But What Do I Know

Submitted by marvellouslyclever.tumblr.com:
This is basically fodder: http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/article/1203312—kelly-cbc-alt-broadcast-of-cup-final-an-embarrassment?bn=1

My Commentary:
*sigh* CBC, why in the names of all things holly are you giving the conservatives a reason to axe your funding? Why like, just why?

We get it. You know your aiming at the market of men who like woman and hockey, but why do you think the fact that the attractiveness of the females you have hosting the show will somehow out way the fact they KNOW NOTHING ABOUT HOCKEY.

It’s an insult to both woman (both those who watch hockey and just in general) and men who watch hockey, to suggest that a show like this can be on a network that is a Canadian institution and succeed, assuming that the original goal is to succeed and not outrage people.

These woman must be sleeping with someone at CBC, because there is no way there was some kind of callout for woman who know nothing about hockey to host a show about hockey. If CBC wanted to have woman host a show about hockey, then that’s wonderful. It’s a good idea, but it becomes a bad idea when the woman hosting it KNOW NOTHING ABOUT HOCKEY.

Could CBC not find any attractive females to talk about hockey? If that’s the case I can provide them with a list of attractive females I know who know about hockey and would love to have a show where they talk about the great game.

From Bill 78 to Bill C-30, both federal and provincial governments seem to have their minds on controlling the basic charter right freedom of speech, but MPs in Ontario’s House are finally imposing that all schools must uphold one of the crucial characteristics of human decency; tolerance.

It’s been a long ride for both proponents and opponents of Ontario’s Bill 13. Hate has been spewed by some groups only to be countered with love by others. People who use the term ‘intersexed’ plug their ears and spit in the faces of the children in the LGBQ, trans* and gender queer community, while the Ontario GSA Coalition (along with a list of other organizations, the list is very long) continue to preach love, and even invite speakers from the Muslim, Christian and Jewish faith who back bill 13 to talk.

Bill 13, a bill which asks that all schools accept and support GSAs, has seen tons of opposition from religious homophobs and the Catholic school system.

This opposition has raised a question that many people have been asking about Ontario’s outdated underfunded school system for a long time; “why are tax dollars funding Catholic schools?”

Historically, all provinces funded two school systems based on the segregation of religion, but as the 21^st century dawned, all provinces (with the exception of one) changed that. Ontario is the last province to still have funding for the catholic school system. Why? Because Ontario is slow. Very, very slow.

The Catholic school system really has one solid argument and that’s that this bill stops their Catholic priests from preaching ignorant non-sense about how being something that isn’t straight is a lifestyle choice and not an orientation or a gender. [Insert distasteful joke about any Vatican priest-alterboy incident here]. Yes, freedom of religion is what all churches say when people ask them to have some form of human decency, but here in Ontario not only do we support this bullshit institution we fund it.

The school system in Ontario works in such a way that families will fork over thousands of dollars a year for specialized education. Weather that thousands of dollars is to ensure your kid extra college prep, teachers who are trained to deal with your child’s disability in such a way that they receive the education that someone in a public school would receive just with the assistance they need to process and absorb it or you want to send them to school like CHAT, which is a Jewish private school that teaches multiple languages and college prep.

The Catholic school system is one that, like the Jewish school system, barely even teaches the scripture of the religion but still upholds the traditions. The Catholic school board does receive funding to do this, while Jewish schools do not. This is once again, because the school system is out of date.

To put into perspective just how easy it is to defund and drop all support for a school, for precisely the reason of the teachings being intolerant and inconsistent with basic human decency, we can look to the East End Madrassah.

East End Madrassah is a school albeit never was funded by public tax dollars, operated out of TDSB public high school. The private school lost its permit to operate in the TDSB building when a curriculum that preached hate and fueled the kind of islamophobic that makes republicans win elections surfaced on the schools website. The curriculum portrayed anyone who didn’t believe in Allah “unclean” and taught boys to “be ready for jihad whenever it comes”

While turning the Catholic school system into a private school system isn’t as easy as disallowing a hateful group of private teachers to operate out of a public school, it certainly is worth beginning the process of separating the public school system from that a church that refuses to teach tolerance or even accept the premise that systematic bullying is what leads to playground taunts and suicidal thoughts.

The Catholic school system should feel free to use that whole separation of church and state argument to justify being intolerant bigots but when they get defunded they should prepare to go out gracefully. You can’t claim separation of church and state and then punch all tax payers in the stomach, demand their lunch money and call them homophobic slurs; that shouldn’t be how the system works. Unfortunately, that is how the system works and something’s got to change about it. Weather that change is that the Catholic school system allows a safe space for their GSAs or that they get defunded, something’s got to break and taking the route of demanding GSAs is certainly the beneficial option for the Catholic school system.

So to all of you people still using the word ‘intersexed’ and using your religion to justify your hateful mission to impose your lifestyle on every single person who crosses your path, stay classy. And to those of you who are trapped in the Catholic school system or religious households where homophobia is prevalent, hang in there, help is on the way. Premier Dalton McGuinty backs this and so do many others.