PugJesus @ PugJesus @kbin.social

Cripple. History Major. Vaguely left-wing.

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https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/former-principal-who-sued-tdsb-over-alleged-bullying-during-anti-racism-training-dies-by-suicide/article4b9f98a9-7394-5517-909b-c69eb581aec9.html

The conflict arose after Ojo-Thompson is alleged to have suggested that Canada was more racist than the U.S., in part because Canada has “never reckoned with its anti-Black history” in the way the U.S. has.

Bilkszto, who previously taught high school in Buffalo, N.Y., disagreed with the statement. He said it would be “an incredible disservice to our learners” to suggest the U.S. is a more just society than Canada.

Bilkszto’s lawsuit alleges Ojo-Thompson reacted “with vitriol.”

“We are here to talk about anti-Black racism, but you in your whiteness think that you can tell me what’s really going on for Black people?” she said, according to Bilkszto’s lawsuit.

Bilkszto claims he tried to de-escalate the situation, admitting there was anti-Black racism in Canada but argued that the evidence suggests “we are a far more just society” than the U.S.

At this point, according to Bilkszto’s lawsuit, another KOJO facilitator intervened, saying what Bilkszto was bringing up was not relevant.

The facilitator allegedly said if Bilkszto wanted to be “an apologist” for Canada or the U.S. the session was “not the forum for that.”

Another session was held a week later. At the beginning of the session, according to Bilkszto’s lawsuit, Ojo-Thompson referred to what happened the previous week and described it as a “real-life” example of resistance in support of white supremacy.

Bilkszto claims in his lawsuit that the statement, among others, implicitly referred to him as a racist and white supremacist.

The Star had begun reporting on the lawsuit prior to Bilkszto’s death.

In a July 7 statement, the KOJO Institute said it disputes many of the allegations in Bilkszto’s lawsuit against the TDSB, “including the descriptions of interactions with KOJO Institute staff which paint an inaccurate and incomplete picture” of what happened in the sessions.

They said it would be “inappropriate” to comment further since the matter was before the courts.

YMMV on whether it was whataboutism or not, but regardless, it was pretty clearly not malicious, and it's a shame that the distress over the incident led him to suicide considering his positive record in the schooling system.

Well, no modern anesthesia. If you were lucky, you'd get powdered opium dissolved in wine. Less lucky, and you'd get some small dose of nightshade dissolved in wine. Unpleasant, but at least you'd be unconscious, and (probably) wake up again, eventually.

Of course, if you were being operated on in emergency circumstances, or as some poor farmer in the middle of nowhere getting a visit from a city doctor, you might very well end up with nothing at all.

Left to right: British, American, Australian (British), Indian (British), German, French, Austro-Hungarian, Italian, Japanese.

Russian not pictured, oddly enough.

Obviously the overall issue of incompetence and pigheadedness and probable sadism remains, but I don't think state troopers have authority over local police.

Oh. It's me.

“Do not release the dog with his hands up,” a state trooper warns several times from a distance.

I love (/s) both that the local cops needed to be told that, and that in addition, the local cops still didn't fucking listen. The bar is on the floor and they still manage to limbo under it.

Isn't there already one? Or several?

Me af

I unironically love that children's drawings haven't changed in nearly 800 years.

I've always wondered if it's more practical than it seems, or if it's one of those things where the intimidation factor is more important.

I guess it's not illegal to have bad taste, but it is in bad taste to have bad taste.

There's a (great) game called Disco Elysium, in which you play a semi-amnesiac recovering alcoholic detective who is only partially attached to reality. The character pictured there is your partner, who constantly questions why you do things that may be mundane, like browsing fantasy novels in the bookstore, but are in no way helpful to the murder you're supposed to be solving.

Article here.

My memory was a bit off - Scythian artifacts were looted in a separate incident by Russian forces. Ukrainians accidentally dug up Greek or Roman amphorae, not Scythian works.

They actually dug up some Scythian artifacts while digging trenches in Ukraine, and had to move the planned trench section so the site can be properly excavated post-war. Let me see if I can find it.

2020!

He's doing his best, and so are we. Good work, skeleton!

I am quite socially adept.

I just hate using my skills.

Google reverse image turned up:

https://www.cbbcomic.com/comic/philosi-bear/

how extrovert find