and everytime I watch it or think about it I actually start to cry. There’s just something so intensely tragic about it to me. And yet something so deeply, deeply true to it. Symbolically true, metaphorically true, literally true. The guy steals a fucking jet fighter. Some Joe-six-pack nobody infiltrated the US Army and #becausevideogames was able to fly that plane into the sky and even perform stunts with it. He did it so he could feel something that was missing in his heart. I think he became so detached from life, the world, from spirituality itself that he accomplished the near impossible just to be able feel alive. How dead do you have to be to become that desperate to NEED to feel ANYTHING? God, it’s so sad. And I wonder if there’s a Richard Russell in all of us. If we’re all just Icarus. Chasing that greater high.

At some point we are going to need to decide which philosophy we’re going to adopt. A very much blue pill, red pill situation. There are many philosophies that contain all unique perspectives and values but I truly believe that big ugly thing awaiting will be a distillation to two simple tribes. Let’s call them the Right Tribe and the Left Tribe. I do believe that this movement will not allow anyone to stay out of it. If you’re not with a tribe, you’re against the tribe.

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I’m a centrist, I always have been, I don’t like this at all. I believe in free speech because I think there is a role for ALL philosophies. And I truly believe that the best way to fight “hate speech” is to utilize free speech to expose the bad ideas from within. But something has changed. What I see is a real effort to not just throw the baby out with the bathwater, but all of society along with it. And I’m participating in hopes that once this populist movement of outrage is over we can return to the centre and to not giving a shit about any politics. But my observations are leading me to believe that quite simply put, if you want to expose and fix the problems with society then you’ll find yourself in the Right Tribe.

If you’ve lost your faith in society and believe that society needs to be torn down and rebuilt from the ground up then you will find yourself in the Left Tribe. Whether you like it or not. And it runs way deeper than politics. WAY deeper than any LBGTQ issue. It’s way closer to a trans-human issue than it is a trans-gender issue and with how quickly AI is advancing, we as humans may not even have enough time to get to the bottom of it. There is a storm brewing at the spiritual level and it’s manifesting itself right now through political movements. Trump beat the algorithm. And if he goes down in history for anything, It’ll be that. Despite all the negative shit. But it’s the post trump era I’m worried about. And it has yet to truly rear it’s ugly head. So I ask you this, how solid is the foundation of your faith?

And so I’m working to lay out the ground work to prove to everyone that our society is GOOD despite its flaws and it’s WORTH saving and if we can save it and fix it, then I truly believe our children will get to see a time of peace that we can only dream of. I truly do not believe that hitting the giant red reset button will solve ANY problems. It will ONLY create more. You CANNOT transfer or exchange suffering, you can ONLY create it. As I work on my writing, as I do more thinking, more studying, more listening, I will eventually expose this all in, hopefully, a very articulate, clear way that enables everyone to stand together in solidarity for our future together.

“Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit.”

― Jim C. Hines

Narrative Based Activism is not News

Ontario PC Party passes resolution to debate recognition of gender identity – Global News

Resolution to do away with gender identity moves forward at Tory convention – City News

Ontario’s PC party passed a non-binding resolution on Saturday calling for education around gender identity to be removed from Ontario schools, prompting critics to deride the move as an attack against transgender people – CBC

The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, led by Premier Doug Ford, passed a controversial policy resolution this weekend that does not recognize gender identity. – CTV News

Ford pledges to stop motion that calls for gender identity to be removed from the health curriculum – The Toronto Star

Doug Ford says PC party proposal that declares gender identity a ‘Liberal ideology’ won’t go ahead – The National Post

The resolution, proposed at the PC party convention, was slammed as transphobic – The Huffington Post

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I attended the Ontario PC convention last weekend and from the monday morning headlines among the mainstream media you’d think it was a front for a clan rally. But somehow in just the last couple of years we have gone from it being controversial to suggest that sexual identity could extend beyond mere male and female to it now being controversial to suggest that male and female ever existed in the first place. And to suggest such things are bigotry. Well, as someone who attended the convention I’d like to give my first hand accounts of the events that took place. Also address the allegations from Jim Karahajackass that the election was rigged. TVO Agenda Interview with Jim Karahalios

“I’m a breathing human being that exists,” Carver said.

