CHAOS and ASSAULT？ at University of Lethbridge during Professor Frances Widdowson visit
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Summary
Francis Whittowson is a tenured professor at the University of Lethbridge. She is a proponent of Indigenous issues and has been vocal in her defence of the Truth and Reconciliation Act. On February 4th, she was invited to speak to a group of students at Lethbridge University about her views on Indigenous issues. However, after the event, hundreds of people gathered outside to protest her presence.
Transcript
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wow wow so hi everybody welcome to the stream uh give me a thumbs up whoops
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Give me a thumbs up if everything sounds okay and looks okay.
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I haven't streamed in a minute, so hopefully we don't get any boomer tech issues.
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But, whoa, daddy, is there a lot to talk about?
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For those who are unaware, Francis Widowson is a tenured professor who got fired from Mount Royal University a few years ago now for making satirical tweets.
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And that's actually not what we're going to talk about today.
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Because since then, she, you know, based on her, you know, experience, she could be considered a expert in indigenous issues.
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If I'm not mistaken, she also was working in a governmental role at some point on and around indigenous issues.
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Anyway, she's someone who's very outspoken about the residential schools.
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OK, she's like, I don't think there's evidence of these unmarked graves.
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and she's trying to debate and talk to people about this um you know she has a nuanced take
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she doesn't say hey uh residential schools were all good she says i think this kind of claim of
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there being genocide and there being all these unmarked graves is uh i don't think it's i don't
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think it's substantiated and on this stream i just kind of wanted to go over some of the insanity
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of uh what happened at lethbridge university or university of lethbridge just the other day i was
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just going to kind of look I was just going to look look it up on my own accord but there's so
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much there's so much stuff so many different camera angles and takes that uh I wanted to just
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kind of just dive right in uh Lee Stewie says Francis is a badass so true um I'll talk about
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this later or maybe I'll talk about it now um where is like the you know right-wing freedom
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firefighter free speech like people who want to defend the honor of canadian history not being
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genocide where are the people like standing up for francis i feel like if the conservative party
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was a real conservative party they would be having her back i mean credit where it's due
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shout outs to 1bc for supporting francis and and her kind of crusade uh for the truth of canadian
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history hey guys it wasn't all genocide i'm pretty sure some of these christians were actually just
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uh you know christians who wanted to teach native kids how to read and write and to get uh
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you know to help their kids be away from their alcoholic parents not saying that's always the
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case but uh let that one slip out anyway francis is a badass more right-wing people need to support
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francis even though she doesn't hold right-wing views doesn't matter this is like the most this
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is like a very very important issue anyway let's get into reacting to some of these clips shall we
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everything sounds okay good um i uh we saw this one on the intro
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but see everyone has earplugs in it must have been so loud in there i cannot even imagine
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um absolute insanity and we will get into some details later but uh
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It sounds like the university sort of sicked people upon Frances.
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She like didn't even promote this event really.
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She didn't even like make a poster ahead of time saying,
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hey, I'm going to be at University of Lethbridge.
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She kind of just sent out a tweet like an hour or something before she went there.
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And then the University of Lethbridge sent out an email.
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I'm actually going to, hopefully I can find it.
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Come on, there was a guy who did a really good breakdown.
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It was deafeningly loud at the University of Lethbridge
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as hundreds of students protested controversial figure Francis Whittowson.
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Frances Whittowson was at the UofL on February 4th to engage in Spectrum Street Epistemology,
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a way of fostering dialogue on controversial topics.
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Shortly after her arrival, students swarmed around her, yelling expletives and banging drums.
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Carly Ironshirt called Whittowson a residential school denier,
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and since many of her own family members were forced to attend residential schools,
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claimed Whittowson is denying the traumas they endured.
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Widdowson, however, says the university has created students who can't discuss ideas and are complete totalitarians.
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She believes the UofL should be sanctioned for encouraging students to act in such a manner.
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Yeah, it's, uh, maybe let's go to Twitter and look at some of these, uh, let's go to Francis' Twitter here.
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this was really disturbing you know genocide apologist fuck off Francis they're not really
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mincing words here um where was the other one that was insane this so they're banging drums
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in Francis's ear and these like these evil people these evil people make signs on their phones that
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say hope your ears bleed you don't deserve earplugs so this is really interesting because
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it's kind of like addressing that um uh like that this is assault when you bang a drum in somebody's
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ear um and i'm pretty sure legally it can be considered assault and they're basically like
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yeah yeah we are assaulting you we hope your ears bleed you know um and uh i don't have the quotes
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in front of me right now but like you know part of the whole process of when society is decaying
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they start to dehumanize people that they don't like
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Like what a, what a, what a fervor they're all whipped up into this insane fervor.
