#Cancel canada

[nervousenby]

I am so goddamn scared.

[gay-jesus-probably]

Guess what I learned today!

Yeah, of the 10 oldest fossil deposits on earth, 4 of them are in Canada, and 4 of them are in Australia, including the two oldest - the Apex Chert formation of western Australia and the Gunflint Chert around the north shore of Lake Superior is the only examples of fossils from the Archaen geologic era, aka the microbes that formed the very first life on this planet.

(The other two countries in the top ten are Morocco, which has 7th place with a deposit of early Cambrian trilobites, and the USA, which is in 9th place from a quarry in Wisconsin.)

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

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[mizugucci]

not to be selfish (yes) if the ONF tour in north america is canceled I really might have to kill myself

[damnesdelamer]

Happy Land Back Day!

Read Decolonization Is Not A Metaphor by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang

[thoughtportal]

Student Debt and affirmative action

https://www.democracynow.org/

[theupfish]

No Canadian school ever canceled any event with Nadia Murad

Nadia Murad is a Yazidi survivor of the 2014 Yazidi genocide by ISIS. She is now an activist and Nobel Piece Prize winner.

Earlier this year, posts began to circulate social media, claiming that her visit to a Canadian school was canceled, for "fear of spreading Islamophobia."

Well....

https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.34RW8MG

Nadia Murad never even had any events scheduled in Canada to begin with. The story is as fake as the roadkill on Trump's head. Somebody pulled it right outta' their bum.

The oppression of the Yazidi people could definitely use some more attention, though.

[drindrak]

cannot believe i have to wait for the next act in the age of bingeable tv

[sunbackeddog]

I finally completed the first leg of my holy grail.... It only took three years

[slythereen]

charles leclerc said no thanks we're doing what I want today oh i am living

[insomniacs-keyboard]

My sister and I just drove 9 and a half hours (it was supposed to be 6 and a half but there's flash floods everywhere) to see Greenday in concert and we just found out that Billie lost his voice and they've canceled the show and rescheduled it for next month

[captainrayzizuniverse]

Ok I will forever be a torontonian and could never love Vancouver enough to move but damn this is the first time I’m actually sad to go back home. Thank god for Simsom honestly or I would’ve postponed my ticket or something. 🔪Ho hum as the talented mr.Labrinth would say ‘I’m.in.my.feeeels’

[shiningwonho]

when monsta x are back and they go on their next tour toronto BETTER be on it

[literally-leo]

i’m americanizing you now. you’re american now. american beam to cancel out the canadian beam

caw caw

high blood pressure is in and maple syrup is out

🇺🇸 🦅 what the fuck is a kilometerrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

o the rockets red glare

the bombs bursting in air,,finish the lyrics right now brutha

- @and-cassiopeia

chat.

i think.

i think I'm bri'sh.

😭

[theculturalvacuum]

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

Thank you, but I didn’t actually get cancelled in any meaningful way. Valiant attempts were made to drown me (figuratively), but since I don’t have a job I can’t be fired, I’m a tough old bat, I’m too elderly to give much of a poop about my future “career,” it’s not the first hanging party and book-burning featuring myself, and it seems that my Dear Readers were having none of it. Thank you, Dear Readers. It is for you, after all, that I write, not for some craven scholar trying to save her own behind by beating herself up in public for having built her reputation on studies of my oevre. (You know who you are. I accept apologies.) Why the posse tried to take me down: I signed (and refused to retract, Bad Me!) an open letter to the University of British Columbia (“UBC Accountable”) calling for due and fair process for writer Stephen Galloway, who had been accused — dubiously, it now strongly appears —of rape –a violent criminal act, lest we forget. Nine years later, this claim has still to be thoroughly investigated in a court of law, due to the prolonged and frantic efforts by those being sued for defamation to keep such a trial from happening. But enough preliminary court cases have gone on so that a number of folks have now reversed their snap judgments, and some have gone full Mea Culpa. You can read all about it in Brad Cran’s Substack called Truth and Consequences; start at the bottom and scroll up. It just gets worse and worse. What was amazing to me was the casualness with which the posse — mostly academics — tossed the Declaration of Human Rights and the Canadian Rights and Freedoms out the window, with cries of “Burn it all down” and the like. But every sword has three sides: your side, the other side, and the Oh Shit! side you didn’t anticipate. Some are now beginning to smoulder themselves, as folks set fire to their feet. Darn, where are those Rights and Freedoms now that a person might need them?

The novelist Margaret Atwood responds in an acerbic style to the attacks she received for having called for due process when the writer Stephen Galloway was accused of rape.

The fact that calling for due process was treated like a crime, while presuming an accusation was true without due process was treated as normal behaviour, shows the level of dystopian tyranny that has overtaken Canadian institutions.

It shows how academics are at the forefront of trashing fundamental pillars of civilisation for the sake of their own ideologies and malignant self-righteousness, which includes smearing and threatening anyone who dares to disagree.

When we acknowledge that many malign tyrannies have been spearheaded by academics (Nazi racism was promulgated by German academics in the 1920's; China's Revolution of 1949 thrived in the universities), then we cannot be surprised by examples such as this.

Such conduct wouldn't be nearly as effective if so many refused to be intimidated and toe the line. When the majority are cowards more concerned about their reputations than about justice, brave voices such as that of Atwood and others who have dared to displease the disciples of currently fashionable movements are seen as radicals: easy to intimidate, abuse, and threaten.

It's time for people to stand up to such intellectual thuggery by defending freedom of speech and the right to the presumption of innocence. When the bullies see that people have a backbone and can't be threatened into silence, they lose their repugnant air of impunity and imagined righteousness.