Richard Bilkszto
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Fighting back using only the weapons your enemy allows you to use will always fail. This is why we should beware of any so-called allies who insist that we should stick with such dull, worn-out weapons. Either they want us to lose, or they are too clueless to realize how useless these weapons really are.
This occurred to me while reading a Quillette article by Jonathan Kay about the late Canadian school principal Richard Bilkszto. A black Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) trainer from the KOJO Institute named Kike Ojo-Thompson gave a lecture in April 2021 to top Toronto school administrators, intending to shame them and Canada for their supposed racism and white supremacy. Instead of rolling over and accepting the abuse as he and his colleagues were expected to, veteran educator Bilkszto spoke up.
Bilkszto had had experience teaching in the American inner cities and felt he understood where this DEI shill was going wrong. He directly contradicted her, stating that while racism does exist and work still needs to be done to fight it, Canada and its monarchist tradition is not as bad as she had claimed. The historical record is on his side, of course. Slavery was outlawed in Canada many years before the United States Civil War, and Canada was well-known as a destination for the Underground Railroad. Just the fact that the Canadian government is allowing someone like Ojo-Thompson to lecture its educators about racism speaks volumes for its good intentions.
This was not good enough for Ojo-Thompson and her colleagues at KOJO. In response to Bilkszto’s impertinence, they drew out the long knives — and note their overt anti-white racism:
Ojo-Thompson is described to have reacted with vitriol: ‘We are here to talk about anti-Black [sic] racism, but you in your whiteness think that you can tell me what’s really going on for Black [sic] people?’ Bilkszto replied that racism is very real, and that there’s plenty of room for improvement — but that the facts still show Canada is a fairer place. Another KOJO training facilitator jumped in, telling Bilkszto that “if you want to be an apologist for the U.S. or Canada, this is really not the forum for that.” Ojo-Thompson concluded the exchange by telling the class that “your job in this work as white people is to believe” — not to question — claims of racism.
So whites must simply accept all accusations of racism, huh? Does that mean that blacks need to cooperate when whites accuse them of racism, too? Or is this a one-way street?
After this, Ojo-Thompson and her colleagues smeared Bilkszto as a “white supremacist” and did everything they could to destroy his reputation. Predictably, not one of his colleagues or bosses stood by him. Some even piled on, pillorying him for his “white male privilege.” To his credit, Bilkszto fought back:
For his part, Bilkszto responded by suing the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) for harassment. He also sought a TDSB investigation of Ojo-Thompson’s actions, which the school board refused to conduct. But Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) took the incident more seriously, determining that Bilkszto was owed seven weeks of lost pay due to the mental stress he’d endured.
The WSIB judgment, later obtained by the National Post, concluded that Ojo-Thompson’s behaviour “was abusive, egregious and vexatious, and rises to the level of workplace harassment and bullying,” and that she’d intended to “cause reputational damage and to ‘make an example’” of Bilkszto.
TDSB’s Executive Superintendent Sheryl Robinson Petrazzini even tweeted thanks to KOJO for “modelling the discomfort school administrators may need to experience in order to disrupt ABR [anti-Black [sic] racism].” Bilkszto’s attorney put an immediate stop to that, however, by forcing her to take down the tweet after it had been up for months.
Despite this victory, the stress and turmoil of his battle against woke city hall led the 60-year-old Bilkszto to commit suicide this past June. His family claims that the false accusations of racism are what ultimately did him in.
Quillette’s takeaway from this story — beyond its undeniable tragedy – is, of course, the injustice of it all. Kay depicts Bilkszto as a “political progressive who’d devoted more than two decades of his life to the TDSB.” He leads us to believe — most likely accurately — that Bilkszto himself was a brave and honest non-racist who naïvely thought he could demonstrate to Ojo-Thompson where her interpretation of history had gone wrong. This mistake cost him his life, despite his so-called “white male privilege.” Meanwhile, the highly-paid Ojo-Thompson, Petrazzini, and other Canadian social justice educators continue to move from triumph to triumph, peddling their destructive Left-wing ideology like Johnny Appleseed planting poisoned apples all throughout the Great not-so-White North. And as for Jonathan Kay, aside from being a writer and editor for Quillette he’s also an “advisor to The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism,” according to his own byline. So this rather anodyne takeaway shouldn’t surprise anyone.
You can buy Spencer J. Quinn’s young adult novel The No College Club here.