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this is Francis getting carried out okay this is the one good this is the one I
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wanted to react to actually so this guy this guy does a summary from a student's
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perspective basically that's Francis Woodison being carried out by police
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officers at the University of Lethbridge today Francis Woodison is a residential
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school denier should come to debate the topic of residential she's also a
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tenured professor and expert on indigenous issues but let's not talk
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She's just a – Frances, she just fell out of the sky as this residential school denier.
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She started to deny residential schools, and that's all she does.
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She's been carried out by the RCMP at UBC and also arrested for trespassing at UVic in the last few months for doing similar events.
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To get a true idea of what happened today, I'm going to go back to the beginning.
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Around 12 p.m., students got an email from the university saying that a controversial person was going to be on campus.
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This was sent out to all employees, all students, all undergraduates, and I think all graduates as well.
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The University of Lethbridge has just become aware through a social media post
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that a controversial figure is planning to engage our campus community
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has recently created significant disruptions at other Canadian universities.
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Campus safety is implementing measures to ensure the safety of all involved.
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It's so creepy that there's this thing called campus safety.
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We needed to keep the others safe by allowing assault against you.
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The university expects all community members to engage respectfully and lawfully.
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I don't think there was much respect going on in those clips.
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But safety and well-being on campus remain our top priorities.
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The irony of this is, I mean, we'll try to find out more.
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Maybe there was other social media posts that got, like, proliferated through Antifa channels.
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But this is a pretty big e-blast coming from the University of Lethbridge.
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Like, if there's anybody who kind of helped incite this confrontation, it was probably this email.
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It was probably this massive e-blast basically saying that Voldemort is on campus, kids.
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Like, make sure you – do they have the location as well?
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So, there goes – like, bias is totally, you know, in terms of being nonpartisan or not biased, like, that's out the window.
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The views of this individual are upsetting and disrespectful to many members of the university community.
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Well, I guess that kind of, like, qualifies it a bit.
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at the same time universities are places where the thorough and evidence-based examination and
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critique of controversial ideas take place good our community should be aware that this individual's
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recent visits to other canadian universities have resulted in unpredictable and at times
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confrontational interactions i think that's redundant i don't think that's written very well
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during past interactions this person has recorded and shared interactions on social media
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to advance her particular narratives significant attention or inappropriate or unlawful conduct by
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members of our community may be used to amplify the narratives this individual individual seeks
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to promote we recognize that this event may be distressing for members of our community
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particularly indigenous students faculty and staff supports are available and we encourage
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anyone affected to reach out to available supports um i don't know if it was actually
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reported where she uh where she was let me look at the chat here for a second i think francis is
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in there shout outs to francis um yeah francis says they came after they received the email
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so the email definitely again helped kind of make this confrontation happen
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guys valdemort's on campus come on down with your noise machines and drums and and uh annoying signs
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all right let's keep playing this for 12 p.m a small group of students were
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you know drumming and chanting um surrounding francis when a student got particularly close
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to francis okay so it sounds like the actual location wasn't disclosed in the email but the
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francis says but the atrium was where my visit was in 2023 so for those who don't know there's
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actually a a big kind of kerfuffle that happened when francis visited in 2023 as well crazy the
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She's actually going live after this in about 45 minutes,
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Started yelling when one of Francis' supporters
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Reportedly, the student suffered a minor concussion.
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concussion um following this incident security guards formed and if i'm not mistaken i think
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that's uh francis's husband who's kind of like defending her so kind of understandable to be
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honest uh if your wife's getting assaulted you're going to want to try to protect her
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it's kind of just common sense but um a concussion they suffered a minor concussion from this
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supporters came up and pushed the student to the ground um reportedly the student suffered a minor
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concussion um following this incident security guards formed a circle around francis to guard
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her and her supporters um at the same time about six police officers yeah francis says it was he
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thought he thought i was going to be attacked she's definitely that person is definitely in
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her bubble right before this came up and pushed the student to the ground um reportedly the student
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suffered a minor concussion well yeah and then she gets really close to him i mean
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um following this incident security guards formed and look at the person pointing oh my god look
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oh my god you see oh my god you see that anyway a circle around francis to guard her and her
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supporters um at the same time about six police officers showed up and they were just observing
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and filming generally um around the audience oh my god this person's really selling it eh
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is this the person that got pushed over around the crowd um so the tactics are like so dishonest
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you know it's just it's so dishonest how they're like oh i got shoved i have a minor concussion
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oh my god i'm on the ground and then it's like i hope your ear bleed i hope your ears bleed
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i hope you get ear damage you know like it's so lopsided like any any small amount of pushback
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will be claimed to be the most horrible fascist violence and then when we do everything possible
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to assault and attack you that's just totally justified because we're morally righteous
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because the student had been sort of pushed to the ground and a little while after more people
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had gathered. There started being some more confrontations, I guess, between the security
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guards and the crowd. So the police actually stepped in and they formed the blockade around.
