If Black and brown people are telling you something is racist and your response is you haven’t seen anything racist, you should pause and reflect on why you’re unable to detect racism and why racism is so normalized to you (in addition to denying our lived experiences)
The Ford government is spending money on an obscene amount of ads like this trying to paint @CUPEOntario as villains. It feels like they’re focused on PR and have no interest in actually reaching a deal to keep students in class. #onpoli#onted#IStandWithCUPE
It makes no sense to say education workers are too important to allow them to strike, but not valuable enough to pay a living wage. The hypocrisy is a policy choice.
All 55 000 CUPE education workers have my unwavering support. Thank you for choosing courage over fear and for rising against the bullying tactics of Doug Ford and his government. So many of us are with you.
kids all over the country have been staging walkouts to protest anti-lgbtq legislation in schools. kids don’t care that their classmates are queer. the “save the children!” bullshit has never been about children. it’s about bigoted parents
“Now is not the time to talk about colonialism.”
The colonized never stopped talking about colonialism. You’re upset because this conversation is invalidating your age of heroes and you’re being forced to listen.