Meliorist
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Since @susanholt and @Gov_NB have decided to abandon the 100,000 or so NB users on this platform…
This is a link to Fire Watch for burn/no burn information.
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#nbpoli Without comment.
🌎Do land acknowledgements actually further reconciliation? This was the question put to us last week at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Law, where I had the pleasure of debating Professor Rebeca Macias Gimenez at an event hosted by the Runnymede Society’s student chapter there.
I argued against the proposition with the following points, and others:
1️⃣I understand “why” people deliver land acknowledgements. It’s clear to me that in good Canadian fashion, their intentions are "good". But "good intentions" do not advance reconciliation tangibly. They've made it possible for institutions to say something "meaningful without accepting the responsibility that come with the relationship. Described as a “first step” for more than a decade, leaves many of wondering what comes after that.
2️⃣Land acknowledgements often misrepresent the legal relationship of a particular territory. We hear references to "traditional territories", but rarely do we hear about the treaties and the diplomatic relationships that shaped that particular territory for centuries. At a minimum, the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and Treaty of Niagara in 1764 remind us that the relationship between Indigenous Nations and the Crown was about how distinct peoples would live alongside one another, as neighbours, with mutual rights and responsibilities.
3️⃣Land acknowledgements almost always misrepresent the protocols of the Nation with whom Canadians share the territory. Where I’m from, like many others, gatherings of all kinds are opened with a prayer, giving thanks to the Creator, to God for life around us and acknowledging our responsibilities to one another and to the world around us. Land acks, in current form, do not reflect the protocols of the governing treaty or the Nation involved.
4️⃣Indigenous Nations are not a relic of the past. We are part of Canada’s present and future. We have our own governments, citizens, laws, rights, responsibilities, and ambitions to build strong, prosperous communities.
A sincere thank you to Kathryn Blommaert, student chapter leader of the Runnymede Society there, and her fellow chapter members for organizing and hosting this discussion. My thanks as well to Tim Haggstrom, National Director of the Runnymede Society, for his leadership and support.
I also want to thank Professor Rebeca Macias Gimenez for a thoughtful and engaging debate, and Kathleen Makela for moderating our discussion.
Finally, thank you🙏 to all the law students who made time to join us, listen, ask questions, and engage in the discussion.
📣⚖️ 👩🎓👨🎓Universities should be places where intellectual curiosity, free expression, and open debate are encouraged, where competing ideas are tested, assumptions are challenged, and disagreement is met with thoughtful discussion rather than outright dismissal. These are principles championed by the Runnymede Society, and I appreciated the opportunity to put them into practice.
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it's crazy that Goethe was dropping these bangers in his private journals 200 years before the internet
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A lot of us were very willing to have a debate without heat, @stonewalluk, and the reason that never happened wasn't because gender critical feminists didn't want one.
While we were trying to get you to listen to our concerns, your former CEO was telling a BBC boss that gay people not wanting to include the opposite sex in their dating pool was 'sexual racism'. While we were pointing out the homophobia inherent in gender ideology, Stonewall ambassador Alex Drummond (a bearded, heterosexual man who'd had no surgery and taken no cross-sex hormones but liked wearing skirts), was going into schools to talk to students about his 'lesbian' identity. @BluskyeAllison, who actually is a lesbian, was subject to unlawful discrimination at her place of work for tweeting: ‘Stonewall recently hired Morgan Page, a male bodied person who ran workshops with the sole aim of coaching heterosexual men who identify as lesbians on how they can coerce young lesbians into having sex with them. Page called [it] “overcoming the cotton ceiling”.’
When the UK Supreme Court upheld women's right to single sex spaces, you issued a statement expressing your unhappiness about the ruling. In her report on your unhappy influence at the University of Essex, you were found by barrister @akuareindorf to have misrepresented the law as it related to women's rights: '[Stonewall have] stated the law as Stonewall would prefer it to be, rather than the law as it is’.
In 2018, you publicly advised schools to shred a research pack saying there were risks to puberty blockers, in spite of the fact that you aren't a medical charity and that there was already credible evidence that puberty blockers are neither irreversible nor harm-free. Meanwhile you produced your own educational packs, recommending a children's book, for ages 5-9, in which the parent 'is neither a man, nor a woman – they’re non-binary.' In July 2022, Stonewall sent out a tweet that read ‘Research suggests that children as young as two recognise their trans identity'.
