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Principal Commits Suicide After DEI Consultants Get Hold of Him, Family and Friends Left 'Reeling'
thefederalistpapers.org ^ | July 25, 2023 | Peter Partoll

Posted on 07/25/2023 10:22:40 AM PDT by lowbridge

A retired Canadian principal has taken his life after relentless bullying by a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant hired by his district.

On Thursday, attorney Lisa Bildy took to Twitter to break the sad news that her client, 60-year-old Richard Bilkszto, a former principal with the Toronto District School Board had committed suicide.

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Bilkszto retired in 2019, but continued to do contract work for the school district. However, Bildy said that he “suffered an affront to [his] stellar reputation in the spring of 2021, causing him severe mental distress.”

“Unfortunately, the stress and effects of these incidents continued to plague Richard,” Bildy said. “Last week, he succumbed to this distress.

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The “affront” the Bildy referred to came at the hands of a DEI consultant hired by the district named Kike Ojo-Thompson, founder of the woke KOJO Institute, which helps institutions with DEI initiatives.

According to National Review, in one of the “equity sessions” hosted by Ojo-Thompson, Bilkszto challenged her claim that Canada was an institutionally racist country. Ojo-Thompson responded to Bilkszto by lambasting him for his whiteness.

Another DEI expert joined in, National Review reported, scolding Bilkszto with the line, “if you want to be an apologist for the U.S. or Canada, this is really not the forum for that.”

Following the session, the school board issued a statement commending Ojo-Thompson for modeling how to overcome “resistance” to DEI initiatives, and in later meetings, Ojo-Thompson continued to single out Bilkszto’s comments as a form of “resistance,” National Review reported.

Bilkszto later sued the school board, demanding an investigation into the consultant’s behavior, which the board refused. However, the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, an Ontario insurance collective, did investigate and ruled that Ojo-Thompson’s conduct did constitute bullying, National Review reported.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: canada; dei; education
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Weak men create hard times.


41 posted on 07/25/2023 11:03:23 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: Osage Orange

Ibram X. Kendi, originator of all this “DEI” nonsense.


42 posted on 07/25/2023 11:04:10 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: lowbridge

Sad.


43 posted on 07/25/2023 11:05:29 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never bghte aBernie slave in a new Socialist America)
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To: cgbg

DEI is a sham. The offices themselves are not diverse and they are not equitable. Let them model the true meaning of DEI before they attempt to impose their egocentric models on others.


44 posted on 07/25/2023 11:06:22 AM PDT by Lou Foxwell (It takes a uniquely Marxist mind to deny Trump's call to patriotism.)
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To: Lou Foxwell

She thinks DEI gives her the right to do this to whitey ,she should be sued


45 posted on 07/25/2023 11:10:01 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: butlerweave
She thinks DEI gives her the right to do this to whitey ,she should be sued

Or worse. A blanket party at the very least.

46 posted on 07/25/2023 11:13:27 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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Kike Ojo-Thompson.
Canada gave up on borders, language, culture and lost all three.
47 posted on 07/25/2023 11:15:04 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: All

Once somebody gets this DEI mumbo jumbo playing non-stop in their head, they turn into a complete idiot.

A few years ago I was playing golf with some people including a guy who is native Indian. I happened to hole out a 30 yard wedge shot, and this guy unleashed an insane torrent of claims that I had made this shot because of white privilege and lessons only available to white men. I don’t think he was kidding. It did not drive me to suicide, I just called him a dumh goof and moved on.


48 posted on 07/25/2023 11:16:05 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (It's tough non-work but somebody (Congress) has not to do it. )
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To: freedomson

‘It’s name was, Kike? Seriously?’

yeah, really; and he’s got a sister named Jewdi...


49 posted on 07/25/2023 11:18:21 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: lowbridge
Kike Ojo-Thompson: murderer There was a case in Ma where a girl found guilty of bullying her boyfriend into commit suicide. These anti white Red Guard struggle sessions need to be banned.

50 posted on 07/25/2023 11:20:19 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: lowbridge

You can bet she’s doing this to a lot of people she hates


51 posted on 07/25/2023 11:31:10 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: lowbridge

Poor guy he though he was living in the sane world of his youth.


52 posted on 07/25/2023 11:40:37 AM PDT by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: butlerweave

Be interested to know your opinion of this prior case brought against Rutgers student Dharun Ravi (Tyler Clementi suicide) and how it compares to the tragedy being discussed here:

https://patch.com/new-jersey/ridgewood/teen-died-suicide-bullying-over-sexuality-killed-him


53 posted on 07/25/2023 11:41:10 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: who knows what evil?
"The proper acronym is ‘DIE”, not DEI..."

Unless that was sarcasm or a joke, it is DEI as in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion.

54 posted on 07/25/2023 11:53:14 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: kaila
"Killing yourself over some DEI doofuses sounds to me had[he] had more psyche issues than this reason.'

I agree.

55 posted on 07/25/2023 11:55:46 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: Bonemaker

Not so unusual.

“Kike” (KEE-kay) Hernandez.

Shortstop for the Boston Red Sox.


56 posted on 07/25/2023 12:08:39 PM PDT by T. Rustin Noone (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: blackdog

Or take the offenders and not commit suicide. :-)


57 posted on 07/25/2023 12:14:07 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Boogieman

no idea who this is.............


58 posted on 07/25/2023 12:14:48 PM PDT by Osage Orange (b)
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To: proust
Surprisingly, she is a lovely looking lady compared to the vast majority of leftist, socialist, communists, and racist black women with their awful bitter hateful mugs.

This is a good example of you can't "judge a book by it's cover". She's good looking outside, but ugly inside. Of course you find the reverse: Ugly outside but beautiful within.

59 posted on 07/25/2023 12:17:36 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: PGR88

If you are going to kill yourself over distress caused by insane, woke DEI red guards, wouldn’t it at least make sense to take the offenders with you when you go?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.
Excellent observation!


60 posted on 07/25/2023 12:21:50 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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