Evil, Thy Name Is Saskatchewan

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Normally when people think about the province of Saskatchewan, they picture pastoral prairieland filled with golden wheat, towering grain elevators, spectacular summertime lightning storms, windswept snowscapes, and that old joke about how the land is so flat you only have to stand on a milk-crate to see Halifax. One might also think of Regina’s beloved Canadian Football League team, the Saskatchewan Roughriders. People don’t usually talk about how awfully racist everyone is. Well, according to the University of Saskatchewan, located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, everyone in the greenest of provinces is terribly privileged and actively malign, especially white people.

Like most tertiary education institutions in the Western world, Leftist lunacy reigns supreme even here. Michael Plaxton, a law professor at the University of Saskatchewan had to attend a compulsory indoctrination training course officially named “Anti-Racism/Anti-Oppression and Unconscious Bias Faculty Development Session”. He called it “my forced march of self discovery”. Plaxton made a point of posting on X/Twitter throughout the training.

After a verbal exchange with the facilitator of the indoctrination course, Plaxton was asked to leave:

For the sake of clarity, I should say that I have no reason to think it had anything to do with my tweeting. It was actually more banal than that. We were arranged into groups and asked (for our first task) to list our hopes and fears for the meeting. I was a bit (ahem) unforthcoming with suggestions. After a few minutes, the facilitator came by. She asked me why I was there. I answered (ahem) honestly – that I was there because my union made it a condition of participating in future tenure and search meetings. She then tried to draw from my answer a “fear”. I didn’t really let her finish her thought. I made it clear from my tone that I was really not interested in engaging on her terms. She gamely drew out more productive answers from the others and went away. A few minutes later, she approached me and I was informed that, being unwilling to participate, I was free to leave. I said, no, no, I’m happy to stick it out; that I wasn’t going to disrupt anything. She proceeded then to make it clear that it would be better if I left. I sought clarification (twice) that I would nonetheless be deemed to have discharged my union requirements. She said yes each time. A few people were watching by this time, so I left. That’s it.

Most rational people who are not completely brainwashed by Leftist conditioning, know that these sorts of compulsory training sessions are nothing but dressed-up anti-white hatred. It is noteworthy, however, to recognize that fervent Leftist adherents are dead serious about it. They believe in the core doctrine of Leftist ideology, and they will wield power whenever and wherever they can. To his credit, Michael Plaxton, who is not a right-wing dissident by any means, stood up to the absurdity. It is my opinion that every individual who disagrees with this type of anti-white training should resist in a way that suits them, but resistance to this sort of coercion is a must. We can all do our part to push back against this pervasive phenomenon.

One Peter MacKinnon, who was employed by the University of Saskatchewan for 40 years including 13 as president, describes the training:

It is a propaganda module in which scholarly expertise and balance will not be found. It does not appear that the instructor has a university academic post and the program’s ideological hue is revealed in the two required readings, one by Idle No More co-founder Sheelah McLean whose theme is that the success of Saskatchewan’s white people is built on “150 years of racist, sexist and homophobic colonial practices.”

In Canada, Idle No More is a radical Amerindian organization that exists to get more concessions from governments at every level; they have a history of violence and are fond of blockading roads and rail lines.

The reading authored by Sheelah McLean entitled “’We Built a Life From Nothing’ White Settler Colonialism and the Myth of Meritocracy” is replete with anti-white vitriol and far-left imaginaries of a monolithic white racist society. Here is a sample of her writing from the piece’s conclusion:

The machinery of Canadian nationhood has produced racialized inequalities that appear to be natural and normal, particularly for those of us that benefit from it. Nation-building practices have advanced the social and economic power of white settlers, in particular those who were male and owned property, while dispossessing Indigenous people and subjugating groups marked as outsiders. These stories of white settler ingenuity need to be met with historical research on 150 years of racist, sexist and homophobic colonial practices.

The training featured a Wheel of Privilege and Power as well. Participants who located themselves closest to the centre of this wheel of misery were deemed to have the most privilege: “the closer you are to the centre, the more privilege you have”. Predictably, white, heterosexual, able-bodied males were the closest to the bullseye. Other universities in Canada have incorporated similar versions of this wheel in their own political re-education sessions. I’m reminded of the film Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome where individuals who reneged on a deal in Bartertown were compelled to spin a great wheel to determine their punishment. “Bust a deal, face the wheel!”. Sentences ranged from death, exile, and imprisonment to acquittal. But I digress.

We are all familiar with the rot in contemporary academia by now, but it is always good to reinforce the point. As Ricardo Duchesne has pointed out

Diversity through mass immigration has become a religion in the West, promoted at every level, from primary schools through to universities, by all establishment political parties, churches, the Pope, banks, corporations, every major media outlet. You can’t dissent from this orthodoxy.[1]

Training courses like this force university instructors to either conform or have their academic careers curtailed. The anti-white establishment is part of a machine that is geared towards the dispossession and displacement of white people, and that program is designed to perpetuate itself. If curricula like this are administered in pastoral Saskatchewan amongst some of the kindest people on the planet, they can happen anywhere. It is in our interests to resist this type of indoctrination in a non-violent, intelligent way, our future depends on it.

[1] Grégoire Canlorbe, “A Conversation with Ricardo Duchesne,” The Occidental Quarterly 19, no. 2 (Summer 2019): 23.