The problem, however, is that it’s dead wrong. Kike Ojo-Thompson, Sheryl Robinson Petrazzini, and the rest of them were perfectly justified in what they did. Where Kay paints the Bilkszto affair as a moral struggle between bad-guy racists and good-guy non-racists, in reality we have the evolutionarily fit rooting out and destroying the evolutionarily unfit– and quaint notions of Truth, Justice, and the Canadian Way have absolutely nothing to do with it. In effect, the racists in this drama understood what was really happening far better than the non-racists: namely, that the name of the game is covert demographic warfare. Whenever disparate races inhabit the same geographic space and enjoy the same political rights, racial tensions will inevitably result. This is perfectly natural. Different races and tribes will compete with one another for power, and the point is to win by any means, not tell the truth and come in second.
Of course Ojo-Thompson and the rest of them behaved like scoundrels. They don’t have truth on their side, and they represent a racial group with a low average IQ, poor impulse control, and a history that’s low on accomplishment and overflowing with atrocity. How else are they going to win aside from playing the Race of Spades every chance they get? Does it even matter that they keep a number of those trump cards up their sleeves? If they played fairly and told the truth about race, then blacks as a discrete demographic force would have less political influence, they would certainly receive fewer freebies and privileges, and their racial identity would be shaken. This is not a recipe for winning. We therefore cannot expect them to go that route, and no amount of clever writing by Jonathan Kay is going to change that.
The Race of Spades is the weapon our enemy chooses to use. It is also the weapon our enemy prohibits us — that is, white people — from using. Of course they do, because it is the only weapon that could allow whites to ultimately win. When white people act in their own racial interests and overcome the taboo of speaking frankly about other races (as other races do of us), then we will win.
Quillette’s editors either don’t understand this or don’t want to — and sadly, neither did Richard Bilkszto.
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33 comments
I’m finding it hard to muster much sympathy for this guy. Suicide is always a sad thing but this guy devoted his life to the Ontario school system of youth brainwashing.
The fact that some black harpy did him in kind of reminds me of people who get attacked by their own pit-bulls. We all gotta go sometime, but to be devoured by your own pets has a ring of humorous poetic justice to it.
Wow. Just wow. I’m triggered by the name Kike Ojo-Thompson. That’s the worst anti-Semitic word in the English language, proudly borne by this supposed expert in tolerance. So problematic! I just can’t even…! And those who called out Richard Bilkszto for “white male privilege,” why, that’s assuming gender! How dare they? I bet they didn’t even have the common courtesy of sending flowers to his family after driving him to suicide. Hosers.
I would like to attend one of these lectures, just for fun. “Hey Kike! Mind if I call you by your first name?”
That’s the worst anti-Semitic word in the English language,
The name of my peoples is very homophobic if read in English.
Bulgaria by any chance? I’ve heard that some of the practices alleged by the Bogomils in that part of the world led to the term “buggery”. Though I thought you might be from somewhere further east than that, maybe even someplace where everyone gets around on flying carpets.
I remember there was a time when I would enthusiastically proclaim to not be a racist if someone was losing an argument and resorted to name calling in an effort to shut me up. Now, I give them a “I know, right?(giggle) Thanks for noticing.” That is the only appropriate response anymore. Still, it’s terrible to think that this man, who had the balls to not take a beating lying down, would give two shits what some quarter-wit affirmative action hire thinks about him to the point that it would drive him to suicide.
>has one bad meeting one time
>kills himself
THIS is the guy who calls you a snowflake on social media. Lol. Lmao, even.
This is a terrible tragedy. Richard Bilkszto must have been under great pressure, all of it unnecessary. He was 100% right and the DEI trainers from the KOJO Institution were 100% wrong. (I bet KOJO is 100% funded by Jews.)
Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a blood libel against the White race. The great mistake made by many Whites is to accept the premises & narratives of CRT. It’s all lies and nonsense, invented by Jews. We should teach them Critical Jew Theory, instead. Teach the truth.
Never try to debate rationally with anti-White “trainers”, who get paid to lecture us on our nonexistent guilt. Laugh at them instead, and then walk out. Laugh & leave is the best policy. These “trainers” are arrogant parasites, vastly overpaid to do nothing useful. They don’t do reason and they have no interest in truth. Report Kike Ojo-Thompson to the Jewish Defamation League (ADL) for the overt anti-Semitism of her forename.
“We should teach Critical Jew Theory instead.”
Indeed.
The point of this interlude in the Cold Race War is that being right is irrelevant.
Having power. on the other hand, is not.
See my comment below.
Being right is always relevant … to whites. Having power is the only thing of relevance to (most) nonwhites.