“I’m not an ideology. And neither are the rest of our community.”

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Carver says even debating this is in contravention of Ontario human rights laws.

“After the roll back of the sex-ed curriculum that’s taken place, and now you see that they would like to remove gender identity and trans identities completely from the schools, it kind of shows the tone that this party is willing to take,” she said.

“It makes organizations and communities like ours very afraid of what this is going to look like going forward.”

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There was a hell of a lot that happened over the weekend but you wouldn’t know it given that almost every single media reported on one line of resolution brought before delegates by Tanya Granic Allen. Now, there’s a LOT that I can say to rebut the stories but let’s face facts, the current news is a dying media and they thrive off of click bait based stories. They feed off your outrage and drink your tears. I’m not about to call the media “the enemy of the people” or any bull crap like that. Conservatives are no longer opposition, they’re the ones sitting on the throne now. With an almost super majority too. So next election we won’t have the benefit of “change” to campaign on. So it’s important we listen carefully to what everyone is saying, even if we disagree, even if they’re fabrications of the truth. The conservatives have lots of time yet ahead to respond in whatever way they want. But that being said, if this is what the media took away from the convention then frankly it’s just too bad that they’re not mature enough to have a discussion about any other very important topics which we, as a society, will need to address over the next 3 years.

Since the election I’ve made a point to keep in touch with the party and attended a local party meeting where I put my name forward to become a delegate. Luckily I made enough friends through volunteering that others were willing to vote for me and I became a delegate to represent the Mississauga Center riding. This role enables me to participate in conventions and participate in the voting process. Having an actual voice from within the party could be an opportunity to build bridges between those who oppose the government and a party who claims to be of the people. Because I truly do believe that this government can actually have EVERYONE’S interests at heart. But waking up to see the kind of headlines I saw monday really opens my eyes to the uphill battle the whole party has ahead of it. But this does not surprise any conservative. Nor does it discourage us from wanting to reach out and welcome everyone to give the party a chance. Regardless your political stripes, after 15 years of one government, we can all agree that new faces and fresh ideas can be healthy for the province. And with the province getting further and further in debt, with yet more jobs leaving the province and having hallway healthcare, we ALL felt there could be improvements to the way this province was being governed. Even if some of us are too stubborn to admit it.

Well the new government is here and if nothing else, they’ve proven that they’re willing to work their butts off to get shit done. They’re giving it their all to deal with all our baggage NOW, TODAY, instead of leaving it for our children and grandchildren to deal with. But dealing with that is going to take ACTUAL leadership. The kind of leadership that means making unpopular decisions. And that’s just that much more contentious when we live in such a populist age. But conservatives understand that we are adaptable, strong people who would gladly carry today’s burden if it meant opportunity for our future generations. Because it won’t just be debt they’ll be dealing with. It’ll be a landscape of complete automation takeover. We haven’t even been mature enough to discuss the implications of social media’s impact on society let alone what the impact automation innovation will have on our economy. We have more students in postsecondary than ever before at the brink of the dawn of modernization. And that conversation isn’t on ANY media’s radar. It’s not even a priority on a list of things to consider. And that’s how we’re already failing the next generation. Just like the last generation failed us by pushing postsecondary and discouraging skilled trades.

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What I CAN tell you are some of the things that the media decided was irrelevant to cover:

– Ford announced that people earning less than $30 000 per year won’t pay income tax
– Christine Elliot (Deputy Premier and Minister of Health and Long-Term Care) and Lisa MacLeoud (ministry of children, community and social services and minister responsible for women’s issues) tabled an open forum on issues involving their affairs where they took questions. They discussed the overlap between their ministries and how ministers would be working together on many issues to break a culture of segregated duties that left a lot of people in the lurch over “that’s not my job”. And how eliminating red tape and layers of bureaucracy would help open up ministers to getting more directly involved with constituents and getting more hands on with tackling the problems.

Find me one single news report that mentioned anything about human trafficking and I will give you $100. Because Mrs. McLeod declared that Ontario is under a human trafficking crisis. Many girls involved as young as 11 years old. Did you see any reference to that in any news feeds? She also addressed staggering rates of high school and postsecondary drop outs. So that’s on the table to investigate more. And Mrs. Elliott declared they were on point to opening 1000 spaces for hospitals for this year’s flu season. Apparently there are going to be more announcements on this stuff on thursday. So stay tuned.

