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There is ACTUALLY a cretin here (a liberal, of course) who said college should NOT be about training for a high paying job. And that moe ron knows who he/she/it is. Yes, I have a lot of fun with the "Lesbian Dance Theory" thing, thanks to Ben Shapiro. People who get themselves equally in debt for Sociology or Philosophy degrees are equally ignorant. And here in Florida, a very LOW tuition community college can put its grads into careers like plumbing, air conditioner repair, etc, where the yearly salary starts out at almost six figures. The Occupy Wall Street Movement was created by a bunch of Moe RONS who ran up six figure student loan bills, didn't IMMEDIATELY get offered a six figure income for their Lesbian Dance Theory degrees and blamed American capitalism for being so mean to them.

Exactly, this is what Trudeau had to apologize for. Just because some leaders of the convoy made racist content, didn't mean everybody at the protest was racist.

Women's tears are not usually a big problem. There there. Today, it's the men's tears.

Looks like the trans community is having trouble coping with the opposing view. https://www.nationalreview.com/news/riley-gaines-assaulted-by-trans-activists-at-san-francisco-state-university/

Any young person that's gets a job with the Feds or lets say,Ont hydro or a union trades job. You need to get on your knees and kiss a boomers butt for the very generous pay and benefits you are now receiving. ?

Well said and right on. Bottom line is it is your responsibility to take care of yourself now and in the future. No one else cares about you.

Oh you peon LOL Only peons whine about how little they have and cry about others that are better off. I speak from reality, not some imaginary world. I worship no one and I also do not begrudge anyone from getting the most they can. Other solutions? To what?

Age 35 is still young enough to be able to retire at 65 in my opinion if one has a complete plan and follows it: 1. You have a job that pays enough or has a pension plan that will provide the pension. 2. If you don't have such a job, make a plan to get the skills or education that will enable you to get such a job. 3. Make a plan on how you could do it. It would require finding out if that kind of well-paying job would be available once you obtained the training or education for it. Is the job permanent or going to last? Also one needs to consider the location where he would have to work. Real estate in the big cities is very expensive. That should be considered in the plan. The bottom line is it requires some investigation and planning ahead. 4. If you can live in a place other than a big city it might help because of the high cost of real estate in the big cities. Going further north sometimes might be an option to find lower cost real estate. The availability of jobs in the location or area you plan to live must be considered as well. Minimum wage jobs will not do it. It requires some kind of skill and training for a better-paying job. These are just the thoughts from someone who doesn't have to do it any more.

Never said they were. The response was to a poster mentioning the top 1% earners. The thing is, this forum is obsessed with who makes how much money.

But that wasn't a protest - it rarely is. Anytime a guest speaker with an opposing view comes to visit one of these looney bins, the guest is either verbally threatened, physically intimidated, or campus security is called because someone's mobile safe space has been invaded by a visitor's opposing point of view. The trans community is insane, and it needs to be treated as such.

Doesn't get much more warped than that.

That's hardly a point against me given that you feed from the same political trough as they do. Disagree? Then perhaps you should teach these tranny activists how to behave like civilized human beings.

Abnormal sexual behavior is a fact of life. So is insanity. Should we normalize that for children too?

Calling out "facts" is somehow seen as being a test of something called "freedom of speech". Freedom of Speech isn't the issue, social currency is

I'd pay him to bang yours. Problem is, there are laws against bestiality.

I don't think they care much about the kids on social media. They care about the fact that there's still a lot of people who support the tax and for reaasons i can't fathom think it makes some positive difference to the world. It reminds me of those self flagellationist of the past that think that if they whip themselves to atone for their sins god will stop whatever evil they think is happening. It's like "There's a really really bad ice storm!!! God is displeased! TAX ME HARDER!!!!" if we want change we have to speak louder than they do. And that may even mean speaking at the next election for a new party that won't pull that kind of crap.

Would you please build a wall on your northern border as well.

