Every time the intellectual community gives in to these crude fools who don't want their lies challenged we all lose ground. When a Nigel Biggar is threatened we need to invite ten more like him to speak. Nothing scatters threats and fear like the bright light of truth.
In some ways it is an honour to be cancelled for the counter arguments do not stand up on examination. I am an Anglican from a school with a charter from Queen Elizabeth 1st. Written on vellum with the beautiful signature and trailing curves. Chapel every morning at the tolling of a bell and a short service including a psalm sung in Anglican chant. I taught in a Residential school and through the years have had a wide association with indigenous peoples. From running indigenous maintenance crews to Master thesis on the Cree snow shoe. I never heard any condemnation of the education system. On the contrary the opposite was true. For instance a conversation with graduates from St. Michaels IRS. in Alert bay, BC expressed gratitude for the business education training they received and the enjoyment of High school. Only in recent years has there developed controversy. My eldest son received his first inoculation shots in the infirmary at Grouard IRS. That year, my second in Canada, was full of positive experience as I interacted with the community. I do not hide my experiences and openly counter the blatant untruths which abound in recent years. This openness comes with the unqualified judgements of critics and their condemnation. I was "let go "as Town crier in Duncan and now my offer of involvement in an English Tea at St Peters, Quamichan, BC was declined on the basis I had involvement in residential schools and the multiple deaths at the Kamloops IRS. It should be noted that I had brought to the attention of the church administration that an indigenous presentation in the church on June 3rd 2023 was totally incorrect. The RCMP have no files on persons being burnt in incinerators and no bodies have been found in the grounds of the Kamloops IRS. I am guilty of "wrong think." This August we are installing a new incumbent, a trans individual, and the logistics of washroom naming and such are complete, and a trans lecture with a speech restriction presented. Why are there so few parishioners in attendance on a Sunday while a few hundred yards away 800 congregate in a double service shift ? It is a difficult situation with which to be challenged.
Well apparently reconciliation does happen by shutting down speech and even proven facts that contradict the “given” but in some (many? most?) cases totally unproven and/or false truths. It may be the only way it happens. I have a friend who has given up talking about it since he knows better from his experiences with indigenous but cannot say anything contrary even if it can be found to be proven in the TRC documents. If he does raise questions about the path indigenous leaders and their helpers are on now, he is in trouble. What better way to move reconciliation along than with bluff, lies and threats. Seems to work fine.
We have now reached the point in Canada where the real historians are not allowed to speak, and charlatans who claim that priests secretly buried 15-25,000 children are given government grants and placed on CBC panels. This is indeed a dark time in our history, but it has nothing to do with the fact that good people tried to educate indigenous children
CBC is very busy filling the airwaves with lies and poisonous propaganda. Its hate is wide ranging, covering many geographical and historical fields. It is a disgrace to journalism and to Canada. Apparently the Liberal Government of Canada has just raised considerably the CBC's grant. That tells you the state of Canada today.
When they have no reasonable facts against the ideas of a person they cancel him, do not let jim be heard i.e. deny his free speech and also deny the rights of free speech to anyone who wants to listen to him.
It is expected that non-indigenous taxpaying funders of all things indigenous are their hostages and the proper response to continuous strategic negotiation is to comply as would a hostage with Stockholm syndrome. If the non-indigenous were to attempt to censor the indigenous nobility for all their outrageous allegations and positions as demanded by them for the sins of critical thinking, their captured progressives from the SCOC on down to the Indian Affairs bureaucrats along with the institutional left of academia and the media would be aghast. Sacrificing free speech to mollify the voices of the grievance industry is a path that can only lead to non-verbal forms of "resolution" forget "reconciliation".
Too many First Nations people feel they have a right to feel agrieved. They constantly search out those to blame for their plight. Whom to blame is their problem. Do they ever blame each other? They claim to own the lands in which they left their footprints. Will that argument take the Romans back to their former claims? Ownership is the foundation of history and struggles and wars continue to rage seeking to regain it. Reality tells
us that only the present allows us to move forward. Living in the past is a fools game. It
only imprisons us and keeps us anchored in a sea of uncertainty. Standing still and looking back will always show that those who choose to do so are rapidly overtaken.
We must look forward as the past recedes and disappears into infinity.