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I love Frances here. She's just like locked in. She's like, that's right. Keep going crazy. I'm
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going to keep recording. I wish there were more camera angles. We're going to try to look for that
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shortly, but there's something crazy at the end of this guy's video.
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And Francis, in the following hours, more and more students gathered.
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He just gives it away there, that he was one of the students protesting that, like, hates her.
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You know, one student spent almost $1,000 of his own, like, dining plan money
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the osu also did the same thing shortly after okay that last set like we have to replay that
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just because it's so insane um the crowd so first of all i want to i want to draw attention to like
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how he's like dude we were like saying fuck off francis and like saying fuck off racist and like
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it was like it was the most like epic thing like it's this is like the marvel superhero moment
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the blockade around francis in the following hours more and more students gathered there was
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like hundreds of people you know we were we were yelling like um a fuck off francis and fuck off
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racists oh my god that's so cool one go off queen almost a thousand dollars of his own like dining
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plan money to buy and hand out waters to people the usu also did the same thing shortly after
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there's also like earplugs being offered to protesters because they're just so loud um
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like this is like the super bowl for these people you know and and really the you'll see in a second
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here like the details don't really matter you know again francis has a nuanced take on residential
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schools she's not saying oh my god they were great and lovely and everything was great about them
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but she's like i don't think it was actually genocide i don't think all these priests were
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just like throwing kids in ovens i don't think there's any evidence for that um but these kids
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don't care because because they it's like they get the email they they see the kind of like
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oversimplified post on Instagram that says she's a fascist or she's a racist or she's a like,
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you know, insert slur. And then they're like, yeah, I can't wait to like condemn this n-word
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or whatever. Cause that's what it's like. We're going to the comments later, but it's like,
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anyway, maybe we'll go into it now. Is it, are they here? Um,
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maybe this is comments on a different one. Louder is not writer says the one thing.
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Lee Stewie says someone spent their dinner money.
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I spent $1,000 on water to help hydrate the protesters
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the older guy that had shoved the student and his wife were escorted out by police
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this left francis and anthony hall who is a former professor at the uofl it'd be about half an hour
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after the older couple was kicked out another fun fact i was talking to francis this morning on the
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phone another fun fact is um the other professor here dr anthony hall doesn't actually even agree
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with francis like dr anthony hall does think that there is a genocidal aspect to the residential
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schools so they didn't even agree but because dr anthony hall is principled and still believes
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in like free speech and like wants people to debate this topic he's on the receiving end of
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the abuse isn't that interesting like like even though this man disagrees with francis on some
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of these issues because he believes in like let's actually not scream at each other let's have a
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debate because he believes in like wanting to have a civil conversation that makes him also a
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fascist that makes them also all of these horrible things who deserves to be basically abused by the
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student body um additional police yeah francis says he argues that the residential schools were
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genocidal this is the person standing next to francis who's you know standing up for the you
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know academic freedom or just the right to like have a debate on campus officers arrive maybe like
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six seven of them um they go and talk to francis and hall as well as the other officers um and i
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believe the conversation that happened was that francis was being informed that if she continued
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to stay she would be trespassing so um at the time francis and hall were sitting down in the circle
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of police officers um and yeah so they told her this presumably and then a short while after she's
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been carried out by the police and apparently she got arrested for trespassing um yeah so after
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she's escorted out by police um anthony hall still sitting in the circle of officers on the floor
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and when the additional officers come back from escorting francis out they talk to the officers
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that are surrounding anthony hall and then they all of the officers proceed to go outside leaving
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hall just on the floor by himself at this point the crowd gets closer to anthony and he gets he
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starts gathering his things and getting up and the crowd kind of like try to push him towards the
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door but he like pushes further into u-haul um and sits down again puts on his shoes and when he
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stands up um a mass protester like physically pushes hall towards the door and the crowd also
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kind of ushers him out um and then as he's out the door dude that's such a weird like look at this
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crazy visual like look at like look how a couple students come in from like the left side of the
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screen and they're like fuck you just like spitting venom at him and it's like do they even know that
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this guy thinks the residential schools were genocidal and he just wants to debate it you know
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like obviously not these people are just whipped up into a frenzy it's it's actually quite terrifying
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towards the door and the crowd also kind of ushers him out um and then as he's out the door he
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apparently trips and falls on the concrete pushes further into u-haul um and sits down again puts
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on his shoes and when he stands up um a mass protester like and like this is kind of why i
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wanted to like just kind of emphasize this because like this problem is not going away
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like unfortunately these are like young people who are only getting older and will probably
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join the workforce or become part of society uh and this is how they act this is how this is where
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their mind is at um demonizing people who you know disagree with a certain narrative or even don't
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but just demonizing people who want to have a conversation about it it's it's quite disturbing
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physically pushes hall towards the door and the crowd also kind of ushers him out
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And then as he's out the door, he apparently trips and falls on the concrete.