@thetimes has reported how you've sought to control the language used by NHS trusts and government on their social-media accounts. Organisations would get points from you for replacing commonly understood words with ideologically approved terms, eg, 'birthing parent' instead of 'mother'. thetimes.com/uk/society/arti…
In short, you took a maximalist position on gender identity ideology, which you attempted to enforce by diktat. You refused to acknowledge that you'd hitched your wagon to a cause that, unlike civil rights, gay rights or women's rights, sought to strip rights from others. You sought to curtail everyone's right to freedom of speech and belief by controlling what it was permissible to think and say, through the management and political class. You have argued against women's and girl's rights to their own spaces, their sports and to assemble without men. Your former CEO tried to shame gay women/men into dating the opposite sex if the latter claimed to be female/male.
Your mantra was 'no debate' because, like all totalitarians, you preferred slogans, bullying and infiltration of powerful institutions to talking to opponents. You appear to have had no concern for the lowly people your ideology was harming: gender confused kids, female rape victims, female prisoners, regular people hounded and investigated at their places of work for refusing to accept the new mandates on sex and gender issued from on high.
Your 'activism' has been a disaster for those trans-identified people who really do just want to get on with their lives in peace. You have besmirched the name of an organisation many of us were once proud to donate to, the charity that was partly responsible for securing the legal right of gay people to marry, which a lot of us thought would never happen in our lifetimes. The milquetoast words quoted below do not erase a decade of gender activism that has been disastrous not only for individuals but for society as a whole.
There was once a debate to be had, but until you acknowledge the direct harm you've caused, it is no more possible to debate you than to persuade a person in the throes of a drug-induced psychosis that they are not, in fact, the reincarnated Christ.
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Moths are attracted by the flame of personality. So are vampires. Artists should take note and beware.
— Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell
Cimetière du Père-Lachaise
Ulf Andersen (1984)
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2 million people have watched my conversation with @triggerpod on the cauldronic history of the Middle East
Our conversation with Simon Sebag Montefiore on the history of the Middle East has officially surpassed 2 million views on YouTube!
Watch the full episode with @simonmontefiore on YouTube now.
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The six coppers surround and arrest my wife- she was handcuffed. Bedfordshire police later stated in a report it was because they believed she was a danger to herself and others. Another day in modern Britain…
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Today is apparently "Intersex Awareness Day," and a writer at the Trevor Project chose to honor people with developmental conditions by...lying about the nature and prevalence of their conditions for political gain.
The article just regurgitates the same tired arguments that have been thoroughly debunked many times, such as that "sex" refers to a collection of traits, that so-called "intersex" conditions are "as common as red hair" (1-2%), and that people with these conditions are not classifiable as male or female.
Lying to people about the nature and prevalence of their developmental condition does not help or support them. It exploits them.
I'm not going to write a formal response, because I've already debunked these arguments countless times. So I'll just leave you with a link to my most recent scholarly article on the topic: "Why There Are Exactly Two Sexes."
🔗link.springer.com/article/10…
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Tomorrow, Israelis head to the polls to elect the 26th Knesset.
This election gives citizens across the country, from different cultures, religions and communities, a part in shaping Israel’s future. 🇮🇱
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"One of the great paradoxes of this war is that Ukraine has redefined modern warfare while never quite gaining control over the technologies on which its own survival depends," writes Cory Alpert, a researcher at the University of Melbourne, in this op-ed.
kyivindependent.com/musks-me…
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Toronto police removed Brad Bradford campaign signs from the area in a Jewish Toronto neighbourhood where antizionist protesters rally every weekend.
After the protest, cops put the signs back.
The woman filming asks: is this not illegal?
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Our final British Columbia forecast for tonight:
CON 56
NDP 35
Green 2
Vote-Scope gives the Conservatives a >99% chance of a majority.
After 67 polls, this is our final call before the results come in.
vote-scope.com/en/canada/bri…
BC afternoon forecast:
CON 56
NDP 35
Green 2
Conservatives remain at 99% for a majority.
For the curious: our final forecast comes later tonight, after the last polls are in.
vote-scope.com/en/canada/bri…
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EMMA WATSON AND THE NARCISSISTIC ABUSE OF THE TOXIC SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS.
They discard and then they make themselves the victim, and eventually
come back for an image rebrand enlightened. Absolutely not.
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The most important thing today is that Starlink and Starshield operations have been restored to the speeds we had before the restrictions. The speeds are now where they need to be. The restoration began overnight, and by this morning, speeds were already sufficient. This matters: for our frontline logistics, for defending Ukraine against jet-powered “shaheds.”
I thank all Americans and all our partners who took this seriously and truly helped – members of Congress, senators, all the media, the State Department, and the President. Protecting lives matters.
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I wrote a new piece about women’s rights and whether or not I want trans people dead. (Spoiler: I don’t)👇
jkrowling.com/opinions/an-up…