I do, because I get my news from multiple sources and I fact-check as much as possible. America is closer to being energy independent now than we were under Trump.

well 'masculinity' itself has been deemed to be 'toxic', so even those who think like men have learned to hide it well.

You're so totally wrong about this it's not even funny anymore. You're making yourself look like a genuine fool, blathering demonstrable nonsense and you're too ignorant and/or too stubborn to realize (or admit it). The Roman Legionary was a well-trained and disciplined foot soldier, fighting as part of a professional well-organized unit, the legion (Latin: legio), established by the Marian Reforms. By Augustus' reign: With the army having become professional and permanent, soldiers were needed to fill the legions. All Roman soldiers were either volunteers or voluntarii who signed on for 16 years (later extended to 20 and then again to 25) or conscripts or lecti. Most were volunteers, however, if necessary, recruits could be obtained through a dilectus. ... The remaining 28 legions were reduced to 25 when Publius Quinctilius Varus lost 3 legions in the Battle of Teutoburg Forest in 9 CE. https://www.worldhistory.org/Roman_Legionary/ You're so completely, and utterly clueless that it's not worth responding to after this. You're a sad, clueless and angry little man, embarrassing yourself nearly every time you pound something out on the keyboard here.

ALmost forgot this.... this just shows how out of touch you are. What the allies are doing is getting maaive amounts of positive live fire data in a real shooting war and getting rid of the their old stock of crap. Their defense industries are loving it, you can't pay for this kind of data. Now the next generations of systems coming off the line will be even better and more improved - and it hardly cost them anything. For peanuts they're getting the best data which they'll use to replenish stocks and adapt tactics for the next war while russia is out of everything and all they know is their crap doesn't work. THis could NOT have gone better for the allies. Russia has been utterly trashed for peanuts and no manpower losses to the allies, and their economy has been badly damaged. Meanwhile the nato countries will be replenishing their stockpiles of ammo and developing their next generation systems and stimulating their economy to do it, They can afford it VERY easily. Putin was a total loser to do this.

Another competent opinion on Ukrainian war.

I concede it is long, but if you were actually interested in it you could, like I did, skim through much of it to get to the more relevant paragraphs. But you can't really see it in just a couple of brief paragraphs. Kornstein also published the manifesto for the movement, “Drag Pedagogy: The Playful Practice of Queer Imagination in Early Childhood,” with coauthor Harper Keenan, a female-to-male transgender queer theorist at the University of British Columbia. With citations to Foucault and Butler, the essay begins by applying queer theory’s basic premise of social constructivism and heteronormativity to the education system. “The professional vision of educators is often shaped to reproduce the state’s normative vision of its ideal citizenry. In effect, schooling functions as a way to straighten the child into a kind of captive alignment with the current parameters of that vision,” Kornstein and Keenan write. “To state it plainly, within the historical context of the USA and Western Europe, the institutional management of gender has been used as a way of maintaining racist and capitalist modes of (re)production.” To disrupt this dynamic, the authors propose a new teaching method, “drag pedagogy,” as a way of stimulating the “queer imagination,” teaching kids “how to live queerly,” and “bringing queer ways of knowing and being into the education of young children.” As Kornstein and Keenan explain, this is an intellectual and political project that requires drag queens and activists to work toward undermining traditional notions of sexuality, replacing the biological family with the ideological family, and arousing transgressive sexual desires in young children. “Building in part from queer theory and trans studies, queer and trans pedagogies seek to actively destabilize the normative function of schooling through transformative education,” they write. “This is a fundamentally different orientation than movements towards the inclusion or assimilation of LGBT people into the existing structures of school and society.” For the drag pedagogists, the traditional life path—growing up, getting married, working 40 hours a week, and raising a family—is an oppressive bourgeois norm that must be deconstructed and subverted. As the drag queens take the stage in their sexually suggestive costumes, Kornstein and Keenan argue, their task is to disrupt the “binary between womanhood and manhood,” seed the room with “gender-transgressive themes,” and break the “reproductive futurity” of the “nuclear family” and the “sexually monogamous marriage”—all of which are considered mechanisms of heterosexual, capitalist oppression. The books selected in many Drag Queen Story Hour performances—Cinderelliot, If You’re a Drag Queen and You Know It, The Gender Wheel, Bye Bye, Binary, and They, She, He, Easy as ABC—promote this basic narrative. Though Drag Queen Story Hour events are often billed as “family-friendly,” Kornstein and Keenan explain that this is a form of code: “It may be that DQSH is ‘family friendly,’ in the sense that it is accessible and inviting to families with children, but it is less a sanitizing force than it is a preparatory introduction to alternate modes of kinship. Here, DQSH is ‘family friendly’ in the sense of ‘family’ as an old-school queer code to identify and connect with other queers on the street.” That is, the goal is not to reinforce the biological family but to facilitate the child’s transition into the ideological family. After the norms of gender, sexuality, marriage, and family are called into question, the drag queen can begin replacing this system of values with “queer ways of knowing and being.” Kornstein and Keenan make no bones about it: the purpose of what they call drag pedagogy, or the “pedagogy of desire,” is about reformulating children’s relationship with sex, sexuality, and eroticism. They describe drag as a “site of queer pleasure” that promises to “turn rejection into desire” and “[transform] the labour of performance into the pleasure of participation,” and DQSH as offering a “queer relationality” between adult and child. They litter their paper with sexualized language and double entendres, blurring the lines between adult sexuality and childhood innocence. In fact, as the queer pedagogist Hannah Dyer has written, queer pedagogy and, by extension, drag pedagogy seek to expose the very concept of “childhood innocence” as an oppressive heteropatriarchal illusion. “ From your cite it had nothing to do with British tolerence. It had to do with British control. It was the fear of Parliamentary supremacy that made the Quebec Act a lightning rod for colonial anger. The Quebec Act proved to American colonists what they already believed—the British were not afraid to restrict colonial governments To be more accurate I said you had disdain for Canada's history, heritage and traditions. That's kind of funny because I've often thought what you type is pretty arrogant too.

