{"id":18483,"date":"2021-09-15T06:57:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T13:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=18483"},"modified":"2021-09-15T06:57:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T13:57:52","slug":"woke-book-burning-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/09\/15\/woke-book-burning-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Woke Book Burning In Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17119\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/indiana-jones-read-book-not-burn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/indiana-jones-read-book-not-burn.jpg 480w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/indiana-jones-read-book-not-burn-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Book burning used to be considered a sign of fascism and oppression, but recently it has become a necessary virtue signal for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/09\/28\/when-trying-to-burn-books-is-anti-racist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-racist<\/a>\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/11\/18\/berkeley-professor-supports-book-burning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wokeness<\/a>. So <em>of course<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/book-burning-at-ontario-francophone-schools-as-gesture-of-reconciliation-denounced\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canada<\/a> has to join in.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe \u2018flame purification\u2019 ceremony, first reported by Radio Canada, was held in 2019 by the Conseil scolaire catholique Providence, which oversees elementary and secondary schools in southwestern Ontario. Some 30 books, the national broadcaster reported, were burned for \u2018educational purposes\u2019 and then the ashes were used as fertilizer to plant a tree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018We bury the ashes of racism, discrimination and stereotypes in the hope that we will grow up in an inclusive country where all can live in prosperity and security,\u2019 says a video prepared for students about the book burning, Radio Canada reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn total, more than 4,700 books were removed from library shelves at 30 schools across the school board, and they have since been destroyed or are in the process of being recycled, Radio Canada reported.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_17350\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17350\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/nazi-book-burnings.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/nazi-book-burnings.jpg 600w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/nazi-book-burnings-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meanwhile\u2026 in Canada.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And what will replace the lost books and the history and knowledge they contain? \u201cIndigenous knowledge keeper[s]\u201d, of course!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOne of the supporters of the decision to remove and burn the books was Suzy Kies who is described as an \u2018Indigenous knowledge keeper.\u2019 She told Radio Canada, \u2018People panic about burning books, but we\u2019re talking about millions of books that have negative images of indigenous people, that perpetuate stereotypes, that are really damaging and dangerous.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The death of Western Civilization seems to be continuing unabated.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Woke Book Burning In Canada\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Book burning used to be considered a sign of fascism and oppression, but recently it has become a necessary virtue signal for 'anti-racist' wokeness.  So of course Canada has to join in.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/nazi-book-burnings.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Book burning used to be considered a sign of fascism and oppression, but recently it has become a necessary virtue signal for \u201canti-racist\u201d wokeness. So of course Canada has to join in. \u201cThe \u2018flame purification\u2019 ceremony, first reported by Radio &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/09\/15\/woke-book-burning-in-canada\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[65,24,68],"class_list":["post-18483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-doom","tag-leviathan","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18484,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18483\/revisions\/18484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}