Woke Politics Push Canadian School Principal To Commit Suicide
"Ideological enforcers work closely with local race activists and media allies to harass or censor educators and parents accused of wrongthink.”
Toronto School Principal Richard Bilkszto's career as an educator spanned 24 years, in which time he was an advocate for anti-discrimination and public education. Last Thursday, at the age of 60, he took his own life.
“His stellar career took on a sour note after he was bullied in a diversity, equity and inclusion training session for Toronto District School Board (TDSB) administrators in 2021."
“His sin, in the eyes of facilitators, was his questioning of their claim that Canada was a more racist place than the United States.”
Stop the press. Mr. Bilkszto's committed no crime. In no manner did he breach Canada's "hate laws" found in our Criminal Code. His actions were devoid of bigotry toward an identifiable community, nor were his actions a verbal attack on any one of Canada's "racialized" communities.
Now, after taking his own life as a result of vitriolic hatred directed toward him, the man is dead.
What has Canada become? More specifically, what has become of Canada's public education system? Seems to CAP as if the entire federal government-funded system has morphed into a neo-fascist entity.
To the point that they can drive someone to the brink of madness, resulting in a taking one's own life to escape the pain of being dragged through the politically correct mud by woke warriors in our public schools.
Historians may recognize the phenomenon from "days of old." Suicide of conscious objectors to totalitarian rule was a common occurrence in 20th century fascist Europe. Pressured by ruling authorities, some were given a choice:
Rescind and retract your anti-government statements, or die by firing squad.
Canada's neo-totalitarian educators haven't progressed quite this far, but who knows what the future portends? At the very least, public school system educators have taken on quite the authoritarian slant over the past 10 years.
It should come as no surprise that a transition in Canadian education exploded upon Justin Trudeau's ascension to the political pulpit of Canada.
Trudeau is the western world's "high priestess of woke," and from the day of his coronation, public education in Canada has systemically slipped into a condition that would be unrecognizable among students of a previous generation.
The present structure is-- no surprise here-- reminiscent of propaganda tactics employed within the education system in China. The goal being to pump out tens of millions of young Chinese brainwashed into adhering to the communist ideology forced on society by government.
Has public school education in Canada been transitioned to a reasonable facsimile of communist-style of education found in PM Trudeau's hero-nation?
"Throughout a follow-up training session the week after, facilitators repeatedly referred to Bilkszto’s comments as examples of white supremacy. "
Let readers stand witness to a leftist lie which may well have pushed the principal's mental health to the brink of madness.
"The experience was humiliating — particularly because Bilkszto placed a great emphasis on equality and anti-discrimination during his career."
By all accounts, Mr. Bilkszto was a good man. Now, he is dead after being driven to dispair by the purveyors of woke educational propaganda. It's a sad commentary on what is surely a hi-jacked society, or at the very least, a hi-jacked public education system.
Sadder still is government's reaction to the suicide. Simply put, there has been none. One might expect(CAP doesn't) some form of commentary from one or more government representatives.
CAP tally up the results:
Mayors, City Councillors, MLA's, MP's. Throw the lot of them together, and one cannot find one word of condemnation of the suicide.
“In some school boards, moreover, professional advancement is limited to those who explicitly embrace anti-racist, high anti-oppressive leadership principles."
"In some cases, these ideological enforcers work closely with local race activists and their media allies, so as to harass or censor educators and parents accused of wrongthink.”
We think back to the days of Adolph Hitler and the Nazis:
"There were to be two basic educational ideas in his ideal state. First, there must be burnt into the heart and brains of youth the sense of race. Second, youth must be made ready for war, educated for victory or death.”
"The ultimate purpose of education was to fashion citizens conscious of the glory of country and filled with fanatical devotion to the national cause."
In other words, educational policy was driven by strict adherence to ideology advanced by the state. And woke education in Trudeau's Canada differs from this in what capacity?
Yes-- tenets of the teachings have been swapped-out, yet educational goals are remarkably similar. In contemporary Canada, it's come down to a situation of "do or die."
Push back against the woke propaganda machine, and your teaching career is over. It's happened to dozens of teachers working for the TDSB and elsewhere in Canada.
