Hello, I’m Daisy Cousens.
Welcome to This Week in Social Justice.
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This week’s biggest and baddest social justice fails include why Prince
Harry and Meghan Markle received an award for procreating, well,
not procreating, actually, the social justice obsessed TikTok teacher
who is teaching fourth graders to view the world in racialized terms,
and depending on how long I feel like talking about the first two
topics, we may even get time for a bonus topic.
So!
Let’s get started.
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Everybody’s favourite least favourite royals, Harry the Prodigal Prince
and Meghan, Princess of Hollywood, have been turning heads for all
the wrong reasons for the last three years.
However, since about March this year, when they gave their infamous
Oprah interview, they have really upped the volume.
Whether it’s slagging off the royal family, doing podcasts about how
hard it is to be rich and famous, signing lucrative deals with Apple
and Spotify for podcasts and TV series while simultaneously claiming
to want privacy and a normal life for their children, Meghan and
Harry have raised more than a few eyebrows over the last six
months.
However, as we know, they do have a large contingent of
loyal supporters, God help those poor people, who relentlessly
shower them with praise and adoration.
Evidently if you tout yourself as compassionate loudly and often
enough, people forget you’ve not shown the slightest bit of
compassion towards your immediate family members.
Anyway, these Meghan and Harry supporters, plus the
corporations who stand to make big bucks off the Sussex brand,
have rewarded Meghan and Harry for their bad behaviour.
And while one of these rewards really sticks out for its near-parodical
nature, there are two others that deserve a mention as well.
The first honourable mention is the fact Lifetime have
produced a movie based on their wayward ways, entitled Harry
and Meghan, Escaping the Palace.
This is actually the third movie produced by Lifetime about the
Sussexes; Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance was released in 2018
and Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal came out in 2019.
However, the trailer for this third instalment is…summin
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Here’s the trailer
Just sooo cringe.
But fans of the couple will love it, and Lifetime will
likely make a tidy sum upon its release.
The second reward for their bad behaviour they have received is in the
form of the glowing response to the recent message they posted
on their charity website Archewell, entitled, ‘What is compassion?’
Our mission at Archewell is to drive systemic, cultural change — one
act of compassion at a time.
We believe that compassion is at the core of all culture and connection in this
world.
It shows up in all of our interactions with people and enriches
our lives and the lives of those around us.
To us, compassion means more than the dictionary definition.
It means listening with open ears to the suffering
and celebrations of communities and people beyond ourselves.
It means taking the time to understand their perspectives, experiences
and needs based on what they say, rather than assuming what they
need.
It means uplifting diverse voices and giving a platform
to people to share their stories.
It means taking that newfound understanding and empathy
and channeling it into action for people who need it the most.
Each time someone conducts an act of compassion — whether it’s
mentoring a young woman or holding space for someone having a
difficult day — our world becomes a better place.
Compassion is at the core of everything we do.
We hope you’ll join us in building a better world, one act of
compassion at a time.
Okay, so aside from being unbelievably cringy, this is totally
hypocritical.
Both Meghan and Harry have been accused by several
former staffers and courtiers of, you guessed it, bullying.
In fact, it’s alleged that not only did Meghan publicly
humiliate her staff in meetings by screaming at them, she drove two
aides out of her service in less than a year, and caused symptoms
of post traumatic stress disorder in another.
These former staffers even had a name for their collective; the
Sussex Survivors Club.
While Meghan and Harry have denied the allegations, the so-called dossier of distress
seems to be pretty comprehensive.
I’m sure the truth will out at some point.
But if these allegations are even partially accurate, that,
plus the complete lack of compassion they have shown the royal family
in terms of their regular public degradation of them, make it
pretty ironic that they are telling everyone to be more compassionate,
and asserting that compassion is at the core of everything they
do.
Seriously.
But the reward that really takes the cake comes quite literally in the
form of an award.
As we all know, Meghan and Harry are bigly into
climate change activism.
They have no qualms about letting the general public know what they think on the
subject of climate change or how people should live their lives
in order to reduce emissions, and they are even happier to do
it while flying around in private jets, which leave a much larger carbon
footprint than flying commercial.
