Three CSDM teachers have taken off religious symbols
Three teachers at the CSDM have taken off religious symbols to work.
Update: The education minister says this action proves Bill 21 is a good law.
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Jack 11:34 on 2019-09-18 Permalink
I think ultimately this is what Bill 21 is about, submission. It makes people who are weak minded strong. It creates a context where I tell you what you can wear and what you have to take off. Which if I am living in a basement apartment in Joliette, reading my Journal and getting ready for my shift at Burger King….it makes me feel good.
Tim S. 12:35 on 2019-09-18 Permalink
I’m sort of with you Jack, but I’m not sure making up straw man fantasies about the “other side” is the way out of this.
Jack 12:43 on 2019-09-18 Permalink
Tim you’re right it’s not productive. Im pissed how easy this became law. With the acquiescence of all our institutions.
qatzelok 18:31 on 2019-09-18 Permalink
@ Jack: “basement apartment in Joliette, reading my Journal and getting ready for my shift at Burger King”
This is a nasty and sort of prejucided characterisation of the working class.
The left used to stand for income equality, and equal opportunity. But now, alas, it is mostly about shallow identity politics that don’t equalize income or opportunity at all. Which is why it has lost so much support in the real world.
Chris 23:21 on 2019-09-18 Permalink
Jack, there’s really no info to go on here, and it’s only about 3 people. People wear religious symbols for innumerable reasons, from just liking the look, to just honouring ancestral culture, to being mildly religious, to being militantly religious, to being forced by another. We have no idea what category these 3 people were in. Though I suppose we can conclude they decided their job is more important than their symbol. It’s lamentable they were forced to pick between them, but it was still their decision.
Also, I had a good laugh at your first sentence. Did you know the word “Islam” means submission? 🙂
qatzelok, yes, left identity politics is indeed a scourge. You might enjoy the book Political Tribes by Chua.
Jack 05:18 on 2019-09-19 Permalink
Your all correct I should not of wrote that, my bad. However “ identity politics” as an exclusively left construct is b.s. . Identify politics is what Bill 21 is , a non existent issue that creates political traction in a majority community, aimed directly at a community without any political or economic power. This law is Quebec’s “Jim Crow” I thought we were done with that.
Chris 09:07 on 2019-09-19 Permalink
Jack, reread. No one said identity politics is *exclusively* a left issue. I was even careful to prepend the adjective “left” to “identity politics”. Right-wing identity politics exist too of course. Give Chua’s book a read, it’s short. There’s a good argument that the left identity politics of recent decades is precisely *why* we have the current right-wing backlash.