At some point within our country's historical trajectory, Canada's public education system transitioned to a post-modern form of fascism.
Of course, PM Justin Trudeau has no public statement regarding the passing of Richard Blitszko. This behaviour he saves for Muslim school girls who have had their Hijabs pulled off their heads by "white supremacists."
Besides, if he did comment, it might point to the fact that among 40 million Canadian citizens, Justin Trudeau is the authority most responsible for the transition of public education in Canada to neo-fascist status.
This should go viral. I will send the article out to ppl with huge platforms and if they cover it, it will spread like wildfire. Deplorable… and Trudy sleeps satisfied at night. Knowing his garbage imposition on our lives is causing suicides.
I think if I was in a school system or a student right now, I could not go along with this mental illness. It’s like that Star Trek episode where Picard is kidnapped and shown 4 lights as a captive, but they beat him for saying there are 4 lights, until he says they are 3 lights. This is what happens in communism.
I am so glad I retired recently (January 2023) from Correctional Services Canada. The union there PSAC pushes this stuff hard! I believe Trudeau funds this DEI & ESG as it's permeated all of the public services from federal government to provincial and municipal. This is everywhere. It really started in 2017 annual training. That year was the first time since 2003 that I'd ever heard systemic racism for blacks and browns is Correctional Services Canada. We always had a focus on indigenous offenders. But this flip to blacks and browns was noticeable. There was a portion on the training that focused on how to apologize to a black coworker. That whole chapter was offensive and really racist against whites. But the union didn't care because they were pushing it.
The Liberal Gov't has always been racist against white employees in Canada. Even in 2001 I was told that I couldn't even apply for a job as a Parole Officer for Correctional Services of Canada because for the next 5 years they were mandated to hire visible minorities only. In other words, the service was not hiring white Parole Officers for the next 5 years. Had I complained or gone to human rights I would have been black balled. So I took the advice of the human resources person and applied as a Correctional Officer (gaurd), a job that payed much less and that didn't require a university degree. That's how I got into the Service. I had to compete for a Parole Officer job from within the organization to finally get an Indeterminate position as a PO in 2007. They don't hold competitions every year either. I had to wait. So for 4 years while paying my student loans, I worked sets of 7 days on 3 days off, 7 days on 4 days off that rotated from midnight, to days, to evenings in the prison as a CX, for much less pay. Because I met all the requirements to he a Parole Officer, I had the university degree, post graduate studies also, in the designated area of Sociology, and I had 3 years experience as a Probation & Parole Officer with the provincial government from years prior (1998-2001) I was able to work the odd Acting Parole Officer spots when someone went on maternity leave. I remember competing with other applicants from internal competitions who got extra credit for being a visible minority candidate. I also remember having to train other visible minority new hires for openings I couldn't apply for because I am white. They walked in off the street with no experience, just a degree, and took job opportunities that should have gone to me. I had the education & experience and I met all the criteria and then some as I was also a CX in the prison with very specific case management skills. That's system racism. I always said that Canada was not systemically racist, but I was wrong. It was. But not for blacks. The federal government has always done systemically racist stuff to whites. But it has gotten even worse. With this DEI and ESG mandatory training and having to work with these candidates who do play the race card (not all do but will if it gives them an advantage). And in my experience working with these ones, their work was lousy. They weren't educated enough, skilled enough, and they wrote terrible reports, and should have never been hired. That's what happens when merit hires in competitions go out the window. So the stress and heartbreak that comes with all that, is damaging to a career. It affects whites directly in the worst possible ways, and it had a huge impact on my pension. These coworkers got the higher paying jobs years before me, they got management jobs they weren't qualified to have. It's pretty bad when I have to train a supervisor to supervise me because I have the education, experience, knowledge they don't. So when the Service tells me I have to learn how to apologize to a black coworker, that's more than I am willing to take. I walked out of the training, finished it later (online) and then retired soon after. That kind of abuse in the workplace, having people rub their skin color entitlements in your face regardless of how hard I worked was more than anyone should have to bear in this country. I'm not sure exactly why this white man killed himself, what other pressures compounded his situation, but I can understand how he must have felt.