Denial of what? That the prejudice in Toronto has always been strong and is increasing?r . It used to be anyone with a Quebec licence plate was fair gane for many young drivers That I do know, Had relatives there so went frequently. I was driven off the road, tailgated etc during the "Hate Quebec" period. Now it has been replaced with anyone of a different culture.
POOR STUPID Bluebyrdie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She says "prejudice in Toronto has always been strong and is increasing"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She has an UTTERLY POISONED WORLD VIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How is it that prejudice can be INCREASING when so many LIE-berals are in charge of ALL LEVELS OF OUR GOVT?????????????
And yes- LIE-berals are in retreat in many provinces..............but byrdie is a typical LIE-beral!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She wants to blame prejudice for the fact that all LIE-beral policy is FAILING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is an article detailing the sex education mess LIE-berals have left us! With some comments of my own in brackets):
St. Michael’s victim should come first, not the school
By Heather Mallick, Star Columnist
Published Fri., Nov. 23, 2018
The welfare of children comes first. The job of adults is to make sure this happens. But over and over, we let our children down.
Take the hard-right Ford government decimating the modernized sex-ed curriculum in Ontario schools. In a society as sexualized as ours, children need to be able to defend themselves from predators, and in the case of St. Michael’s College School, allegedly from some other students.
(POOR FOOLISH MALLICK! The problem with the LIE-beral sex education curriculum is that it is seen by many parents to tell too much too soon to kids that are too young! And much of what is taught seems to normalize more extreme behaviour!)
More and better sex education can only help protect children against the sort of horrors that allegedly took place at St. Michael’s College School, Heather Mallick writes.
(Garbage! More and better sex education simply gives UNSUPERVISED kids a better idea what sort of kinky games might be played!)
More and better sex education can only help protect children against the sort of horrors that allegedly took place at St. Michael’s College School, Heather Mallick writes.
(Sorry- the true key is parental supervision and the setting of standards! Things that are too often missing in modern homes! Think of the 15 year old New Brunswick girl- Rehtaeh Parsons- who got drunk at a party and then was raped while passed out -with photos of the event taken to ensure all present would have happy memories of their “entertainment”!)
(This Parsons event demonstrates a TOTAL indifference to any possible parental out rage! Too many of our kids are convinced that parents don’t care and cannot be bothered - and sadly the kids might be RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
If government removes information from class — about names for genitals, different sexualities, and how to find a sympathetic adult who will hear your story of abuse and danger — then children are without armour or recourse.
(How absurd! Giving kids detailed knowledge of ”different sexualities” sounds like a great way to NORMALIZE what happened ST Mikes! If NOTHING is wrong or aberrant then HOW are kids to know not to do things? And yet if all forms of sexuality are acceptable then HOW can we forbid anything? Other than by making it clear that such behaviour is AGE SPECIFIC- meaning the older the better- BEFORE you start such “experimentation”?)
Who does that assist? Basically, pedophiles. It’s in their interests for children to remain unwary, mystified about sex, and without defence. “It’ll just be our little secret,” says the abuser. “Right?”
Here’s one case recently reported by the CBC. How did three sexually abusive teachers end up at Bell High School in Ottawa and prey on students for decades, while not necessarily overlapping? Do abusers trade notes on the most oblivious schools?
(“Do abuser trade notes”, Mallick asks? I ask: Who says they don’t? And how much was known about the 3 pedophiles- before the news broke? Both our school administrators and our Church officials play a little game called “Pass the trash”- meaning SUSPECTS get sent someplace else before the smelly stuff hits the fan! And AGAIN - REAL parental supervision is the only REAL DEFENSE until the kids get old enough to defend themselves!)
A smart child knows to go for help. The St. Michael’s boy who is alleged to have been sexually assaulted with a broom handle by a gang of boys — it sounds very much like a horrific scene from 13 Reasons Why, a Netflix drama about teen suicide — did not tell his parents. It’s not clear if he told anyone but if he had grown up since primary school with the new curriculum, this brave boy would have known that somewhere out there was an adult who would help.
(So lets ask which the kid was MORE AFRAID OF? Another assault? Or to spend the rest of his school life known everywhere as broomstick boy! Anybody with an ounce of sense will know that after the news media jumped on the story- ALL the kids at St Mikes quickly got the names of the protagonists and then spilled the name to family and pals!)
And then we come to the parents. There seem to be two camps, with some parents on camera demanding transparency and reform from the school and angry that the police weren’t called right away.
Then there are other parents, who may feel precisely the same way but took another angle: they blamed the media for uncovering the story and reporting on it. Though I received emails from good men who had survived victimization in private school or who knew of other cases, I heard from one distressed St. Michael’s mother, and it worried me.
She devoted one short sentence to collective sorrow for the “victims” and then launched into a defence of 1,000+ “innocent victims,” who had done nothing wrong but were being mocked and bullied for attending St. Michael’s College School.
