Another Week in the War on Wokeism

From rent-seeking over Unmarked Graves to Perverts Sky-diving with Porn Stars

Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash

By James Pew

It has been a week since I last wrote to readers of The Turn.  There is a bunch of writing and counter-woke pushback to tell you all about. So, let’s not waste any time.

On Dec 19th, the Dorchester Review published a piece co-written by Nina Green, Brian Giesbrecht, and myself, called The Unmarked Graves Boondoggle. Below, I will include some extras from the article that didn’t make the final cut. But before I do, let me address a few other important updates.

The big announcement is that two days ago Indian Residential School researcher, Nina Green, launched an incredible new website - Indian Residential School Records - designed as a comprehensive research tool for those investigating the IRS system. I wrote about Nina’s awesome website yesterday.

On Dec 16th I wrote a short article for Woke Watch Canada called The Counter-Woke Resistance: How You Can Support Woke Watch Canada - this piece gives a brief description of the counter-woke resistance work that myself and other Woke Watch Canada supporters are involved in. It also serves as a call-to-action to readers by asking them to consider increasing their support by sharing  Woke Watch Canada articles on social media, becoming a paid subscriber, and/or contributing research or writing. Not everyone knows that Woke Watch Canada publishes the experiences regular Canadians have with wokeism. In order to expose the rampant entrenchment of woke ideology into the lives of Canadians, we must tell our stories (even if we have to do so anonymously). Woke Watch Canada is a place where Canadians negatively affected by wokeism are heard.

One such example was published the day before (Dec. 15th). In that piece, School Stonewalls Parent Concerned with Gender Ideology, a mother concerned with the content of a gender lesson her son’s grade 4 class was taught, shares the letter she wrote to the school with Woke Watch Canada.  The gender lesson greatly upset her son, but the school has thus far not provided any of the materials, or much of the details, this parent has requested in an effort to learn more about what upset her son so much. What is clear, and we have seen this before, is that the lesson imparted the anti-science, ideological position that little girls and boys are sometimes born in the wrong body, and so have the option to change their sex.

On Dec. 17th I published to Woke Watch Canada an essay called Why I Speak Out , written by a former Indian Residential School student about his positive experiences in the IRS system. A story totally at odds with today’s prevailing narrative of cultural genocide.

On Dec. 19th I published a piece I wrote for Woke Watch Canada on the Oakville shop teacher who wears gigantic prosthetic breasts with protruding nipples to his classroom. This is clearly the case of an autogynephilic pervert - and believe it or not, the story gets much weirder than him simply wearing an outlandish and offensive costume that caricatures the female form - but the school board has defended his right to this disgusting and overtly sexualized display for the enjoyment of all shop students. How inclusive!

To give readers a sense of just how bizarre this story is, in the piece I wrote, I didn’t even mention that the Z-Cup Bandit (my nickname for the pervert) was photographed sky-diving wearing his full Z-Cup costume, with a male porn star. You read that right. I wrote an article about this incredibly bizarre situation, and didn’t feel it necessary, in order to paint a picture for the reader, to include the bit about the protagonist wearing enormous fake breasts while sky-diving with a porn star. The other bit, the one about him attending a little girls dance recital was creepy enough for me.

Also on December 19th I published to Woke Watch Canada an article on decolonization by former teacher Jim McMurty. For readers who may not be aware, Jim is the teacher who was canceled for telling his students that most former Indian residential school students died from disease (which is the truth). Read Barbara Kay’s piece in the National Post for more details on Jim’s case.

Extra’s for The Unmarked Graves Boondoggle

Read The Unmarked Graves Boondoggle on the Dorchester Review.

Kimberley Murray, the Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites, associated with Indian Residential Schools, has an ingenious plan - to effectively place herself in charge of a growing empire that will do nothing more than search for grave sites that have not been properly maintained in cemeteries that have, in some cases, been long-forgotten. Regardless of the possibility that some of these sites may have no connection to Indian Residential Schools, in rare cases may be hundreds of years old (most Indigenous people did not bury their dead - this is a Christian tradition), Murray will obtain generous and permanent funding from the federal government for this questionable project by guilting the government, and through it the tax-paying public into falsely believing that something sinister or nefarious took place at Indian Residential Schools.

