At first, Jean-Pierre did not understand. He watched the evening news, paid his taxes, voted responsibly and believed what respectable people told him. 1. France needed immigration because the economy needed workers. 2. Diversity was an opportunity. 3. Public services were under pressure because they lacked funding. 4. Disorder at school was caused by inequality. 5. Crime statistics required context. 6. Anyone who connected these things too quickly was probably an extremist. Then his children started coming home from school saying they could barely hear the teacher. Half the lesson was spent restoring order. Teachers changed constantly. Some simply disappeared for weeks. Jean-Pierre complained once, politely. The administration explained that the situation was “challenging” and that the school was developing an “inclusive pedagogical response.” Jean-Pierre went home reassured. There were professionals dealing with it. His neighbourhood changed too. Shops closed. Others appeared. Groups of men occupied the same corners every evening. His wife stopped taking one street after dark. Jean-Pierre noticed all of this, but he had also learned that noticing patterns was dangerous. So every event remained an isolated event. One closed shop meant nothing. One assault meant nothing. Ten incidents meant ten unrelated incidents. Only a racist would connect dots. Then his daughter was sexually assaulted by a man who had recently arrived in France. Jean-Pierre was devastated. But almost immediately he began policing his own thoughts. The attacker was an individual. Of course. One must never generalise. The television explained that exploiting such crimes politically was irresponsible. A minister warned against “stigmatisation.” Jean-Pierre found himself nodding through tears. What had happened to his daughter was monstrous, but the truly frightening possibility, apparently, was that somebody somewhere might vote for the wrong party because of it. Nothing changed. His son’s school became worse. His daughter stopped going out alone. His wife wanted to move. The police were exhausted. The teachers were exhausted. The hospitals were exhausted. Jean-Pierre was exhausted. Yet every explanation he had been given required him to believe that each deterioration was temporary, accidental, exaggerated or caused by something entirely unrelated to the deterioration immediately beside it. And whenever somebody proposed that perhaps the country had made serious mistakes — about migration, authority, education, policing, integration, punishment or borders — Jean-Pierre knew the correct answer. “Careful. That sounds like the far right.” So he remained reasonable. He remained moderate. He remained informed. He remained completely incapable of drawing a conclusion from his own life. So at first, Jean-Pierre did not understand. And he still does not understand.

“Create an image of what the world would look like if I were in charge, based on my tweets.”

My stand on land acknowledgments

Any minute they will notice that there are no Caucasians anywhere & they will impose quotas to ensure "diversity" Right? Right!?

Every day yields some new systemic social horror that has never, ever happened in Canada before, and millions think the country is doing great. A nation's soul is dying before their eyes and they look away.

Toxic masculinity gets checked by other men or reality, whereas toxic femininity is self-reinforcing and sustained by women and effeminized men. That’s why it has so successfully taken over universities, HR departments, NGOs and politics. It silently hollows out civilization from the inside, forcing people to take notice only when the decline becomes existential.

It is dismal and embarrassing that Canada has joined eleven other Western countries in a futile and shameful gesture of sanctions against goods from areas of the West Bank recently settled by Israelis. The accompanying reassertion of support for a two-state solution is pure pomposity. The Palestinians are not a distinct nationality. They are a group of primarily Muslim and some Christian Arab stragglers of the old League of Nations Mandate who were not absorbed into the neighbouring states. The idea of a Palestinian state was popularized by Nasser as a ploy to inflame hostility to Israel and distract Arab populations from the misgovernment of their own rulers. The tragedy of the Palestinians is that their own leaders, whether of the PLO or Hamas, have never wanted a two state solution. They stubbornly insist on one state with no Jews in it. Israel was established by the United Nations, on the joint initiative of the United States and the Soviet Union, specifically as a Jewish state in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust. No member of the United Nations has clearer legitimacy. These unenforceable, virtue signaling sanctions, such that they have any impact at all, will fall hardest on the many Palestinians who work in Israel and return daily to the West Bank. These countries have never applied similar strictures to China, Russia, or the numerous dictatorships that practice far worse oppressions. Israel is unique in the region as a democracy that upholds individual rights more scrupulously than any of its neighbours. This gesture of symbolic impotence reveals the moral collapse of much of the West and the readiness of governments, including our own, to truckle to the most unsavoury pressures. Canadians should be ashamed of this antisemitic fellow-traveling.

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I spent 30 years in academia. Here are my observations about my students. Toward the end, I was teaching “Gen Z." These students combined ignorance with strident moral certainty. They seemed to have had no general education at all, and lacked the most basic knowledge of history, even recent history. They were immature and emotionally fragile. Many could not handle criticism, no matter how sugar coated. It took very little to reduce them to tears – or to send them into a fit of narcissistic rage. They were shockingly bereft of intellectual curiosity, and many gave the impression of having no internal life at all. I'll share more observations later.

Normalize shaming commies