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And at this point, about like half the crowd was still inside, about half of them had gone outside.
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So the crowd inside were all assuming that like, oh, it was all over now, because it's been about six hours since the protest started.
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Start celebrating, but we shortly realized that Anthony Hall's still actually just sitting outside, this time in another circle of officers.
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um so then like about half the other half go outside now and we're continuing to um you know
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until you know eventually the officers sort of escort anthony hall out um off campus
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uh there's a lot more stuff that happened um but that is sort of the most essential stuff
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Um, the events of today leave a few questions unanswered.
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Listen to what he, listen to the questions he presents here at the end.
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This is a student who was protesting against Francis.
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Um, like how is Francis allowed onto campus after being previously denied?
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Why is this person even allowed to show up here on, on a university campus?
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like the the fact that that's like an a simple question to roll off the tongue is like these
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people do have an authoritarian mindset where it's like if i disagree with you why should you
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even like be able to show up even around me like this is this is the mentality of these of these
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kids takes so long for police to intervene especially after a student had been assaulted
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and why did this university administration allow this to happen like they knew about it they sent
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the email to all the students well the university may not have known the details as far as i
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understand uh francis just made a post like 30 minutes before showing up um but it like how crazy
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is like this this entitled attitude why did the person who i don't i ideas i don't like why were
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they allowed to show up why didn't the police do something about it why didn't the campus shut
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everything down and like throw her in jail already like the mentality is insane right but there is
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hope right these are the people that that want to defund the police as well and who hate ice
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we hate ice we hate the police we hate law enforcement why the fuck didn't the law
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enforcement take away the person whose opinion i didn't like like the the more i try to like
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have sympathy for these people but the more the more i kind of just see it day after day it's like
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they are they're kind of like children like i don't know how else to say it and i'm not saying
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that to be like cruel or to be like you know oversimplify it but like how else do you explain
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it i don't know because today hundreds of students hundreds of young people stood together
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this was no like one club's doing it was just everyone helping out right and from the student
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he bought people water with his own money the one handing out earplugs the musicians who showed up
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later in the evening to the person who went out the drums everyone who made signs this student
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body stood against these hateful ideas today we stood united let's not forget that
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someone tagged rachel gilmore let's read some of the comments
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maybe lethbridge ain't so bad uh six seven got 10 likes is that just a stupid meme someone says
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It's crazy how we can't just debate to change people's minds.
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If you disagree with them, then debate them and win the debate.
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If you're right, then it shouldn't be so controversial.
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I mean, again, it's just a crazy emotional reaction
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and sort of lack of engaging with what's actually being said here.
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To deny such atrocities is disrespectful to our elders and survivors.
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again where are the bodies you know like oh my gosh um let's see i think there was other comments
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on these ones this is just another angle so that looks like professor hall getting confronted oh
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my gosh look at this person i'm sorry physiognomy check i'm sorry but that looks like a
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evolved version of vosh the streamer if you guys know who that is um and just like look how lit up
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and activated these people look she looks like this person looks so happy these people par for
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the course and it's just like i'm just trying to think from their perspective this is probably
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the most exciting thing like this is their marvel superhero moment you know and i'm almost kind of
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like jealous of like getting to like just show up to campus feel like you defeated like uh what's
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the name of a villain like getting to feel like you defeated Thanos or something um but in reality
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you know you just live in some sort of delusional reality unfortunately
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Yeah, Francis says in chat, how do we know that a genocide occurred?
