Recreational Outrage

One of my daughters is learning French, but she dislikes reading in French; she finds it boring. So, I’ve started to read books en Français with her – in my bastardized half attempt at the language – at night before bed. As a reward she gets to pick out an English book to read, so her and her sibling pull out this book my own sister gave me to read with my girls. It’s titled Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls. It’s a collection of 100, one-page stories, each about another female role model. I loved the idea; I have five girls and positive role models are always good.

Now attempting to define sexual identity before one has even learned what sexuality is doesn’t sit well with me for many reasons, but the reason Coy’s story upset me was that this book was for women, my women, about women, and the role model held up was a boy. The narratives we present to children shape who they become. Via this narrative, the trans ideology seeks to take from women to give to confused men. All presented through a children’s book, in an oversimplified narrative. I hoped it was a one-off of wokeness.

I flipped the pages, a few stories later, we were reading about an indigenous woman. I asked my 7 year old, “Do you know what indigenous means? They must have taught you about that at school.” She replied quickly that yes, indeed she did know what indigenous meant (even if it was hard to pronounce). I asked her what she knew about aboriginal people. Her immediate reply was, “White people came from Europe and killed them and took their land.”

And that was it. She couldn’t think of another detail off the top of her head. But that one thought had been drilled into her, carved into stone: bad White people. And hey, I get that schools have limited time and that they can’t teach every little detail, but that’s not the case with my kids’ schools when it comes to aboriginal issues.

Where I live, they teach a TON about indigenous people, it’s like a month a year out of the socials curriculum. In all that time “learning” about indigenous people, what had she walked away with? Not who these people were, not where they lived, not what they believed, not their culture, not anything actually about the indigenous people themselves. The only thing she had learned was that white people are bad. What kind of education system was this?

Now, don’t get me wrong, I want my children to learn history. A lot of it. I’m a firm believer that those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it. It is absolutely essential that kids learn about the positive and negative impacts of colonialism, but it can’t end there. It, and all knowledge, belongs to a larger story; one that gives our children (and thus our future) the tools they need to build a better world. As such, my child’s understanding of a very complex, very important topic can’t be limited to that one example. I don’t want my kids learning the teacher’s opinion or subjective view on any topic; I don’t want them trying to convert our kids to their religion, or teach them who to vote for, or what art is “good”. Do we want our children learning a world of truth and objectivity or not? Because today’s education system is very much against that primary purpose of the education system.

Born of the Industrial Revolution, the modern education system served to teach the working class to read and write and to understand the basics of what their jobs would potentially entail, such as maths. We’ve since added to and refined the curriculums endlessly. Students today can learn history, the arts, literature, the sciences and more. At it’s core, it is still a system of preparation for life as a productive and contributing citizen of the future. It is publicly-funded, which means a great deal of time and bureaucracy has gone into crafting the classes our kids go to five days a week. All with government oversight.

We parents invest a great deal of trust in the public education system. We are giving over to teachers these curious open minds and hearts we as parents would do anything for, trusting that our leaders have designed a program that will guide my child well, and protect my child from lies, bigotry, and yes – ideological indoctrination. In British Columbia, the BC Human Rights Tribunal – headlined by the boss-level, quad shot latte, anal retentive, woke Karen Supreme: Devyn Cousineau – imposed a life-ruining $750,000 sentence to a school board trustee. His crime? “Existential Denial” – they concluded this of his refusal to accept elementary schools teaching kids who are just losing their baby teeth that boys can be girls, and don’t you think you might be born into the wrong body? By refusing to say that trans people are whatever gender they think themselves to be, he denies their existence, which is therefore “hate speech”. This is 2+2=5, Room 101, Ministry of Love-level shit.

Beyond mandating early childhood indoctrination, it’s ideological enforcement, censorship, and a perfect pairing with legislation (Bill C-9) being passed by the federal government that blurs the definition of “hate speech” to make it whatever the powers that be want it to be. This makes it far easier to arrest and prosecute people for their political and religious opinions. It also removes a critical safeguard whereby the AG’s office will no longer need to approve prosecutions for “hate” offences. Personally, I think calling someone a Nazi pedophile is pretty goddamned hateful, but I’ve yet to see an arrest. Still, the “approved” hateful rhetoric is being repeated to our children 5 days a week.

I don’t give a flying fuck how much you hate Trump – you shut the fuck up about your personal political beliefs while employed to teach my child how governments work, in crayon. I’ve already written about how my 12-year-old daughter came home and declared, “I hate Donald Trump!”. I asked her why. She said, “I don’t know. Tariffs?”

