Will Halton be bamboozled? Woke bullying vs. Catholicism

Editors;

RE: Halton Catholic school board faces accusations of anti-Black racism

The Catholic Church is justly famous for its intellectual rigor.  The Christian faith as we know it today is the product of the theology of Jerusalem passing through the philosophy of Greece.  Thomas Aquinas, who set the standard for Scholasticism, was a Dominican monk who taught at the Sorbonne in Paris in the 13^th century.  Then, there are the Jesuits.  Will the Halton Catholic Board demonstrate anything like the intellectual rigor traditional of Catholic institutions in the face of boilerplate progressive accusations and standard bullying practices?  Past performance is not favorable.

The most obvious failing in the accusations is over-generalization.  One “staff member” uses the N-word – context unknown – and this proves anti-Black racism present at the Board.  Failure to act at the pace set by the accuser is an indication of the depth of the problem.

A second weakness is a failure to put the complaints in a Catholic context.  Catholicism is all about the individual, but the accusations all involve standard progressivist groups.

Another give-away is the usual progressivist jargon: “evidence-based data,” (which the Halton Board does not keep) “macroaggression,” “traumatizing,” and so forth.  So are the alleged solutions, “police-free, professional-development, policy review, data collection, inclusive curriculum, response mechanisms, equity,” and other time-wasting, expensive, and harassing measures.  You’d never know they were talking about Catholic teachers and a Catholic school system.

Progressives pride themselves on the sensitivity to intersectionality and the needs of victim groups, but they exhibit no sensitivity to the audience they’re addressing in this instance, namely practicing Catholics.  They’re being treated the same as confused, fallen-away liberal protestants.

Perhaps the problem lies in the massive chip on the shoulder of the accuser.

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