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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Kendi is one evil son-of-a-bitch.
Toronto principal killed himself after being singled out during DEI training
Hotair ^ | 07/24/2023 | John Sexton
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?
It’s name was, Kike? Seriously?
Who is Kendi?
The proper acronym is ‘DIE”, not DEI...
— Lenin
I dunno about that....
Probably pronounced “keekee” ... but the spelling is not something I’d want to be tagged with.
Not only are they marxists who want us dead, they are trolling us while they do it.
They are following the blueprint of The Cultural Revolution to a T.
Absolutely.
The evil creature's name is Kike Ojo ...
So it gives itself some (false) color of credibility by claiming to be an "Institute".
As is Kike Ojo-Thompson.
And where does “Kike Ojo-Thompson” get off having such an anti-Semitic and pejorative first name? The bastard should have been called out on that and demands made to change that evil name to something more inclusive.
No surprise this happened in Nazi Canuckistan.
So now we know the reason why “DEI consultants” have been given power over people who are working hard and doing a good job precisely so that those people can be harassed and made to accept the fact that their job doesn’t depend on merit, but on how well one conforms to the new religion of woke.
“Kike Ojo-Thompson..”
“Kike”?
Killing yourself over some DEI doofuses sounds to me had had more psyche issues than this reason.
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