Anyway, this particular award was related to their climate change
activism, but not in the way you’d expect.
The charity Population Matters, which is an organisation that basically
advocates for population shrinkage, or at least to achieve
a sustainable human population, as they put it, launched what
will I’m guessing be an annual series of awards in honour of World
Population Day, on July 11 th .
There are nine awards in total, which are handed out for things like
human rights activism, stirring journalism, great acts of charity, etc,
most of which are somehow connected to awareness of excessive
population growth in order to combat climate change.
The award Meghan and Harry won is called the Special
Award, and they received it for, believe it or not…only
having two children
I kid you not, they have been given an award for procreating twice.
Don’t believe me?
Here’s the award descriptor
“In choosing and publicly declaring their intention to limit their
family to two, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are helping to ensure
a better future for their children, and providing a role model for
other families.
When the Duke first mentioned their intention to do
so in his Vogue interview with Population Matters patron Jane
Goodall in 2019, he spoke of his love for nature and sense that our
natural environment is borrowed, and said we all "should be able to
leave something better behind for the next generation".
We commend the Duke and Duchess for taking this
enlightened decision, and for affirming that a smaller family is
also a happy family.”
Okay, I don’t really know what to say about this, other than wow,
that’s awkward.
Particularly since the other award winners were
people like, say NATSIRAISHE MARITSA, who is a 17-year-old
taekwondo enthusiast who is fighting child marriage in her small
Zimbabwean village.
She teaches underage girls taekwondo lessons to build their confidence and hosts discussions
to warn her community of the harms of child marriage and
discourage girls from getting married early.
Massive, giant social justice fail to Meghan and Harry, as well as
Population Matters, right here.
There has been a lot of talk lately about leftist schoolteachers
propagandizing their students in the ways of the woke, most notably
with critical race theory.
It seeps into the classroom via activist teachers who truly, truly seem believe they
are fighting a new wave of actual early twentieth century German nationalists,
if you catch my drift.
The really disturbing things is that I’m not just talking about high
school students copping this stuff from their teachers.
I’m talking about primary school children, as they say
in my country, which I believe is elementary school elsewhere in
the world.
One example of these seemingly radicalised wokie teachers
has recently revealed herself on TiKTok, which came to my attention
thanks to the good people at the Libs of TikTok Twitter account.
This teacher seems to treat TikTok like a kind of video diary, or forum
for her to get tips on how to make her classroom as racialized as
possible, via videos of her describing how she teaches young children
to see the whole world through the prism of race, which, until only a
few years ago, would have been considered racist.
Like this little gem
Like…that just has everything in it, doesn’t it?
Every single buzzword and concept they use.
Cultural appropriation, “starting the conversation”, the kids
are getting very good at racialized conversations…I mean when the
heck?
It’s slang for goodness’ sake!
Who cares where it’s from?!
This is so damaging to young kids, I cannot imagine how anyone
could think that teaching kids to get good at racialized conversations
and teaching them that race should be a defining factor in how they
perceive and interact with people, is somehow a positive thing for
their development
as human beings.
But there’s more
Has
this teacher considered that aside from the fact she should be
teaching kids in an academic sense rather than imbibing them with
political ideology, thus rendering what she’s doing entirely
inappropriate, there could actually be a risk in making fourth graders
role play racist scenarios?
That is, couldn’t it be possible that by making kids role play racism, they may actually
like the racism, or at least have fun in a performance sense, which
would likely cause them to, you know, keep doing it in real life?
Kids are very malleable, remember.
Honestly, when I see things like this, I often wonder whether actual white
supremacists have infiltrated the woke movement under the guise
of being allies.
Certainly, I would have thought that teaching kids how to embody
white supremacy carries with it a reasonable risk of them starting to
actually embody white supremacy.
Food for thought.
So, parents, if you’ve ever had any doubt that this sort of stuff goes
on in the classrooms of your children, this is most definitely proof
that it can and does happen.
Even with kids as young as fourth grade.
Enormous social justice fail to this activist teacher, and all the activist
teachers like her, right here.
Unfortunately, I’ve talked so long about thew first two topics we’ve
run out of time for a bonus topic.
But tune in next time!
You might get lucky.