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– A few of the other resolutions that we voted on included initiatives to promote students pursuing skilled trades (FINALLY THANK GOD) and apparently they’ll be coming out with a more expansive plan to open the trades up so there aren’t such strict regulations around taking on apprentices. I’ve only been waiting for ANY acknowledgement for trade jobs since I started my apprenticeship back in 2006. Until now the only thing was a $1000 grant you could apply to for passing plumbing college courses.
– We voted on other resolutions to promote farming and there were talks about utilizing migrants skilled in agriculture to help grow rural Ontario
– We voted on a resolution to improve community based policing. To recognize that people who live around the Jane and Finch community have different needs than other communities 20 minutes outside in any direction, let alone the differences between suburban Ontario, rural Ontario and downtown cores. In today’s anti-cop culture, this is something we need to address.

And then there was the Tanya Granic Allen resolutions. There were several of them. And the vast majority them on saturday were based around the school curriculum and Kathleen wynne policies and bill89. (Bill89 Interpretation) They were to create a parental bill of rights, which I’m sure first nations people would have appreciated back in the residential school days. Another was to acknowledge parents as the first educators of their children. Stuff that should be common sense but after the assault on the family that was the kathleen wynne government, it’s now necessary for political parties to openly declare their positions on the role of the family. This included an acknowledgement that parents are the first educators of their children. Which is absolutely true! In what world are parents not responsible to raise and inform their children to prepare them for a diverse, modern world? But none of those make for good headlines when you’re trying to outrage your readers I guess. And very counter narrative to be portraying conservatives as protecting rights to cultural traditions and values.

It was papa Trudeau who famously said, “there’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.” And we’re just saying that actually extends to the rest of the house. And then I was thrilled to vote to repeal Bill89 to revert the amendments to the child services act back to how it was before Kathleen Wynne decided that she had the right to remove your kids if you failed to affirm their gender transition, regardless the age. Yeah, we don’t let 5 year old boys walk into the doctor’s office to get a vasectomy or a 5 year old girl getting her tubes tied but God forbid you don’t hook them up to puberty blockers because they claimed they identified more with the opposing gender.

And this is where things get controversial. Not because there’s anything controversial with not wanting to treat your child as a social experiment, but because there are people who actually believe this is an acceptable way to treat a child. Are all these resolutions necessary? Well when you have teachers openly advertising to the world that they have no intention of respecting any wishes of the current government. And the teachers union openly encourages teachers to protest this government. If only they had this much zeal when the Liberals took away collective bargaining and retroactively removed contractual benefits over bill115. (CBC on Bill 115) So yeah, I believe these resolutions were actually necessary. That’s why I also voted for a resolution to make it mandatory for schools to advise parents a day ahead of teaching any sex ed. So if you know your kid’s teacher is an activist you have the ability to pull your child from indoctrination class. Not that I’m happy at the idea of this level of distrust of the education system but it is a symptom of the times we are now living in.

So then we got to the resolution where Tanya calls for an end to the teaching of “Gender Identity Theory” because it is a “highly controversial, unscientific liberal ideology”. The resolutions required 2/3 support to vote. The vast majority of delegates voted in favour of the resolutions, passing them all. I was among those who voted in favour and were very proud to do so. But not one single of these resolutions have anything to do with actual transgender people. The key word you need to pay attention to here is the word “theory”. Conservatives are not like these “progressives” who feel the need to hide behind dressed up language and talk in circles around what they actually mean. The theory is a direct reference to the Marxist method of critique for the purposes of deconstruction. It is not the role of the teacher to contest science through marxist critical theory. Biology is not a theory or bigotry. Biology is reality. And the resolution was aimed to draw a clear distinction between the home and the classroom. The classroom is for teaching facts and the home is for teaching values. Any parents who don’t want to love, embrace and value their children, we have child services for that.