Every time the intellectual community gives in to these crude fools who don't want their lies challenged we all lose ground. When a Nigel Biggar is threatened we need to invite ten more like him to speak. Nothing scatters threats and fear like the bright light of truth.
In some ways it is an honour to be cancelled for the counter arguments do not stand up on examination. I am an Anglican from a school with a charter from Queen Elizabeth 1st. Written on vellum with the beautiful signature and trailing curves. Chapel every morning at the tolling of a bell and a short service including a psalm sung in Anglican chant. I taught in a Residential school and through the years have had a wide association with indigenous peoples. From running indigenous maintenance crews to Master thesis on the Cree snow shoe. I never heard any condemnation of the education system. On the contrary the opposite was true. For instance a conversation with graduates from St. Michaels IRS. in Alert bay, BC expressed gratitude for the business education training they received and the enjoyment of High school. Only in recent years has there developed controversy. My eldest son received his first inoculation shots in the infirmary at Grouard IRS. That year, my second in Canada, was full of positive experience as I interacted with the community. I do not hide my experiences and openly counter the blatant untruths which abound in recent years. This openness comes with the unqualified judgements of critics and their condemnation. I was "let go "as Town crier in Duncan and now my offer of involvement in an English Tea at St Peters, Quamichan, BC was declined on the basis I had involvement in residential schools and the multiple deaths at the Kamloops IRS. It should be noted that I had brought to the attention of the church administration that an indigenous presentation in the church on June 3rd 2023 was totally incorrect. The RCMP have no files on persons being burnt in incinerators and no bodies have been found in the grounds of the Kamloops IRS. I am guilty of "wrong think." This August we are installing a new incumbent, a trans individual, and the logistics of washroom naming and such are complete, and a trans lecture with a speech restriction presented. Why are there so few parishioners in attendance on a Sunday while a few hundred yards away 800 congregate in a double service shift ? It is a difficult situation with which to be challenged.
Ben, Redcoat. 57th Regiment of Foot.
Well apparently reconciliation does happen by shutting down speech and even proven facts that contradict the “given” but in some (many? most?) cases totally unproven and/or false truths. It may be the only way it happens. I have a friend who has given up talking about it since he knows better from his experiences with indigenous but cannot say anything contrary even if it can be found to be proven in the TRC documents. If he does raise questions about the path indigenous leaders and their helpers are on now, he is in trouble. What better way to move reconciliation along than with bluff, lies and threats. Seems to work fine.
Conformity is the offspring of fear and cowardice which this cancellation adequately illustrates:
"The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow." ~ Jim Hightower
We have now reached the point in Canada where the real historians are not allowed to speak, and charlatans who claim that priests secretly buried 15-25,000 children are given government grants and placed on CBC panels. This is indeed a dark time in our history, but it has nothing to do with the fact that good people tried to educate indigenous children
CBC is very busy filling the airwaves with lies and poisonous propaganda. Its hate is wide ranging, covering many geographical and historical fields. It is a disgrace to journalism and to Canada. Apparently the Liberal Government of Canada has just raised considerably the CBC's grant. That tells you the state of Canada today.
When they have no reasonable facts against the ideas of a person they cancel him, do not let jim be heard i.e. deny his free speech and also deny the rights of free speech to anyone who wants to listen to him.
It is expected that non-indigenous taxpaying funders of all things indigenous are their hostages and the proper response to continuous strategic negotiation is to comply as would a hostage with Stockholm syndrome. If the non-indigenous were to attempt to censor the indigenous nobility for all their outrageous allegations and positions as demanded by them for the sins of critical thinking, their captured progressives from the SCOC on down to the Indian Affairs bureaucrats along with the institutional left of academia and the media would be aghast. Sacrificing free speech to mollify the voices of the grievance industry is a path that can only lead to non-verbal forms of "resolution" forget "reconciliation".
Too many First Nations people feel they have a right to feel agrieved. They constantly search out those to blame for their plight. Whom to blame is their problem. Do they ever blame each other? They claim to own the lands in which they left their footprints. Will that argument take the Romans back to their former claims? Ownership is the foundation of history and struggles and wars continue to rage seeking to regain it. Reality tells
us that only the present allows us to move forward. Living in the past is a fools game. It
only imprisons us and keeps us anchored in a sea of uncertainty. Standing still and looking back will always show that those who choose to do so are rapidly overtaken.
We must look forward as the past recedes and disappears into infinity.