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Here comes some shoving, a little bit, okay, okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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Look at the guy in the purple shirt here, this is his moment!
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That's his fucking moment, look at that, oh my gosh.
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He just stood up to hate and racism and he is a hero.
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Can we get a statue of the guy in the purple shirt
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Lex Luthor, yeah, yeah, they defeated Lex Luthor.
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it's it's it's very much like lord of the flies it's like you know we pushed them over we pushed
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them out of the building we won it's like oh not really you didn't win the debate you're just kind
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of like shouting at everybody wait is this an old one okay this is an old one so this was actually
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from 2023 same place similar scene uh but i want to focus on what happened just the other day here
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i think i might read the comments from this one that were crazy yeah here we go so this let's get
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into this this comment was she has freedom of speech the same way we have the right to protest
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it was a proud day to be a university of lethbridge student she wanted her debate
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and she got it we we all disagreed this has 500 likes
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that see and that's what's crazy to me like i made the comparison earlier but it's like
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go back in history when black people weren't allowed in certain places
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and then like whites would show up with like n-word go home n-word go home shouting the n-word at
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black people get the fuck out of here like that's not really a debate you know like just shouting
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slurs at somebody and like hating on them telling them to get the fuck out we don't want you here
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that's not really a debate unless you think that like the racists from the past who would yell the
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n-word at people who wanted them out of their restaurant unless you thought that was a debate
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i don't think that's really a debate i think that's just like yelling slurs at somebody
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because you hate them for in a way who they are you know in a way who they are or at least like
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i say who they are because it reminds me of uh covid when people were like just get the vaccine
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bro just get the vaccine bro why don't you just get the vaccine why can't you just be normal and
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get the vaccine and it's like there's something about me there's something about myself that does
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not want to get it there's something about myself that makes me believe that it's not like i just
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don't want to make that decision and instead of saying like you know and it be like it became
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like a group of people who had this like shared belief and they and like this group of people
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got dehumanized and like i'm just kind of like pointing that out because it's like it's not it's
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not a it's not an identifiable characteristic when you believe something but um for whatever
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reason it's like if you have a certain belief you get cast into the same group that um you know
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you can try to deprogram the person or like beat the belief out of them.
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Look at the freaking profile pic of this person.
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universities don't create students by the way how completely embarrassing
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if you're only willing to hear your own ideas and opinions how do you fully fully learn about
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an issue defeats the purpose of an education in my opinion wow what a what a crazy sane take for
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once she wanted to hear from us so she did she is another butter
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great for you students not giving space to disinformation like these these kids don't
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even understand the first thing about i don't know like being open-minded to different ideas
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like they're totally antithetical to it all right let's let's keep reacting to more content
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uh we're going to try to wrap this up in the next 30 minutes or so
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who was this man what happened residential school denier who was with francis widows and
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people who deny the severity of residential schools
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proud of the students that stood up against bigotry
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that history not that science all right let's keep going through these videos though it looks
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like there's quite a bit this is from two days ago residential school denialism really is violence
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and we need to start pushing back against it today if you have not heard in university lethbridge
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francis whitison was debating with students and arguing against the possibility of a genocide
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caused by the residential school system to which students came out on mass to protest against it
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i'm sorry but this narrative that people like tara armstrong dallas brody and francis
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widdison are pushing that the residential school system was beneficial for indigenous people
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is wrong the trc already concluded that it was a genocide and more so a cultural genocide children
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i i love like this is really the core of how these people operate the residential schools
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they have they have they put so instead of having faith in the bible or having faith in themselves
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or like faith in their own kind of like instincts they put so much faith in like certain authoritative
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bodies and like that's it it's the studies it's the studies it's consensus them was beneficial
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for indigenous people is wrong the trc already concluded that it was a genocide and more so a
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cultural genocide children died and it really infuriates me how no one in mainstream politics
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has really pushed back against the normalization of this idea from politicians academics and even
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just regular people this is insane to push back that's so great like no there's been no pushback
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they've wanted to push a law they wanted to push a lied law to even criminalize this point of view
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what do you mean they haven't been pushing back against it anybody like you named like the only
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three people in the entire country who are pushing back against it saying it's getting normalized
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that's so crazy really against this narrative i don't want to say normalizing canada like we need
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to start really reconciling with these communities rather than really pushing back the progress we
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we have made over the past 10 to 20 years residential school the irony of that at the
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end is so funny if any if anything pushing so hard against you know anybody who questions
