{"id":9102,"date":"2019-02-18T10:13:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T09:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9102"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:35:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T09:35:47","slug":"pucked-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9102\/","title":{"rendered":"Pucked Over"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Steve in Calgary<\/a> in the comments, this story<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Last month, a video uploaded to Snapchat showed a boy from the Fort McMurray Midget \u201cA\u201d Junior Oil Barons banging a hockey stick against the lid of a garbage can like a drum. As music from the Indigenous electronic group A Tribe Called Red plays, two other players can be seen dancing while the rest of the team shouts and laughs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As I’m fond of saying, religion has not so much died in the west as been replaced by a weird sort of superficial earth-worship. Part of this entails slavish deference to anyone and anything remotely considered indigenous or native, presumably in the belief their ancestors were humble stewards of nature rather than savages of scarcely imaginable cruelty. As such, these children have committed heresy:<\/p>\n

The social media backlash that followed saw commenters accusing the boys of mocking Indigenous culture. Many comments included hopes the boys would die in a traffic accident, specifically mentioning the Humboldt Broncos\u2019 team bus crash.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unlike traditional religions, this newfangled version offers no path to redemption. It’s simply death to all heretics, period.<\/p>\n

As it turned out, the boys involved were Indigenous, with at least one player a member of the Fort McKay M\u00e9tis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As if that matters. We’ve seen elsewhere<\/a>\u00a0that being a member of a protected class doesn’t count for much if you deviate from the narrative set by middle class political campaigners. SJWs might despise white men but they reserve a special hatred for minorities who wander off the, erm, reservation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could not guarantee the safety of our players, the families and the teams that we were going to play against because of the threats that were made against the team,\u201d said Shane Kearney, a parent of one of the players on the team.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Threatening to cause physical harm to children for being insufficiently woke is becoming a thing in the west. These are societies which pat themselves on the back for being all liberal and progressive in contrast to those nasty Russians and Chinese.<\/p>\n

Following the release of the video, the [Fort McMurray Minor Hockey] association released a statement saying the behaviour was \u201cwrong and will not be tolerated.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are sick to know how many people this hurts and offends and for that we sincerely apologize on their behalf,\u201d the association\u2019s statement read.<\/p>\n

Two days later, a statement from lawyer Dwayne Roth, who is also the CEO of the McKay M\u00e9tis Group, said the teens were Indigenous and called the dance was intended to be motivational.<\/p>\n

The apology was later pulled from the association\u2019s website and social media accounts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Half the problem here is those who end up running modern organisations – companies, government departments, associations – have been selected due to their slavish adherence to hierarchical diktat, not because they are competent, courageous, or particularly bright. As such, like a priest who’s been caught watching pr0n by a passing bishop, they’re prone to blurting out the first thing that comes into their heads according to their indoctrination. If they were capable of rational thinking, measured language, and reasonableness they’d never have got the job in the first place.<\/p>\n

The statement from the parents blames the response of the association for mismanaging the incident. The group says leadership of the association never met the parents or team staff members before posting an apology, which they say gave the video further exposure online.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is because their priority is their careers, not the reputation of the association nor the welfare of the boys.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are out there to protect all the kids that are in minor hockey . . . we don\u2019t feel that they protected these 17 kids with what went on,\u201d said Kearney.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Faced with the choice of a potential black mark on their performance appraisal or putting children in physical peril, they chose the latter.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe feel that the people that were in place, the executives, need to take responsibility for what they did and own up to it and make sure that this doesn\u2019t happen again.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If they were capable of taking responsibility, this situation would never have arisen. What they need to do is be fired and replaced with people who aren’t so obviously self-serving.<\/p>\n

Roxanne Janes, another parent of a player on the team, said the parents have reached out to the association on two separate occasions with no response.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, yes. Why should they talk to you? They’re the ones in charge.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately what ends up happening is a lot of these kids end up quit playing the game that they love because of the decision of adults that are put in place to protect these kids,\u201d said Kearney.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A small price to pay for the elimination of racism in our society.<\/p>\n

While this may only concern a minor league hockey association in a remote Canadian mining town that even old hands think is a dump, the incident has all the hallmarks of what you see playing out on a much larger scale across the western world. Those running the association are the exact same sort of people who now make up our ruling classes. They’re also running every company and organisation you can think of. Fun times, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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