The Trudeau government yesterday welcomed the news that extreme-right personality Faith Goldy had been voted off Facebook Island. That's to be expected. After all, it would be hard to find a crew more outspoken in their anti-fascist virtue signalling than Justin's social justice warriors.
Meanwhile, the decision to extend Canada's military mission to Ukraine passed virtually unnoticed when it was announced last month. We're all-in to help the plucky Ukrainians ward off Putin's aggression, after all.
Whenever the fascist tendencies in Ukrainian politics become a topic of conversation, our media are quick to offer scathing denials from folks like Paul Grod and Lloyd Axworthy. Lies, slander, and Putinist propaganda; not a word of truth to it, they claim.
That's usually enough to stop the conversation in its tracks.
Yet the story never completely goes away. Here's an article from The Nation, which as far as I know is not one of Putin's disinformation outlets; Neo-Nazis and far right on the march in Ukraine. The writer obviously forgot to fact-check with Lloyd and Paul.
Here's a news story from Germany a couple of years back; The Brotherhood of Racists and Anti-Semites. According to the story, Ukraine is the go-to destination for young white-power aficionados across Europe hoping to get training and inspiration.
Our government spends our tax dollars training the Ukrainian military. Elements in the Ukrainian military then pass along that military training to violent extremists drawn to Ukraine from across Europe.
What they'll do with that training remains to be seen...
Your tax dollars at work!
Hey Neumann! Heading your way for this "Can't be missed" Academic conference in Toronto! Here are some hi-lites:
ReplyDeleteCity-Journal reports "more than 14,000 academics will gather in Toronto to share their research for the American Education Research Association’s annual conference". Some of the symposiums offered are:
A symposium called “The Interrogation of Whiteness in Progressive Public Schools” promises to explore “the experience of teachers and education leaders who work to undo whiteness in public schools.” A featured paper in that session is “Trust, Community, and Dismantling White Dominance.” Another, “Critical-Race Elementary Schooling: Teacher Change Agents are Undoing Whiteness in Elementary Schools,” celebrates teachers who “actively resist elements of Whiteness.”
“Marking the Invisible: Articulating Whiteness in Social Studies” promises that participants will “call out the strategies deployed by white supremacy and acknowledge the depths by which it is used to control, manipulate, confine, and define identities, communities, citizenships, and historical narratives” in order to “promote justice-oriented teaching and learning.”
Hope there is some space!