“Wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It basically gives people a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue.”
Elon Musk, widely quoted, not always verbatim, but Snopes has the relevant clip at https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/elon-musk-wokeness/
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Crack-Up [according to https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/64918-the-test-of-a-first-rate-intelligence-is-the-ability-to] [and one of those I don’t agree with, but widespread elite conviction that it is true helps explain the mess we’re in today]
In my latest National Post column I say the best way to get universities to stop promoting malevolent radicalism and start teaching again, and to promote actual social justice as well, is to privatize them and see what kind of education the young adults who will supposedly benefit from it are actually willing to pay full price for.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say much of the left was caught offside on Hamas because ideas have consequences and they have embraced ones that lead to terrible places.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the latest attack on Israel exposes Hamas starkly as an offence against man and God … along with anyone that supports or excuses it, Islamic Jihad or any such genocidal antisemitic organization or government.
“‘His imperfections flowed from the contagion of the times: his virtues were his own.’“
Edward Gibbon on Belisarius, cited in George F. Kennan American Diplomacy 1900-1950
In my latest Epoch Times column I say Justin Trudeau accusing India of carrying out a “hit” in Canada needs to be backed by evidence the public is allowed to see rather than his usual hyperbolic petulance.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the Peel District School Board purging all books written before 2008 is a worrying red flag about what’s happening in government schools… and I do mean red.