Government must end racial discrimination in U of C hiring now
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Summary
The University of Calgary wants to hire 45 new professors over the next three years, but they must all be members of what the university calls equity-deserving groups. It sounds like something that would be going on in some super-woke campus near Martha's Vineyard, but it's in Canada, in Calgary. Welcome to Canada's world of unequal opportunity.
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By now, it should be out there that the University of Calgary has implemented a hiring policy
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based not on merit, but on racial discrimination.
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U of C wants to hire 45 new professors over the next three years.
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Whatever else they bring to the job, they must all be members of what the university calls
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A business teaching opportunity open only to qualified women in the faculty of nursing.
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They want a director of indigenous initiatives who must be, guess what, a qualified indigenous scholar
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But of course, neither should Hispanics or people of South Asian or Chinese heritage.
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It sounds like something that would be going on in some super-woke campus near Martha's Vineyard.
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Welcome to Canada's world of unequal opportunity.
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For heaven's sake, people of all races come to this country looking to get away from this kind of rubbish.
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Canada is seen all over the world as a city on a hill.
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A place where people tell each other, it doesn't matter where you're from, it only matters where you're going.
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And if you really want to be all you can be, come to Alberta, where nothing stops you living your dream.
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Except, maybe, the dullards at what used to be Alberta's best university.
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The personal one is that too many people aren't too brave.
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The left-wing proposition pushed by radicals within and without the government of Canada
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is that unless the ethnic makeup of any particular profession reflects the country's overall ethnic composition,
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Therefore, to fight racism, you need to go out and find people to restore the balance.
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However, there are all sorts of reasons why people will choose one profession and avoid another.
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If you come from countries where the police are oppressive,
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you may not see it as an honor to serve and protect.
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Women can drive trucks if they want to in Canada.
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Anybody who's old enough to be on the University of Calvary board or to be in senior administration there knows that.
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They were raised in a culture that had already rejected racial discrimination in hiring
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and instead, as a young person, would have immediately and with deep conviction
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argued that if there was a job open, it should go to the best man or woman, regardless of skin color.
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So they know that what they're doing is rubbish.
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And they would also have known, in those days, Martin Luther King had a dream and they shared it.
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Just fear of being cancelled for not having the right opinions.
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Because that's what happens in academia these days if you have a mind of your own.
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Remember, none of this is designed to help specific people who have been unfairly treated.
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This is about divvying up benefit, power, privilege between groups of people.
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And it's not about creating that famous level playing field upon which all compete with the biggest rewards going to the best.
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So, a shortage of kahunis among the majority of the U of C Board of Governors is the first thing.
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The second reason this is happening, the government reason, is that recent federal research grant programs mandate diversity in research grant applications.
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That is, if you want money from Ottawa, and that's where almost all the big research grants come from,
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then you have to adopt and enforce federal diversity policies.
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I've spoken before on these shows about how the federal liberals use taxpayer funds to mold public opinion.
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They give money to people who will say what they want them to say and cut off people they don't like.
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If the U of C or any other Alberta university publicly refuses to use such diversity,
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reverse discrimination policies that Ottawa may cut off the money to their faculty members.
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But that doesn't mean we have to like it or let it go on.
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When people will call you racist for objecting to race-based hiring, which they will,
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If the government of Alberta is going to go to war with Ottawa,
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But first, let's give the U of C board a spine injection.
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And if we must, pass out some research grants of our own among their faculty.
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