(Yes- and so much for the VAUNTED LIE-beral sex curriculum that is supposed to make kids tolerant and understanding -and CLEARLY DOES NOT! And we have only to look at the Toronto District SB trustee who publicly and angrily referred to Toronto Sun reporter Sue-Ann Levy as a “bull dyke”! How quickly LIE-berals FORGET their holier than thou standards when annoyed!!!!)
(LIE-berals are not fooling anybody with their open and inclusive talk- one has only to listen to angry kids on a school yard- reaching for the most offensive insult they can find- and coming up with a loud accusation of “Faggot”! In imitation of their LIE-beral elders!)
(And this political unreality will only get worse as Muslims and illegals come here from places where homosexuality is a SIN!! LIE-beral lust for votes at any price is so high they IGNORED a Calgary Imam in summer 2017 who explained to a cheering crowd that Allah permits the Faithful to KILL GAYS to prevent them from sinning again! Such talk is NOT TOLERANCE!)
(The detestable LIE-beral values commitment is also being FORCED onto religious groups who seek govt grants to operate soup kitchens and summer camps etc! Catholics have been honest and refused to sign an agreement supporting LIE-beral abortion rights- but Muslims operate with Taquiya- the dispensation from God that permits them to LIE in defense of Islam! So in summer 2018, LIE-berals gave grants to Muslim hypocrites who oppose abortion and denied grants to honest Catholics- who oppose abortion but will not lie about it for money!)
She then repeated rumours, with no evidence whatsoever, of actual media offering children money for the pornographic videos, which is absurd. It’s a crime to own child pornography, much less pay for it, and no Canadian journalist pays for stories. It would be a firing offence or worse. Yes, there is always worse.
(And who says the money offers were not pedophiles? Or parents seeking to buy up nd destroy the images?)
I am grateful to CityNews reporter Tina Yazdani, whose calm, measured TV interview of two mothers outside the school grounds revealed so much about modern — or otherwise — parenthood.
The women did not want the story reported. “What the media is doing to this school around this incident, you are part of the problem. You’re a problem.” one said angrily.
(Hey- you pay that much to get your kids a good education -and then to your horror- you discover the kids are learning stuff THAT IS NOT on the curriculum! The poor women are no doubt deeply humiliated!)
But how is one to solve this problem? Apparently with silence, by not reporting a story of national interest about alleged gang sexual abuse in a Catholic school, as if an editor in this day and age would say, “Nah, leave it alone, it’ll damage the Church.”
(And it is not as if we have not seen such scandals before! One has only to think of Upper Canada College and the pedophile teachers who got arrested for preying on boarding students! Again- parental supervision is the key that is missing! And some good solid straight talk about sexual variations as well!)
I sympathize with the anguished mothers. But their stance sounds Cardinal Law-like, as in Boston, as in the movie Spotlight. Sex crimes against children must not be discussed in clear, open air.
The most bewildering thing about Catholic priests tormenting children worldwide was not the crime. Pedophiles do what pedophiles do. But the priests went unquestioned by parents, were defended by the corporate church, and were hidden by other adults who didn’t want to cause trouble.
The silent era has, I hope, ended.
(Good LUCK with that! The Church understands that forgiveness is a Christian obligation but the Church seems not to understand that forgiveness is one thing but offering MORE TRUST is another! Most Cdns accept that pedophiles are mentally ill- and they bear no blame for ill!! But offering a proven pedophile any more BLIND TRUST around kids is madness! You would not let a recovering alcoholic run a liquor store so why let pedophiles near kids? AGAIN?)
I am thinking of the parents protesting the modern sex-ed curriculum — they’ve been complaining since 2015 and pulling their kids from public schools — because it went against their various religious beliefs. But secular schools put children’s safety first. Parents’ complaints necessarily come second.
(Thus far there is NO PROOF that the LIE-beral sex curriculum will do anything but arouse curiosity and a desire to explore- in some of our kids! Knowing the names of genitalia will not prevent abusive acts! Only the setting of standards and parental supervision will prevent abuses! Kids need to know there ARE CONSEQUENCES for behaviour they know is not acceptable!)
(And the worst of it is that our govt does not deem it necessary to TELL US what is in the sex ed curriculum! Talk about buying as pig in a poke! Maybe Ford should put the whole mess online for parents to read and judge for themselves?)
(And there is the great question of our times- just what behaviour IS ACCEPTABLE???? And what IS NOT in these modern times?? The St. Mikes scandal begam as part of a team hazing ritual! Would the scandal disappear if the victims had said “oh, its okay, I just want to be on the team”!!!!!!!!!!!! Or would the scandal persist because who wants to think of the unregulated Lords of the Flies sticking broom handles up each others Butts?)
(And HOW will LIE-beral sex education limit the Lords of the Flies in the first place?)