Last week the modern-day witch hunters took up their pitchforks, their torches, their puritan capes and their Woke bibles and dashed to save the world from the devil in their midst.
The Witchfinder General, Sandy Nemeth, the chairwoman of the ultra-woke Louis Riel School Board trustees, announced proudly that trustee Francine Champagne had been suspended for three months, the most serious punishment the board could impose.
Her crime? Did she cast spells? Did she own a black cat? Did she dance at the crossroads with Beelzebub at midnight?
No. She posted on Facebook. Those posts allegedly, as CTV news quoted Nemeth, had "a strong transphobic sentiment" and were disrespectful of the LGBTQ2S+ community.
Trustee Ryan Palmquist was more specific on CBC. "... those gay kids and transgender kids and their families and the whole community that are the ones who are at risk. They're the ones who are potentially subject to bullying, potentially subject to violence."
Did trustee Champagne call for violence against gay children or their families? Did she push some girl around in the schoolyard? Did she take some boy's lunch money?
No. In fact, the communications manager for the school division told CTV news that the official reason for her suspension " is due to breaching the Board Code of Conduct, specific to social media use and disregarding Policy AC: Respect for Human Diversity,"
Of course, we immediately looked up both of them.
The school division's Code of Conduct applies to students ("We will be on time and prepared to learn. We will attend school regularly. We will work and play safely at all times.") And Policy AC: Respect forHuman Diversity addresses students and staff:
The Division’s staff has the responsibility to promote respect for human sexual diversity, and to support learning environments and workplaces that are free of negative conduct or actions based on gender bias, sexual stereotyping, sexual orientation and/or gender identity.
The Division expects students to support safe and inclusive learning environments by respecting human diversity and refraining from expressing negative conduct or actions based on gender bias, sexual stereotyping, sexual orientation and/or gender identity.
Since Trustee Champagne, a duly elected official, is neither a student nor staff, these applications don't apply to her. In other words, she has been illegally deprived of a salary by a rogue school board.
Why, we wondered, would the Louis Riel school Board go to that extent to publicly humiliate one of their own members? We soon found out.
In 2019 the LRSD adopted a four-year plan to indoctrinate their students into a "Culture" of "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism." For the uninitiated, this is literally a radical plan to redesign society into a bizarre left-wing Brave New World.
Do you think that's going too far? Keep reading.
The first step has been to redefine language.
Anti-racism doesn't mean opposing racism, it means people with white skins must accept that they are white supremacists and be treated as such.
Equity doesn't mean treating all people as equals, it means minorities, however unqualified, must be put into positions of power because to say otherwise is to support white supremacy. In fact, qualifications such as punctuality, spelling, grammar, and education are methods that white supremacists use to keep minorities down.
Diversity doesn't mean welcoming people from other countries and other cultures in to the community. It means not judging people with different, often disgusting, sexual orientations and behaviour who demand attention to themselves.
Former Winnipeg mayor Glen Murray bragged openly about his promiscuous sex life outside of his marriage to a man, only to discover that his staff at the Pembina Institute weren't inclusive of his diversity and they got him fired.
Woke educators use this misdirection of language to claim they have the support of the public. After all, who's against anti-racism and inclusion? But they use this confusion over the meanings of words to indoctrinate children into their world view.
When we dived deeper into the philosophy behind the Louis Riel School Boards culture plan, we got an education even we weren't expecting. It can be summed up in two words: Paulo Feire.
Who? Exactly what we said.
Paulo Freire was a Marxist revolutionary whose book was called Pedagogy of the Oppressed. His main point was that capitalist society is based on oppression. Workers are oppressed, women are oppressed, racial minorities are oppressed and, boy, are sexual minorities ever oppressed.
Freire put education front and centre in fighting the white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal society that oppresses everyone to maintain itself.
“All education is political; teaching is never a neutral act” was one of his commandments. Students must liberate themselves and become social justice warriors, he said. The LRSD has heard the call.
At the top of the list for educators is to destroy the virtual concept of heterosexuality and heronormality. Children grow up thinking that traditional boy-girl relations are normal. And normal means good. And good means right. And that means that everything outside of that relationship is wrong and bad, said Freire. That mind-set must be abolished in order to be inclusive and equitable.
The LRSD has started by teaching that there are no sexes. No male; no female. Only gender. Which is "on a spectrum" and "fluid". So you can be a boy one day, a girl the next, or a combination of both, or neither the third. That's equity. No discrimination.
The schools' GSAs, gay-straight alliance clubs have been officially renamed 'gender sexuality alliance' clubs as a first step.
Anyone who disagrees with this school division orthodoxy is a heretic.
Trustee Champagnes sin was heresy. And heretics must be burned.
Her colleague Ryan Palmquist told CBC "Our board suspended trustee Champagne, it was good that what we did. The board sent a strong message to the families in the division."
Perhaps he said more than he intended. The message sent was that opposition to the bizarre theories the school board intends to inculcate in students in their division will not be tolerated. Parents who speak out will be crushed, publicly reviled with the help of the Winnipeg Free Press, branded as "hateful".
We'll have more revelations on this issue so stay tuned.