Principal Commits Suicide After DEI Consultants Get Hold of Him, Family and Friends Left 'Reeling'

thefederalistpapers.org ^ | July 25, 2023 | Peter Partoll

[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.

[who knows what evil?]

It was a joke...

[Grampa Dave]

More than most of us want to know about:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Kike+Ojo-Thompson..%E2%80%9D&rlz=1CAPUVO_enUS1052US1052&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[fortes fortuna juvat]

What is missing in this is: IT WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH TO THESE TYRANTS.
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Every word of your post is well and truly said, and is why I believe that people who allow themselves to be subjected to the attacks of these monsters deserve what they get.

[MeganC]

Today’s Canadians are fragile, delicate things wholly unrelated to the people who were once feared by the Nazis.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

“Killing yourself over some DEI doofuses sounds to me had[he] had more psyche issues than this reason.’

I agree.
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DEI in my view exposes vulnerable individuals who are dreadfully lacking in any real sense of their own self worth!

[quilterdebbie]

I don’t know how that lady got that name. The name is pronounced in two syllables. Usually the “e” has an accent mark over it. Pronounced “KEE-kay”. A nickname for people named Enrique - like the baseball player Kike Hernandez.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kike_(disambiguation)

[dfwgator]

DEI in my view exposes vulnerable individuals who are dreadfully lacking in any real sense of their own self worth!

Easy to say when you're riding high. I'm sure this guy thought he was 'riding high' too, and then saw it all crash because of this crap. I don't think it was so much losing the job, it's seeing the betrayal from people you trusted for so many years.

[A Navy Vet]

Thanks. I suspected so, but the left with their progressive programs and new acronyms can get confusing. Just researched DOD for DEI. Theirs is Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI).

[fortes fortuna juvat]

I don’t think it was so much losing the job, it’s seeing the betrayal from people you trusted for so many years.
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Probably true, but still, it’s sad to see how some people are induced to destroy themselves due to circumstances over which they have no control.

[wafflehouse]

a black female no less

https://learning.kojoinstitute.com/

[imardmd1]

"You have to break eggs in order to make an omelet!"

Well, yes. that is a bit of a loss to the hen; but for the pig it is a real sacrifice . . .

[absalom01]

Her first name is Enrique?

[T. Rustin Noone]

Maybe?

What could be more DEI correct than a tranny counselor?

[absalom01]

Point taken

[Tom Tetroxide]

Those Chi-Com struggle sessions are getting tougher all the time!