Having power will see you through times of being wrong better than being right will see you through times without power.
“When white people act in their own racial interests and overcome the taboo of speaking frankly about other races (as other races do of us), then we will win.”
I often imagine myself in one of these indoctrination beatdowns that these highly paid anti-White scum use to cow submissive Whites into guilt-ridden acceptance of the narrative. Would I walk out? Sacrafice my job as I berate and verbally demolish the toxic Lib-Left drone? Go on full verbal assault with facts…like the black on white crime stats?
Excellent article, summary, and comments. You cannot reason or rationalize with our enemies. I own my race realism, and I have no reason to care for, indulge in, or even try to explain black dysfunction. Cut to the core of the matter – the racial envy that blacks feel. I would ask Kike-Kojo…..why are you here? Why immigrate to a White country? Why? Just…..live among your people/ Prosper among your own people. You don’t need us. We don’t need you.
Excellent article.
Even though this man should have known better, given the culture we live in, I still feel for him. I really do. He’s yet another European White male spit upon, and by inferiors no less. The pain of that humiliation!
People from the older age often do not understand the mental grit and toughness you need to function honestly in the modern world, where whites approach minority status in many sectors while in some influential circles they are despised and actively subverted. Growing up on bob Dylan/John legend “kumbayah”, this principal probably expected a clear legal victory and if not praise, then at least carry-on-as -usual from his colleagues.
Kike Ojo woke him up to reality soon enough.
Truly a tragedy, yet one imagines that even in death the poor man could be chided for ‘weaponising white fragility’.
There is no point engaging in a game of destruction when you are going to accept the rules set by the enemy.
It’s like the illegal immigrants that just power boat over the Channel and enter England illegally. Once here the debate starts about what can we do about them and how do we stop them and should they be here. We then fall into the trap of engaging in the illegal activity on their terms as a secondary issue.
Primary issue – they are criminals. Round them up and dump them back on a beach in northern France.
The same rules and principles should apply when dealing with race baiters like Kike (who looks like she belongs in the same group of ‘female’ blacks like Big Mikey Obama) and don’t let them dictate terms or most significantly – drive someone to suicide.
Thanks Spencer. Great essay.
“When white people act in their own racial interests and overcome the taboo of speaking frankly about other races (as other races do of us), then we will win.”
That’s the only answer. And we’re so brainwashed not to, that black people had to do it for us; Kanye, Dave Chapelle, Kyrie Irving.
West, Chappelle and Irving are, at best, irrelevancies. Thinking they matter is just Negro Worship.
Hi Hamburger. Hope all is well with you. Don’t know what’s going on over at TOO with replies. I think that maybe Kevin changed the rules.
I disagree with you though. They are far from irrelevancies. Anyone who spreads the message of the problem of Jewish supremacy is extremely relevant and much needed. Even if it comes out a little rough around the edges.
Not a ton of sympathy here. Another white liberal who thoughts his liberal bona fides would save him from the howling mob. The left always cannibalizes itself.
He was actually wounded and suicidal because meanies called him a racist? How liberal can you get?
I’ve read dozens of Quinn’s articles, and I rarely disagree with him. But I do about something here, something profound. Quinn is correct about the inevitability of demographic warfare, at least wrt nonwhites (whites haven’t practiced such warfare since WW2, if not earlier – and even then, we were kind of weak in doing so compared to the ruthlessness of other races). And it’s true that whites for over a century have proven themselves to be the most profoundly evolutionarily unfit race the Earth has seen, which is why we’re headed, I fear ineluctably, towards racial extinction (though not in the perhaps two decades left in my lifetime).
But Quinn makes three errors. First, he seems to imply that evolution has a moral component to it; second, that contribution to evolutionary success is the only or ultimate standard of conduct; and third, that ethics either is meaningless in itself, or at least irrelevant to the demographic struggle for power. None of these claims (or others implied in the post) is true.
Evolution has nothing to do with morality. One cannot derive an “ought” from an “is”. Contribution to reproductive fitness is not an ethical standard (although it should be a consideration in assessing the morality of practical actions). Ethics is, however, objective (there is right and wrong), even if there are many quandaries whose morally optimum solutions can be difficult to determine. The nonwhites in this story were objectively unethical, even if their behavior pragmatically increased their racial power. Finally, ascertaining the ethically correct position in any conflict between whites and nonwhites is highly important to winning that battle for whites. It is our supreme glory that we are the most ethical race – both the most virtuous, and the one most concerned with questions of right versus wrong. Even if ethics is ultimately meaningless in the face of the uncaring cosmos, that doesn’t mean ethical right and wrong doesn’t exist. But even if we further hold that indeed it does, when seeking to influence whites, we should at least appear a) to acknowledge the existence of objective ethics, and b) to be on the ethical side.