Now I’ve got my half-White children learning the only important detail about indigenous people is that they are all victims of the big, bad, evil White Man; and I’ve got them learning to hate people they don’t know for reasons they don’t understand. “Oh but we weren’t teaching hate, we were showing how it’s important to be inclusive!” It no longer needs to make sense what they say or believe; my girl came home full of hate nonetheless. It makes me want to pull them all out of school, but we are not given an alternative. That makes it mandatory ideological indoctrination for all children ages 5 to 18 where any dissent is punitively censored, by government institutions. And that is a big fucking problem.

My children are not learning what they are supposed to be learning in the social sciences. My eldest two didn’t understand how the government works, like, at all, until I sat down with them. They have very little knowledge of ANY country outside North America, except for Isreal (which is, as with white people, evil), unless we’ve discussed it at home. They couldn’t tell you about the dawn of civilization, or Mayan pyramids, but they could repeat the same three talking points (they don’t all go to the same school so we get a spread of teachers) about the oppression of the Palestinians (which I don’t mean to downplay). I have no problem with them learning about a regional conflict, but it has to be taught objectively or not at all.

None of them have gotten much into the subject of slavery yet, but they all know that white people brought black people to the US as slaves, even the 4 year old.. However, if they are going to learn about slavery, I want them to learn more than that. White people didn’t invent slavery, were hardly the largest traders in slaves, and headed the first modern society to abolish slavery. That doesn’t make slavery okay – it makes slavery, well, slavery. It was something practiced everywhere in the world, from China to Tunisia to Tennessee, by every race, including the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Among the things no student is learning: there were more white Europeans enslaved by Africans than there were blacks enslaved in all North America, by something like a 3 to 1 ratio. Where are our reparations?

My kids are taught that they live on “stolen land”, making them inherently bad for – as it is explained to them – being complicit in this “theft”. Well, it gets a bit more complicated when you look at the histories of these lands prior to Europeans arriving. Various aboriginal tribes constantly attacked and killed other tribes, often enslaving their defeated foes, in wars of conquest. Whose land is it then? Which tribe’s? How far back do we go? The lesson is that it’s only bad, it’s only evil, if White people did it. This, of course, is peak racism, to go along with open calls for genocide by American newspapers and universities, which have been normalized.

I’m paying – via some of the world’s highest taxation rates – to have my kids taught patently untrue radical claims, racism, and political indoctrination, alongside some (very) basic skills. And it takes up HUGE swaths of time! It’s not something touched on once or twice a year on a single day. This is repeated, over and over, year after year until, like my daughter, they no longer question it; they just regurgitate it. In the same rote memory vein of the multiplication tables, our kids are taught – via government-funded, mandatory programs – to be bigots. But because they have a colourful rainbow flag (now in virtually every school head office in the city), they can’t be evil, right?

They can; and no, it’s not okay because it targets White people. This is what I mean when I say the Left has no true principles. Are you for politicians spouting hyperbole or against it? Are you a political violence apologist or aren’t you? Is racism bad, or is it good? Are we innocent until proven guilty or not? What are the values and policies you stand on? Have you researched them? Can you name them? Define them? More importantly: can your kids?

If the most important part of my child’s day at school has to do with what sexual fetish they or their classmates might one day have, we have a very broken system. If we have a bunch of ideological cuckold parents, too afraid of having this group of (admittedly very intimidating) extremists, pretending the problem doesn’t exist by focusing on their phone, we have a broken society.

I, for one, am tired. I’m tired of hearing of how – alone in history – evil my ancestors were (and not even my ancestors! who oppressed nobody and just happened to be white too) for doing what was commonplace in their day. I’m tired of being told what I can and can’t say. I’m tired of my children being taught lies and hate and intolerance. And here’s the truth: I am worried that if I mention ANY of this to my children’s teachers or principles, that they will be singled out either for punishment, or for extra “education” attention. That’s a real fear. I worry that other parents might hear about it and tell their kids not to play with my kids. I wonder if my kids share this same fear alongside their classmates.

In building this progressive, liberal, tolerant, inclusive, compassionate utopia world of socialism and rainbows, the Leftists in charge of policy have become the very fascists they claim to hate. Where parents fear the repercussions of refusing to have their babies conform to an ideology they don’t understand, and which they can’t escape.

I won’t tell my children how to vote. I want them to arrive at that on their own, as adults should with that kind of responsibility. The skills they need to go about obtaining all the information they need to make an informed decision we assume they will learn in 13 years of K-12 education. For democratic processes, and so many other aspects of life, we need a society that fosters curiosity, respect, and open dialogue. What we have is failing us. And I hope that, regardless of your personal political beliefs, you can agree that an echo chamber is not good for anyone’s future citizens.