D-E-I must D-I-E
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Summary
A school in Ontario played a Palestinian protest song as its Remembrance Day music. The principal defended it, saying it was meant to bring "diversity and inclusion" to the day that is usually only about a white guy who has done something related to the military.
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Hey there, it's John. Welcome to the channel, just down in the basement, checking out what's
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going on in the world. And I came across a video on YouTube about a story that has been
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percolating for the last couple of days. It's November 13th, and two days ago, it was Remembrance
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Day here in Canada. And for those people who don't have a day like this, it's a day where
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we honor the people who gave their lives in service of their country. They call it Veterans
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Day in the United States, I believe. And the video came across here on YouTube is from
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Michelle Rempel-Garner. She is an MP for the Conservative Party. I believe her writing,
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Calgary Nose Hill, so just north of where I live here in Calgary. And her video is called
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Disgusting, Woke Ontario School Principal Ruins Remembrance Day. So she goes on at length to
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talk about this and how she's addressing this horrific thing that happened at a school in
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Ontario. So let me just read the National Post headline on this, and then I'll read something
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quickly from the newsletter that I get from Michelle Rempel-Garner every week. Ontario School played
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Palestinian protest song in Arabic as its Remembrance Day music. They chose an Arabic song
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about peace for Gaza as the only song to play for a Remembrance Day service, said a disappointed
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parent. Now over to the newsletter that Michelle Rempel-Garner writes every week. By the way,
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she could be a great journalist after she quits her job as a politician in the future. But from that
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newsletter, Principal Aaron Hobbs defended this election during one of those meetings,
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they had meetings regarding this, saying it was chosen to bring diversity and inclusion
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to Remembrance Day that is usually only about, quote, a white guy who has done something related
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to the military, unquote. Again, I'm going to say that one more time, quote, a white guy who has done
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something related to the military, unquote. Now, as someone who has celebrated Remembrance Day ceremonies
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since I was old enough to stand, and somebody who's gone to Remembrance Day ceremonies in the cities
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I've lived in, including here in Calgary, this is something that I consider incredibly vile and
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disrespectful. And I think the parents who were upset about this, as I mentioned in that National
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Post headline and sub-headline there, their parents need to pull their kids out of the school.
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They should pull them out of school, and they won't return until Mr. Hobbs is removed from his
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position. He should not have a job as a principal at any school. And parents need to understand that
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a lot of teachers think this way as well. I think we learned a lot during COVID when kids were learning
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from home, you know, on Zoom calls and whatnot. We found out what teachers were actually teaching
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their kids today as we fall further and further behind in reading, writing, and arithmetic. They're
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learning this activist and warped mentality and ideology in school. So parents, take your kids out of
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that school until this man loses his job. Which brings me to the diversity and inclusion part of
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what Mr. Hobbs said this was about when he played that song on Remembrance Day. I'm going to take you
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to the U.S. election now. Donald Trump is now the President of the United States, and I've been watching
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him nominate people for his cabinet. And I think DEI, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, is going to die in the
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United States with Donald Trump. I'm hoping it happens here in Canada within the next year when
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we have an election here. And Trudeau has finally shown the door, and I hope it hits him in his ass
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when he's leaving. And we elect Pierre Polyev as our new Prime Minister, and Michelle Rumpel-Garner
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will no doubt be a cabinet member. I have no doubt about that. But I think with Donald Trump, DEI is
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going to die. You know, it's ingrained in everything in the United States government now because of Joe Biden
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and Kamala Harris and the Democrats over there, even in their military, if we're talking about
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Remembrance Day and remember people who died for their country. I mean, they had drag queens doing
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recruitment videos for the military, and they're falling way behind when it comes to recruitment.
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You know, when you hire somebody based on an immutable characteristic, for instance, the color of
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their skin, it means you're not hiring somebody for the same reason. And that's racism.
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See, they've got it all wrong, and I'm talking about the left here. Diversity, equity, and inclusion
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excludes people based on an immutable characteristic. It's racism, it's bigotry, and it needs to stop.
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I think about Martin Luther King all the time when I hear DEI. Martin Luther King stood up, 1963,
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I believe it was in Washington, D.C., in front of the great emancipator Abraham Lincoln, right,
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looking over that pool of water. 300,000, 400,000 people showed up, and his speech was,
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I have a dream. And one of his dreams was, this is what he said, I want to live in a world where my
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children are judged not by the color of their skin, but the content of their character.
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You know, conservatives think you get hired on merit. We don't care what color your skin is. If you are,
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you know, looking for a job and you're good at it, you will get hired. It doesn't matter what color
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you are. It's the left that are constantly making color or those immutable characteristics the most
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important thing. I often wonder how long it's going to be before the left marches on Martin Luther
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King's memorial and wants to tear that one down, because they've lost their way.