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this narrative it makes it much worse it makes the sort of like conflict much worse it's actually
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bringing us back in time if anything it's it's that's totally against this narrative i don't
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want to see it normalized in canada like the last i don't want to see it normalized in canada again
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there it's very similar to i know this is kind of like a trite point at this point but it is
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similar to the sort of like um power hungry people from uh during the covid years i don't
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want this person on campus i don't want this normalized that makes me uncomfortable and it's
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like dude like fuck off other people have other opinions okay like it's it's it's so irritating
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um francis says cult cultural genocide is not genocide by the way fair point and it's i mean
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not that it needs to be said but it's just like these are actually very interesting topics to
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talk about and it would be actually really great content if we could have these confrontations
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and actually hash it out in a debate um and the reason they don't want to do that though is that
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like these people would be humiliated they would be they would be totally rinsed they would be
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total all they have is their emotional crutch to lean on their emotional this they're emotional
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that and uh it's too bad because um it would actually be a really good debate to be a really
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good conversation and that's something that i want to be pushing in this year is like more debate
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um supporting francis we're working on the final cut of the documentary by the way if you want to
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learn more about that then uh go to give some go.com slash save free speech i have a lot of
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work to catch up on when it comes to this there's still some q a's from the screenings that i need
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to get out there and get posted but uh also the final cut is being worked on and you should be
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hearing more about it this spring uh shortly but uh yeah francis is going to be starting her stream
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so saying people will be free is it called a genocide now so it's like it's and it's when it
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comes to fighting for free speech it's like these little these little details these slight of hands
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that people try to make to uh like what how did he even say at the beginning residential school
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denialism really is violence and we need to start pushing back it's violence saying these words say
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having a different opinion is violence it's those fucking shitty little slights of hands um if these
00:40:51.640
if people like this these emotional uh you know freaks have their way then they would they would
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make all sorts of speech violence it'd be such a horrible can you can you imagine living in a
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society if these people continue to gain power be horrible place to live horrible horrible society
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it's already getting worse we're already seeing how bad it is on university campuses
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and campuses really are like the beating heart of the indoctrination right so
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So anyway, let's keep getting into more of this.
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Can you, is Francis, if you're there, this is an interesting comment.
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It says, how was it a genocide when the indigenous population grew by a thousand percent during the so-called genocide?
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I don't know the population numbers of, you know, how that spanned out over the course of the residential schools.
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but that's a pretty interesting, uh, comment. All right, let's get into this next one. I think
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these people are so locked into this what's this guy doing he's called he's
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collecting my mats for me yeah so Francis has these mats for spectrum
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street epistemology that's a strongly agree strongly disagree agree disagree
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edgy d tv says having a different opinion on history is literally physical violence
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yeah maybe there could be a meme about that where like you you fill out a history test and you and
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you get something wrong on the history test and uh the test like punches the the professor in the
00:44:04.280
face who's like grading it that's just what happens when you get history wrong guys that's
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what happens when you when you give the wrong opinion of history in your history essay the
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essay punches the person who's reading it in the face gives them a bloody nose um
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and some of them were painted orange from the university of winnipeg man
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that's crazy um and you know i know a lot of people have said like oh why is francis doing
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this she knows it's dangerous you know why would francis kind of like incite all these people
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people need to see this people need to see the disturbing state of canadian university campuses
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like this is this really i don't want you know i don't want to sound hyperbolic but like this
00:45:00.420
does look like a scene out of like a zombie movie or something this looks like a scene out of like
00:45:05.780
history when it's like these kind of like human rights cases that are going on uh from like
00:45:10.800
whatever like the civil rights movement like it's it's really disturbing stuff because if you add it
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up you know tenured professor studied indigenous issues has an opinion on this contentious
00:45:24.340
indigenous issue and you have people who are like yeah make her go deaf i hope her ears bleed
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that's violence her opinions violence this isn't even an exaggeration like this is what's happening
00:45:37.060
people people like i think these confrontations are important because it's showing people
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the pitiful pitiful state of uh of our university campuses and that's a that's a sign of what the
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future will look like um and again francis is is doing the work where's everybody else supporting
00:45:57.300
her aside from 1bc and the individuals at 1bc it's like you you run out of people supporting
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her real quick uh and again like this is a this is the writing on the wall that's like very not
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looking good not looking good for the country um so of course once again shout outs to francis
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widowson for having more balls than the entire conservative party um am i muted i don't know i
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don't think so you guys can hear me right yeah danielle smith did she stand up for you i don't
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know has she it happened in alberta the gray state of alberta good question that i mean that's worth
00:46:37.060
a campaign that's worth a campaign and you know i don't want to like call out the uh the the alberta
00:46:44.660
separatists because i know they're they're focused on on what they got to do to sign all the all the
00:46:48.660
things, but it's like, if Alberta did separate, how does this play into all that? Like you have
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a whole swath of university students that, um, you know, hate free speech, basically,
00:46:58.960
you know, if you become independent, that, that, that, that, uh, problem doesn't get solved.
