From the National Post:
Rights complaint filed in B. C. over cancelled course.
VANCOUVER – Two men responsible for creating a new social justice course for a B. C. high school have filed a human-rights complaint against the Abbotsford school district for its refusal to offer the course this year.
Murray and Peter Corren filed the complaint with the B. C. Human Rights Tribunal, alleging that the decision not to offer Social Justice 12 in W. J. Mouat Secondary School amounts to discrimination against students — especially those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered.
In a statement released yesterday, the Correns say the district refused to offer the course, even though more than 90 students had signed up, because some parents had complained about content dealing with sexual orientation, gender identity, homophobia and heterosexism.
The Correns, one of the first gay couples in Canada to marry, almost single-handedly forced the topics of sexual orientation, gender identity and same-sex families into schools when they launched a B. C. Human Rights Tribunal complaint against the provincial government.
You may agree or not with the teaching of this course on ‘social justice’; but how could a school district’s decision not to teach it possibly be a violation of anyone’s human rights? No-one is advocating censoring the material in the course; there is no frenzied mob gathering to burn copies of it; it is even available on the Internet for perusal by incurable insomniacs who may be looking for an untried soporific.
It appears to me to be a pile of tendentious tripe, but that’s just me. Here is an excerpt:
Students should be able to identify and define a range of concepts and terms of social justice:
e.g., ableism, ageism, anthropocentrism, colonization, conservative, consumerism, cultural imperialism, democratization, dignity, discrimination, diversity, economic imperialism, economic liberalization, empowerment, equality, equity, extremism, fairness, feminism, fundamentalism, genocide, globalization, hate crime, hegemony, heterosexism, homophobia, human rights, humanism, humility, inclusion, marginalization, misogyny, oppression, peace, persecution, power, prejudice, privilege, racism, radical, sexism, speciesism, stereotyping, systemic, transformational leadership, truth, value, worth
These words alone convey a cornucopia of codswallop; read the whole thing to judge for yourself.
I agree there’s no human rights issue here. What’s more, the two men bringing the complaint have no standing to do so: They’re not students or parents of students, so they are not directly affected by the school board’s decision. They’re trying to force BC schools to teach their agenda. If they want to indoctrinate someone, let them raise their own kids.
Scott,
If they want to indoctrinate someone, let them raise their own kids.
And I’m sure they would: poor kids.
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Homosexuals, Native Indians, Negroes, Muslims, Leftist women and French Quebecers are all eternal victims by choice, for profit and advancement of their particular sicknesses. Canada is doomed. The rest of us are suckers.
John,
Canada is doomed
And I thought I was pessimistic 😉 (well, I am).
We will see who has more “human rights”.
If they win – then clearly the “rights” of any homosexual trump the rest of us “humans”.
Rob, that point has already been made by BC-HRT decisions galore. Gays DO have more rights than others. So do Muslims. When the Muzzies take over, of course, gays will have significantly LESS rights than the rest of us. Being tossed off a cliff has a way of abrogating one’s human rights. But gays have always been known to be promiscuous. Hardly surprising they think they are being clever now getting between the political bedsheets with Islam.
Canada has always been doomed, btw. I knew that from the moment we slid from “TWO SOLITUDES” to ‘SO MANY EFFING SOLITUDES YOU CAN’T COUNT THEM”.
Canada will cease to exist within two decades. Plan accordingly.