As someone who TA'd one of the mandatory courses in the Teacher Ed. program at Brock, you can't hire what doesn't exist. Gatekeeping structures that prevent access to BIPOC students becoming teachers must also be addressed. I have spoken with BIPOC students who would never consider teaching as a career because of the abuse they faced in the school boards as students. I wonder if that's part of the "plan"?

This is a beautiful example of how to push back against colonialist oppressions. "Divide and conquer" is the chief strategy. Quite often, a person alone cannot overcome a bully; when a group of friends, or their older sibling accompanies them, it's almost comical how quickly the bully caves. Bullies rely on isolation to enforce their terror. We must band together and resist.

This is an unsettling statement to read. If Ontario's education system represents the best of Canada, then what do the other Provincial systems look like?

I was privileged to moderate the student and teacher panels at Future Black Female's "Breaking the Cycle" Conference this spring. It was very revelatory in the way that Administrators hold the decision-making power about what EDI practices/policies do/do not get enacted in individual schools. It also made me think about the Gaudry and Lorenz (2018) article, where "Inclusion" seems to be best concession that institutions are willing to make at this time. Perhaps moving towards Reconciliation Inclusion, and even Decolonization Inclusion would mean installing the types of bodies that would bring policy/systemic change, and that's the "fear"?

Which is why emerging researchers need to be careful not to create unnecessary tension.

If the focus group has ended, why are you still listening? Of course, you need permission to "record" after the agreed upon session has been completed. If the story wasn't juicy, would you have had the same motivations? Such dilemmas are part of being to eager to extract data from your subjects, especially data that would prove compelling/sensational.

This gave me a laugh. For now, at least, the LLMs are attempting to disagree with information contrary to the texts they have been fed, and the responses that they generate from logic, without emotion. So this leads me back to my question: what is the end goal for humanity, based on what the owners envision as "utopia"?

So, this is deliberate then. I wonder. As I reflect on the "selection process" for the Trans Atlantic slave trade, it was the children and the youth that were targeted then. One doesn't need to observe for too long that history is repeating itself here. In the face of systematic dismantling of EDI in the USA, is what were are looking at mass grooming/indoctrination of the young? The first time I saw this ad, my skin crawled, and my heart sank: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DC1KMLjIfhO/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Doesn't this depend on who exactly is defining "fairness" and "justice" to begin with? Is it truly possible to be fair to all? If you respond to this comment, I am intrigued to learn how you personally define "justice". Perhaps our definitions may help uncover insights as to how hegemony has shaped us? Let's carry out this courageous experiment, and see where it takes us. So as to not introduce bias or undue influence at the outset, I will reserve my definition until the end of your responses :-)

This is one of the first times that I have witnessed naming of folks who have historically been labelled as "minority" as the Global Majority. I find the leveraging of inversion tactics by dominator culture to enforce their hegemony fascinating.