The right and wrong of racial conflict rarely troubles nonwhites. But it greatly troubles whites. If we are to win our invariably morally correct interracial battles, we must always provide overt moral justifications for our positions that are persuasive to whites. White nationalist ethics is meant for whites, not nonwhites (though the minority of nonwhites genuinely concerned with ethics can also be a target audience for our moral reasoning).
This is my take, too. Spencer always writes so well, but I got to the part where he wrote the words “perfectly justified” and nearly threw up. No. Nope. And screw that. If the only way we can win is by being scummy and gross then fuck it. What world do we end up with after that? If there is no honor left I want no part of it anyway.
I will argue that they won’t win because they act like this. It is unsustainable behavior.
You’ve embraced a fantasy version of the world.
You’re worried about the sustainability of using a power that you don’t have and never will (because of your moral qualms).
The enemies of Whites have been going from one ‘unsustainable’ success to another for almost two centuries.
I think ‘sustainable success’ is largely irrelevant.
Once you have power, options open up that you cannot even imagine when you’re powerless.
If you cannot set aside your moral qualms in the interests of saving the White race, then it’s your moral qualms that are the problem not the pursuit of power at all costs in the interests of the White race.
Allow me to clarify, Mr. Burger. I have ZERO qualms handling things with extreme prejudice. My beef is with being a lying, cheating piece of crap. The folks who will act that way will always act that way, regardless of skin color or anything else. I will not associate with that type, ever.
Neither should any of us.
As long as the person isn’t lying to Whites or cheating Whites, it’s not a question of ‘morality’ in my view, it’s a question of tactics. Does cheating and lying to non-White creates more trouble for Whites than the value derived from the cheating, then it’s bad. If more value is derived, then it’s good.
Identity is the only morality worth having.
Any other moral system is just a ‘gateway’ to ‘racial equality’.
I can tell your right now, the more we think this way, the harder will be for non-Whites to manipulate us into doing damage to ourselves and our cause.
In my view, far more damage has been done to the White case by the ‘olive branch’ of universal morality than virtually any other ideological construct.
I am courteous and pleasant to all people of all races because it is expedient to do so and it was how I was raised.
But I am obligated to be courteous and pleasant to my fellow White people because they are people like me.
The ‘moral dimension’ of our racial struggle is simply a hold-over from a judeo-christian culture that is everywhere the enemy of Whites.
Here’s what I see is going to happen: Every White that thinks that you need to be ‘morally right’ in order to defend the race will go extinct and those of us who realize that identity is morality will survive. Our feelings about it don’t matter. It’s just survival of the most fit for the environment in which Whites find themselves.
Interesting discussion. By ‘perfectly justified’ I mean we should expect non whites to behave this way (ie unethically), and they should behave this way if they want to win. Racial struggles ultimately don’t have rules and are not subject to ethics. A critical mass of whites don’t see it this way, which is why we are so rapidly losing ground. Ethics are crucial for our struggles, of course, but only when we put the welfare of our families and our race before others. It is highly ethical to wish to reverse anti white demographic trends, and if that means treating non whites as shabbily as they treat us, cool.
I tend to agree with this position. We are in survival mode now.
As someone here (C-C) once wrote in a comment, “good men are going to have to do things that were unthinkable just ten years ago.”
Perceived as unthinkable, I would say.
Spencer, there is a massive divide between unethical, amoral behavior and defending what is important in the most extreme way. I am a huge proponent of the latter, and I will have no truck with the former.
So, the “knock out” game is okay for little old black ladies? Ten whites on. One black is okay? No, it isn’t. They are animals and I never want to be an animal. It’s not just unethical, it’s subhuman and you need to understand that matters.
Good point. Whites should not behave like savages, but with honor and dignity as much as possible. But we can still do this and vigorously protect our interests. We should just never expect such scruples from most non whites.
Here’s another way to look at it. Of course it’s morally right to defend your people. Since group survival is a biological instinct, that makes it a natural right. Someone trying to get us to question this is playing a psyops game hoping to make us doubt ourselves. No other race must justify their own existence. Thus, the proper answer to anyone trying to reframe things that way is “Go to hell.” Hopefully that’s philosophical enough 🙂
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