Posted on 09/11/2021 7:06:08 PM PDT by blam
We recently discussed how many on the left have discovered the allure of book burning, book banning, and blacklisting of authors. While expressing shock at ISIS and other extremist groups burning books, the practice appears acceptable based on the titles or content. Now educators in Ontario have held a “flame purification ceremony” for the local indigenous population by burning roughly 5,000 books.
The notion of teachers burning books is almost as bizarre as the thought of book sellers embracing blacklisting but both are now part of the realities of our age of rage.These school officials actually videotaped the celebration of book burning for students at 30 schools with the announcement that “We bury the ashes of racism, discrimination and stereotypes in the hope that we will grow up in an inclusive country where all can live in prosperity and security.”
The announcement even has a type of Maoist cultural revolution feel to it. In addition, Lyne Cosette, a spokeswoman for the public French-speaking Catholic schools of Ontario, told the National Post newspaper, “Symbolically, some books were used as fertilizer.” The entire demonstration was a disgrace to educators everywhere. The lesson of book burning left with these children will likely be indelible and lasting. I have worried about the rise of a generation of censors but the Catholic schools of Ontario appear intent on raising a generation of book burners.
No administrators or teachers were fired for teaching thousands of kids to be book burners. While other Canadians have voiced their disgust, there is no indication from the Catholic schools that such individuals are fundamentally unsuited to teach children. I would defend any one of them who sought to burn books or flags as a form of free speech despite my disgust for such actions. However, teaching and celebrating book burning is a rejection of the very essence of learning.
What is truly chilling is the Orwellian call for children to burn books in order to be a more “inclusive country.”
I wish I had been there with a loudspeaker and a recording of the Horst Wessel hymn.
CC
Time to burn the “new” Canadian Flag....
And I’m TOTALLY in favor of Maple trees [and Syrup....]
Purely-symbolic voodoo.
No one has read Fahrenheit 451, apparently.
The Nazi’s were book burners.
English is the language of racism, discrimination and stereotypes.
They should not be allowed to speak this language...French too, for that matter.
That's probably one of the ones they burned.
At this point, I am pretty sure there are more Catholic schools than there are actual Catholics in French Canada.
This should be absolutely unacceptable to anyone who reads, thinks, and values freedom.
It was burned, too. Those book people in the woods are subversive, you know.
Nazis gotta be Nazis. The Socialists are feeling their power again. The new Jews are the conservatives,
and the old Jews will be herded onto the cattle cars with them. Like the persecuted in Nazi Germany,
we will go to the showers bleating like sheep.
boko haram in canada
cool Let’s celebrate the days of infanticide, kidnapping, forced marriages, rape, spontaneous grudge wars, torturing, skinning, burning and scalping of enemies, seasonal starvation, cannibalism, and working women to death. Sounds great.
These people's major quality is their incredible stupidity combined with a superiority complex.
Inclusive means excluding the majority of people. Same commie tactics they use here.
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