Niki Ashton: Intersectional Poster Child for Canada
Meet Niki Ashton, Member of Parliament for Churchill-Keewatinook Aski. She is a member of the New Democratic Party of Canada. As loony toons as the socialist progressive NDP is, she's still one of their more radical basket cases. Also, she's running to become their leader, or to be their poster child for intersectional insanity.
I suppose it'll be a good referendum in the party on whether or not they've completely lost their minds and become outright Intersectionalists. Intersectionality is, at it's bones, merely replacing a values system with a Marxist dichotomy applied to all aspects of life and politics. It appears that Niki Ashton is in the business of embracing her desire to be a Marxist culture warrior and classify everyone based on their place on the oppression stack. Recently, she released her platform on what an NDP government under her would do to address "racial justice". I'll of course leave the link at the bottom to see for yourself, and hope that it doesn't give you an aneurism.
Now, on to some of the proposals
"Immediately end the practice of carding on a federal level by the RCMP and ensure provinces and territories end carding practices within local police forces. Carding is a form of documenting racialized and vulnerable persons without just cause or suspicion of a crime. The practice of carding violates Section 9 of our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, erodes the relationship between communities and police, and fundamentally violates dignity and personal freedoms. Carding is a racially motivated practise that does nothing to improve our safety, but simply disengages police from communities while creating mistrust. Further, this practise economically disenfranchise already vulnerable people, making it harder for them to access safe housing, good jobs and justice. As leader of Canada’s NDP, I will end this discriminatory practise on the federal level and work with all levels of government to end carding on a local level."
First off, what the hell is a "racialized" person? Is it a person who gets indoctrinated into another race? Second, I can agree to some extent with rolling back the practice of carding. Yes, ethnic minorities are more likely to be carded, and the current database overreaches and harms innocent people. But abolishing it entirely? I don't think so. I can get behind the idea of reforming it simply so that someone who has done nothing wrong, and is not under suspicion of anything does not have their information dumped into the database. It strikes me as wasteful and prejudicial against innocent people when they're put on a list somewhere just because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. As for people who are persons of interest, or actually have committed a crime? Feel free to dump them into the database, leave the innocent people out of it. More importantly, I'd like to see a study that examines whether these people are actually being targeted based on race, or if people are simply being targeted in high crime or high risk areas. Can we please examine if this is a race matter or a crime matter before we jump on the cops?
"Implement TRC calls to action by expanding practices of restorative justice within the justice system. Restorative justice is an alternative to criminal justice that focuses on rehabilitation through community based reconciliation. Indigenous peoples, and in particular Indigenous women, are vastly overrepresented in our prison system. Working towards the justice model set forward by the TRC will lower the rates of incarceration that unjustly faces indigenous communities. In addition to this, we will explore the tools available to the federal government and with work with the provinces and territories to implement Recommendation 62 from the call to action of the TRC within the justice system."
Okay, prison is not a place for politics or democracy. People are in jail because they committed a crime and got caught, not because they fulfill some sort of insane racial quota. If you commit a crime and get caught, you get arrested and charged. It's not exactly difficult to understand this, unless you're a raging Intersectionalist like Niki. Fuck off, you don't replace the existing justice system with a system where the offender says they're so very sorry for stabbing people, or stealing that car, and carry on their merry way. More importantly, you don't punish someone differently because of the colour of their skin, or their ethnicity, because that's actual racism. Being more lenient on one group of people because you view them as more oppressed is also racist....and stupid.
"Strengthen transparency and accountability practices for the RCMP by creating an independent special investigative office mandated to review reports of racial and other discriminatory behaviour, and inform disciplinary action, including criminal prosecution. Internal investigations rarely lead to justice. A truly independent office would ensure that police are held accountable when failing to act fairly and without prejudice."
Okay no, you cannot introduce the thought police to witch hunt the cops. Internal investigations do lead to justice, just not the way you want, Niki. You want every single cop accused of anything under the sun to be tossed into the gulag. The problem you have with internal investigations by Internal Affairs is that punishment requires evidence, and your worldview has no time or place for evidence. You're an Intersectionalist, which means in this matter you identify law enforcement as a hateful oppressor, and guilty in their hearts. Would you like it if your life was destroyed, your reputation in ruins, and facing jail time based purely on someone making an accusation? Please tell me that. You don't want justice, you want a witch hunt.
"Strengthen the power of the MMIW Inquiry to investigate police misconduct. An NDP government under my leadership would immediately revise the Terms of Reference of the Commission mandate to explicitly include the right to investigate all relevant Federal, Provincial and Municipal police forces as well as ensure that the commission has the right to investigate specific cases and that police have a legal responsibility to provide all evidence under court order. The inquiry would also provide judicial authority to the commission to investigate all evidence of policing misconduct and the inadequate protection of Indigenous women and girls."
This is mostly just applying the previous proposal to all federal, provincial, and local police. It's another layer of bureaucracy. So very eager to blow more tax money on waste. In fact, I'll skip the next proposal since it mostly deals against with nailing cops to the wall.
"Mandating racial justice training for all police by adopting the Campaign Zero policy recommendations regarding police training and biases. We would work with provinces to ensure this becomes part of local police mandates as well. "
Okay, so your proposal to combat crime in racial minority neighbourhoods is to change police approach to racial or gender considerations before deciding whether or not to arrest someone for committing a crime, assuming there will even be police at all. Good job Niki, let the criminals cry racism and let slip the dogs of mayhem. The only ones that will be hurt are the victims of crime, and neighbourhoods stuck in a cycle of poverty and hopelessness by the gangs that run amok. Because this has worked SO WELL in vulnerable areas of the US where police presence was dialed down because politicians wanted to appear anti-racism.
"Committing to investing in in-prison education and training as well as financial support for young people just getting out of prison so they can have fair access to an education, and the opportunity to change their lives. We know that that education empowers rehabilitation. By offering offenders educational programs we can reduce the number of reoffenders and drastically lessen the prison population."
Oh that's always good. Commit a crime while you're young so that the government hands you a big fat cheque and a college admission. That'll show the meth heads what justice is all about. If you want a program to connect ex-cons with meaningful work, that's fine. But simply handing money to young offenders because feelings? Go fuck yourself.
"Banning employers from asking about criminal records from convictions of certain non-violent crimes. Having a criminal record in many cases highly lessens one’s ability to secure employment. For those with minor offences, this is a major problem and has a large impact on creating a string of repeat offenders. Further, as racial minorities are highly overrepresented in our prison system, they are disproportionately affected by this issue. This affects eligibility for housing, public programming, education, licenses, loans, employment, and other services. By banning employers from asking about criminal records from convictions of certain non-violent crimes, we are avoiding the possibility of minor offenders possibly becoming repeat offenders and encourage healthier communities."
Okay, no. An employer has every right to know the criminal history of someone they're considering hiring. Why? Because theft is a non-violent offense. Stalking is a non-violent offense. Public lewndess is a non-violent offense. All sorts of things considered non-violent crimes could be highly detrimental to one's business should they hire the person. So would would Ashton ban me from knowing an applicant at, say a retailer, has a history of theft from past retailers? A person with a past conviction for financial fraud or repossessions SHOULD give pause to potential lenders at a bank. Of course, Niki's only concern is that such a criminal record can hinder their access to her lovely socialist government services, or make them feel bad about past criminal acts. Good! There should be consequences.
This utter stupidity is giving me a migrain just writing about it, so I'll leave the link below so you can check out the insanity itself. But that's Niki Ashton, potential ruler of the Nutter Democratic Party, Canada's poster child for Marxist insanity.