00:47:04.620
Um, an org needs to be started like dominion society that supports what Francis is saying
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to collectivize. That isn't a political party working on it, working on it. Stay tuned.
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Let's keep reacting to some of these videos, though.
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then go to giftsandgo.com slash savefreespeech.
00:47:26.160
There's a lot of content from this documentary I filmed
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Need to keep editing it and hiring editors to help edit it.
00:47:36.080
All right, let's watch this next video, though.
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Oh, it's hard to leave you when I kiss you everywhere
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And oh, it's hard to see you when I wish you were right here
00:48:30.540
So I guess the joke is that someone was an ally or helping.
00:48:37.680
so they must be in love together, and that's funny.
00:48:42.480
That's from two years ago, two years ago, two years ago.
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An appeal by anti-woke speaker Frances Whittowson against the University of Lethbridge has been dismissed.
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Whittowson was set to speak at the UofL in early 2023 and give a talk about how wokeism threatens academic freedom.
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The university ended up canceling the event, saying some of her ideas were harmful to Indigenous peoples, LGBTQ+, and other minorities.
00:49:13.520
They cited parts of the Occupational Health and Safety Act
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that state employers must look after the well-being of their employees
00:49:22.300
Whittowson believes that her rights to free speech and assembly were violated
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Oh, this guy. This guy talked about it, I think.
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oh this is two years ago shit sorry this is two years ago where is this guy
00:49:48.940
though what what is going on with this do I got to refresh this Lethbridge
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University fascist I feel like that's the banger keywords I'll put widows in
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all right you get the idea um man i want the one of the guys sitting in his car because i'm pretty
00:51:01.920
sure that was a... My name is Riley Walberger. I was born in Lethbridge, Alberta. I live on the
00:51:09.520
north side of Lethbridge. I am fourth, maybe fifth generation Albertan, and behind me is the next
00:51:18.240
generation. We have lived our lives for generations here in Alberta, and I'm making this video for one
00:51:25.820
very important reason i want to be exceptionally clear that i am a canadian first if alberta were
00:51:34.300
to separate from canada for whatever resettle back into canada thing okay i thought it was about
00:51:40.940
francis i don't want to get into that whole debate uh that whole can't worms but um all right let's
00:51:47.400
Let's see what else is cooking on the timeline here.
00:52:10.400
Drum out what is in a University of Lethbridge event.
00:52:17.400
Oh, this is an old one. Is this an old one again? Jeez. Guys, I don't want the 2023. I want the
00:52:36.020
new one. Oh, Francis, you've done this so many times. Jeez.
00:53:06.020
I mean, it is crazy that Frances barely promoted this event at all.
00:53:16.400
She made like one tweet, and then she showed up.
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And then this one email from the faculty is what drew all these people to be there.
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uh what's gonna be genocide i gotta get on it on like a hashtag
00:54:03.360
Wait they had a band there what what the they had a band there that's crazy
00:55:03.360
Oh, bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao, partigiano, portami via, che mi sento di morire.
00:55:18.140
Someone says, this is the kind of bullying I can get behind.