We, in the city, sometimes fail to observe the occasional social bubble we can get trapped in. The majority of Ontarians support these changes and repeatedly complained to the Kathleen Government that she hadn’t consulted with them at all before making any of these radical changes. This government is doing just this, consulting. But it’s typical that we cannot even table a discussion of these subjects without being denounced by every media outlet. These aren’t direct policies either, these are votes on subject matter towards policy creation for next year’s convention. So right now they’re nothing more than conversation. Taking a temperature of relevant issues. And it’s not like the newspapers even engaged in that dialogue, it’s just your typical “bigot, racist, homophobe, transphobe, etc etc etc” and making sure every person you interview talks about how scared they are. Because treating the government as the boogeyman isn’t intellectually dishonest at all. But the media is not speaking for the actual majority view of the people. All they have demonstrated by their headlines are that they are narrative based activism, not the objective news that people deserve.

If you want to understand better how the wider main stream media manipulates the truth, feel free to watch this video lecture with Melanie Phillips: Melanie Philips Lecture on how media manipulate the truth.

Conservatives don’t have gender or ethnicity quotas. And the party has displayed quite well that this has not held anyone back from entering the party. The media would have you believe this is the party of white supremacists. I’m not saying all conservatives are angels, we’re all just people and some of us can be assholes but most of us are good people. And this government manages a visibly diverse cabinet and inner party executive base. What these resolutions are about are drawing a line in the sand to define what things go too far. And all you need to do to see what’s wrong with these regressive ideologies on the left is simply contemplate 10 years into the future to see all implications of all these things we cling to in the name of “compassion”. The road to hell was paved with good intentions. And it’s time for everyone to know that it’s ok to have these conversations, it’s ok to stand up and say “no”.

A girl does not have to be the same as a boy to be equal. Diversity is our strength BECAUSE of our differences. Our ability to build bridges make us more innovative and more effective as a collective. Multiculturalism at its best is colour blind. Rating and ranking groups of people on superficial traits like skin colour is nothing more than divisive, regressively tribal and in contempt of individual sovereignty.

The conservatives won the election with an almost super majority because people of all walks of life around Ontario do not want their children to be social experiments. The actual science (as per sex researcher Dr. Debra Soh) says that the vast majority of children who identify with the opposing gender at an early age turn out to be gay. To see homosexual tendencies in your child and immediately act to affirm a transition of their own gender is nothing more than trying to train the gay out of your child in an act of some kind of bizarre inverted homophobia. My daughter won’t be a lesbian if she’s a straight man. My son won’t be gay if he’s a woman. And even if they are among the less than 1% of people who actually do truly feel they were born in the wrong body, they can wait till they’re adults to make that very adult decision. Why do you NEED hormone blockers for a minor? So they’ll be more “passable” when they transition in the future?

Hey, if I had a kid and they showed me that they truly believed they were a trapped in the wrong body, I would do everything in my power to make my kid feel comfortable in their own skin and I’d like to think we would find a way to make it work. People seem to think this attitude is rare when in reality the vast majority of families actually love and support their kids. And no one wants to see ANY kid left behind. But to subject the rest of the 99% of children and families to this deconstructionist post-modern authoritarianism is just insane. And that’s what the province told us on election day, it was actually campaigned on by Doug Ford.

Look, identity is a complex thing. If Kathleen Wynne had not gone SO extreme with her ideological possession then the pendulum wouldn’t need to autocorrect so hard. There is a reason why the Liberals got reduced below party status on election day. And if you want to believe it’s because of homophobic bigots then I ask you, who voted her into a majority in the prior election? The same homophobic bigots? She had a real opportunity here and she completely blew it by betraying the center. She stopped listening. I believe there is room for us to ALL agree on these issues. We all spend like the first 30 years of our lives trying to figure out who we are. Politically, sexually, philosophically, technically, artistically, athletically, etc. No one is saying there is no room for healthy discussion around the things that make us different. And it’s important that we observe, listen and learn from those who struggle through this. Vice did an indepth doc on trans children.

To the handful of parents who do have to deal with gender dysphoria issues with their little kids, my heart really does hurt for them. It really is a very complex issue. And very scary. But it’s more than clear to me that these unique situations need to be treated as a case by case basis. There may be situations where hormone blockers really are the best path forward. I literally cannot think of one scenario like that but I’m open to the possibility of it. But that’s up to that family to decide. Not any level of government bureaucracy. How anyone can’t agree on that is so fucking crazy to me. To subject an entire province to government tyranny like this based on junk science really just shows the contempt some people have for the vast majority of us.

