Who cares what he thinks?

Vincent J. Curtis

21 July 21

RE: Dismantle symbols of the past like Dundas signs, says prof.  News item by Jon Wells, Hamilton Spectator 21 July 21.

Amiel Joseph is a Mac professor of Social Work who research areas include postcolonial theory and critical race theory.  Straightaway, you know that Prof Joseph is engaged in those fake disciplines that Roger Scruton, and others (including Jordon Peterson) warned us about.  There is no scholarship in these fake disciplines, only the insistence of conformity to an underlying political orthodoxy, and pretentions to authority.

The story alleges certain things that ring false.  John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, is a bad guy because he “was involved in the colonial project.”  Well, duh!  Simcoe signed into law in 1793 a bill from the legislature that abolished slavery in Upper Canada.  Which brings us to the Jarvis family who allegedly owned slaves and the Hatt family which allegedly traded slaves.  Really?  When?  I dispute that.  It certainly couldn’t have happened in Upper Canada after 1793.  Show me the original scholarship, if you can!

Dundas allegedly delayed the abolition of slavery.  In fact, Dundas saved the bill abolishing slavery which would have been defeated in the British House of Commons had he not added the word ‘gradually’ before the word 'abolish.'  For his political sagacity that saved the abolition bill, Dundas gets condemned by modern-day fanatics and fools for whom facts are optional.

We are faced with an onslaught on attacks on Canada’s treasured history.  Macdonald’s statue has to be torn down.  Dundas has to be removed from memory, like in Stalinist Russia.  Residential schools are the very worst thing ever perpetrated on earth.  John Graves Simcoe is bad, Jarvis, Henry Bathurst, Samuel Hatt: bad, bad, bad!  Everyone is a colonizer, a settler, and an oppressor, except Blacks, Indigenous, that those screaming ‘colonizer’ the loudest. (They are not subject to the ramifications of their own ideology.)

It’s time for people to recognize the con game being played on their guilt feelings.  The alleged evil is as fake as critical race theory and “postcolonial” theory are fake disciplines, with fake scholarship, that confer fake authority.

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