00:56:17.500
the joy on the drummer's face as they play is amazing it's disgusting that they were
00:56:24.380
even allowed on campus how dare canada preach that we are safe when we can't even keep this
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away i can only imagine the fear and outrage this protest has brought to families with
00:56:35.560
residential school trauma around the area please be safe that's insane that's insane dude
00:56:43.240
like it's traumatic that somebody even showed up to talk to somebody that's where we're at
00:56:49.720
that's where we're at it's traumatic that someone would even show up to uh hey i i kind of disagree
00:56:56.340
do you want to talk about it oh god make it stop this is traumatizing raw like the victim mentality
00:57:05.440
that victimhood drug is insane they tried to do the same presentation in british columbia a few
00:57:10.720
weeks ago and they were arrested unfortunately for us in alberta residential school denialism
00:57:14.820
is considered a freedom of expression rather than what it is hate speech oh my god brother
00:57:26.880
i don't want to go down this rabbit hole right now this looks really tempting but i don't want
00:57:40.160
to go after random people on Tik TOK. I don't know if that's the play right now. Uh, I should
00:57:44.420
be wrapping it up cause I think Francis is going to be going live soon. Uh, maybe I could, I could
00:57:49.500
talk about that real quickly. Um, let's see if there's any more to react to. Um, there's probably
00:58:00.560
is more. If you do find any, you guys should actually send a tweet. Um, maybe I'll make a
00:58:07.060
quick Twitter thread I'll just do this if anyone finds more clips and camera
00:58:26.940
angles of this event, please event on social media to talk, Instagram, please leave the
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There was, um, I, again, I was talking to Francis and like, I hope we can find a clip
00:58:55.600
of this but um you you could see the people the protesters kind of making signs um they were like
00:59:05.020
holding up signs and such and francis started doing the same thing and she made a sign that
00:59:10.760
said like a quote from 1984 which is like freedom is having the freedom to say two plus two equals
00:59:17.160
four and francis was telling me that she held up this sign and this like really like angered them
00:59:23.080
this really triggered them this made them like you know escalate their insanity to say like
00:59:28.220
literally holding up a sign that says two plus two equals four so if anybody can find that clip
00:59:33.280
I would love to see that clip in action but I think Francis is going to be going live shortly
00:59:40.980
I will try to leave the link to that or there's a pinned in the chat there's Francis's a channel
00:59:51.400
So I encourage you guys to go over and check her, check out her stream.
00:59:58.940
I got, I had the privilege to, this is, this is similar but different.
01:00:04.240
It's about Francis, but it's kind of on a different subject.
01:00:06.600
For those who don't know, Francis got basically fired.
01:00:09.340
Tenured, tenured university got fired for sending out like satirical tweets because she was getting attacked by like sort of an anti-racist Antifa account on Twitter.
01:00:18.820
And she responded, Francis responded with these kind of satirical tweets, kind of like making fun of it.
01:00:24.260
And then essentially a number of faculty members made complaints and this all snowballed into her like losing her job for two weeks and then like not being able to go back for a tenured professor, by the way, not able to go back to work.
01:00:38.500
And then I think last year they said, OK, that was inappropriate.
01:00:44.720
However, you're still not allowed to go back to work.
01:00:46.760
And then there was just the other day, there was this tribunal hearing between her union and like the lawyers that represent MRU, Mount Royal University and Mount Royal.
01:00:58.200
And like, you know, the lawyer for Mount Royal University was explaining this is why she can't come back.
01:01:04.800
I wish more people could see it because it was so insane.
01:01:08.020
But long story short, the lawyer saying that she can't come back to work was literally citing tweets from Francis or like articles from Francis who was saying like, hey, I feel like wokeism is taking over our universities.
01:01:31.260
I'm going to keep fighting for academic freedom.
01:01:33.260
the lawyer was literally taking these comments from Francis and saying this is why she can't
01:01:38.520
come back to work this is what's creating a toxic work environment this professor is
01:01:43.800
celebrating academic freedom she can't come back to work totally insane anyway she's going to be
01:01:50.060
talking about it more uh on her live stream right now if you want to go deeper into the weeds make
01:01:54.560
sure you check that out um I think this is the link right here I'm going to send it in chat I'm
01:02:01.120
probably going to go over there right now as well. Thanks so much for tuning in. Love you guys so
01:02:05.440
much. If you want to support what I'm doing again, go to giftsandgo.com slash save free speech, uh,
01:02:13.180
and donate. There's still a lot of work to be done in terms of the marketing and in terms of
01:02:19.580
promoting everything. Um, lots of interviews to get out there. So, and thank you so much to everyone
01:02:26.080
who supported so far hold on more is coming there might be another tour coming and screenings coming
01:02:32.000
who knows but uh more on that later and we will uh we will talk to you soon
01:02:49.320
tweeting out all the the details anyway that was unbelievable that