The photo above appeared in our Dorchester Review piece. It is of the century-old Kamloops Band cemetery, which has hundreds of unmarked graves, some with old wooden and iron crosses lacking names, others with no crosses at all. Another similar scene is the Canon Stockon Cemetary (Anglican) on the Siksika (Blackfoot) Reserve, which has 80 to 90 unmarked graves.

 Across Canada, many thousands of Indigenous people, including children, lie in burial sites that have not been properly attended, and consequently have become lost. Professional activists like Kimberly Murray clearly believe that this is not the case and insinuate foul-play by constantly inferring that these unmarked gravesites belong to the children who the Truth and Reconciliation Commission claim went missing from the IRS system. The TRC never said this in the report. It is only now that this claim has been made and sustained. The TRC heard about one possible murder, but never had a call-to-action to dig up school yards to find the remains of murdered children. In fact, there has been no substantiation of any stories involving missing or murdered former IRS students.

Those unfortunate indigenous children who passed away while attending a residential school would have died in the same ways as non-indigenous children who attended public school - that is, mostly from disease, but some from accidents. They would have been buried in the same way as non-indigenous children - that is, Christian burials, with their deaths documented and signed by the proper authorities and registered correctly. And most would have been buried by their parents, with a priest or minister on their home reserves. A small few would have been given a Christian burial at a cemetery in the immediate area of the residential school. Some were buried in a local cemetery without their parents because they could not be found in time. The parents may have been out on the Pacific fishing or on their trap-lines.

The Brandon IRS provides a clear example of where this would happen. The school opened in 1895 specifically to accommodate indigenous children from remote settlements along Lake Winnipeg, and north of it. If a child died while attending the school, to return the body would have been literally impossible when canoe and snowshoe were the only method of getting to those remote settlements. In the case of the Catholic schools there would normally have been an existing mission cemetery. This is true of most schools. There was a church cemetery often close to the school which, in many cases, had the chapel used as a church on Sundays, which in some cases would be used for former students. And in the case of some of the industrial schools, such as Brandon, new cemeteries were created.

Contained in some of the unmarked gravesites found near former IRSs would also be those from the early days when most children did not attend school. Often the non-Indigenous employees would be buried in the cemeteries if they died. As old ways changed, more indigenous children were enrolled in school, but most of them attended day schools. However, a small percentage of children attended residential schools, which suggested the likelihood that they were orphans or child welfare cases - since we know that in the later years (after 1948 when the joint Commission released its report on integrating Indian children with White children) most spots in residential schools were reserved for those unlucky children.

It is clear that Kimberley Murray and other activists are relying on Canadians to continue to believe the false story that she and her National Center for Truth and Reconciliation colleagues have been telling, namely that these children were taken from their homes against their families will and were forced into the IRS system where thousands disappeared without a trace, never to be seen again. The implication is that these former IRS students met their death as a result of deliberate acts or negligence by IRS officials, and were secretly or carelessly buried, with deaths improperly recorded, or not recorded at all. And worst of all, parents were never notified. Nonsense, there is no reason to believe any of this.

But much of Murray’s activist narrative is accepted without question, despite the fact that there are no police records or media reports throughout the history of the IRS system of any family member searching for a child who went missing from a residential school. A fact that is sometimes countered with the almost laughable argument that it is because indigenous parents were suspicious of the RCMP, so they neglected to inform anyone outside their community that their child was missing. Thousands supposedly went missing and are assumed buried in unmarked graves, but not one of those thousands (Murray Sinclair has put the number as high as 25,000) who are said to have vanished in the presumably murderous IRS system, had one mother, father, sibling, grandparent, or cousin, who went to the media or the police for assistance in finding them. 25,000 kids went missing, but all those families were too frightened of the white man to say anything about it.

 None of this is even remotely plausible

What is plausible, is that the indigenous grievance industry (aka the Aboriginal Industry), relies on a vast infrastructure of rent-seeking. My article for the Frontier Center - Indigenous Suffering is the Point: The Expanding Processes of the Aboriginal Industry | Frontier Centre For Public Policy (fcpp.org) offers commentary and analysis on this corrupt behaviour. Also on this topic, I’d like to recommend this great paper by professor Frances Widdowson, the  political economy of neo-tribal rentierism (Frances’ theoretical framework which details how aboriginal industry rent-seeking operates). 

I’ll leave it at that for today. Thank you for your time!

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