Never makes sense, does it. So by their logic... the first iteration of society was the best and it was been in continual decline since then. These conservatives came along much later than this first iteration and so they themselves were born into one of these periods of decline.

Entrenching an advantage for one gender or group through policies is a recipe for contempt. We can’t socially engineer equality any further by giving extra advantages to certain groups because we’re now seeing the results: disenfranchisement and resentment. It has to stop. Our legislation/policies have gone too far.

Were the Jews who fought the British government in Palestine terrorists? Ditto the Irish before 1921? Is every Kurd that Erdogan wants back from Sweden a terrorist? It’s in the eye of the beholder a bit, isn’t it? How often is George Washington described as a traitor? Very few Brits or Canadians do that because it might cost them business but he was. The key thing is to be a successful traitor or terrorist - then you can change how your previous actions are characterized.

THERE IS NOT A CONSENSUS. Far from it. You think there is because you are only being exposed to the small number of professionals who have agreed to promote a certain narrative, while those who disagree are being censored and silenced.

Find a way to end voter fraud and make our elections legal and we'll fix it, for sure. In the meantime, dream BIG.

You're right. I don't care for you're warped version of reality. It's hate-based and poisonous.

If I own a bible I'll destroy it if I want. None of your business. It's a bound piece of literature sold by a publisher, just like every other book.

1. I did read all of the excerpt you posted. I assume they are going to connect these schools of thought to all drag shows and drag shows for children at some point. It's just tenuous to do that. It's not honest to say that drag shows are intended to promote perversion, based on that. If you follow that guilt-by-association method of breaking down influence, anything can be said to be anything. 2. Right - I stand corrected. It was British control they resented. That said, the point about British inclusion is addressed here. 3. Ok, but again you are mischaracterizing me. I think I have at least shown that I connect our current appetite for social cohesion to our past. 4. And yet I don't assume I'm better than you, or that you can be pigeonholed as being against Canada on some level because I don't subscribe to the same attitudes as you. I respect people enough to engage with them, as long as they don't troll.