But the differences of a classroom will vary from classroom to classroom and it’s the role of the teacher to identify the needs of the students and cater to those needs. But we need to get back to a time when teachers and parents had healthy, trusting relationships and the child’s best interests at the forefront. But we will never get to that place, we will never get to that place if we cannot entertain any shred of nuance. This is not debating anyone’s “existence” or “humanity” or anything like that. We’re trying to find a way forward that works for EVERYONE and gets education RIGHT. Not something that works for less than 1% of people and sticks the rest of us with the middle finger. When you get education right everything else falls into place. Deconstructing known facts in the name of “progressiveness” and “compassion” will only hurt society. Like, where would you draw the line? Should we allow the teaching of flat earth theory? Just because something calls itself “inclusive” doesn’t mean that’s actually good for us.

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These are not my ideas by the way. there is a very vocal minority of professors who are speaking out about this stuff in academia. A minority because people are frankly terrified of the mob violence naysayers are subjected to. If this stuff is all relatively new to you then I highly advise you check out this fantastic lecture by Gad Saad.

Take the case of Emile Ratelbrand, the 69-year-old Dutchman who is seeking to change his age to 49. It’s hard to find a girlfriend when you’re 69, you know? Employers constantly discriminate against him based on his age but who are they to say that a 69 year old man can’t work a physical labour job for the next 30 years? Does the military or police or firefighters have a special bigoted, ageist agenda to hold back older people? why should they treat a 69 year old any different from a 19 year old? They don’t know his lived experience, they don’t know his truth! If you think this is ridiculous then you just haven’t been paying attention. If you do not stand for anything you just fall for everything. And we can discuss what things are actually good but there is no debating things that are actually bad. Bad actions actually tilt this world towards hell and we need to all shake hands, unite and move forward together.

I mean, if we’re going to talk about gay rights or trans rights then let’s discuss THAT. It’s not hard to observe all the ways homosexual and trans people experience REAL hate around the world. Whether that be the solidarity march in Ukraine that even the police failed to protect victims over. Or being sentenced to death through sharia law, resulting in being thrown off the roof of a high rise building. Or perhaps the leader of the country refuses to even acknowledge that their country even has a homosexual population. And even here at home we have places like covenant house which houses teenagers who have been kicked out of their homes for coming out to their parents. These are very real issues.

Simply discussing policy is not homophobia or transphobia. It’s a slap in the face to people who have actually experienced real hate and it actually creates a larger stigma against homosexuals and trans individuals. If we’re going to talk about one’s own “humanity” then we need to stop weaponizing actual people to be used as slurs against people and ideas we disagree with. There is nothing more patronizing than someone getting offended on my behalf. These people have dealt with tougher issues than the majority of us, they don’t need Andrea Horwath crying for them when her tears come with a subscription fee. Pride is more important than just some weekend event. And I’d like to invite all LGBTQ people to unite on this front and demand politicians stop using them as populist fodder for cheap political points. They deserve better. And I want to make it my mission to make sure that this PC government has an ear open to listen to ALL people. That’s why I invite you to put Ontario on your agenda. Let’s make Ontario the uniting tribe that we can all relate to. Let’s focus more on listening to one another. Your interests as an Ontarian are my interests as an Ontarian.

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Now to address these claims of voting fraud. Take a look at that picture above. See how my voting card has been stamped? That means I voted. And it means you’re only voting once. If I were to slap another sticker over my name the hole would still be punched in the tag. They specifically had a table of people you went to before voting to handle your tag to verify you haven’t already voted. I even hung around the area while waiting on a few others and I did not see anyone voting more than once or anything sketchy at all. All these constitution amendments that he talked about in the TVO interview that were all so based on “democracy” were crazy. Things like if the party leader pisses you off you get to vote on kicking him out. Because apparently no one has learned anything from the chaos that was patrick brown. How the fuck does that not leave things open for any special interest group to come in and sabotage the whole party right before an election? Once you have a leader you need to get behind that leader and unite as a party, not constantly hold them hostage to inner party squabbling. Almost all his amendments were voted down and he lost the bid for party president and now he’s just butt hurt as all hell and throwing a temper tantrum. And the fact that he doesn’t care how it makes the party as a whole look is pretty disgraceful. I was shocked at how much support he had. But I’m glad Jim lost.

“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.”

– Elvis Presley