Proving everything that controversial feminist Meghan Murphy said Tuesday night about being “brainwashed” and intolerant, council refused to put to bed the issue of her Toronto Public Library appearance Wednesday.
Led by the chief of council’s thought police — Kristyn Wong-Tam — they voted 22-1 to conduct a review of the city’s policies around the use of community spaces to ensure any such use does not violate the city’s access and equity, human rights and anti-harassment/discrimination policies.
That review will include consultation with LGBTQ stakeholders.
Only Cllr. Stephen Holyday had the guts to vote against this virtue-signaling nonsense.
Both Paul Ainslie and Gord Perks — library board members — voted for the review, which suggests to me they are quite prepared to throw Chief Librarian Vickery Bowles under the bus for her brave decision to allow Murphy to speak at Palmerston Library Tuesday night, despite the pressure leveled at her to silence free speech.
Wong-Tam told her colleagues that she’s personally heard from friends who are “very hurt” and they need to be mindful of that.
”Trans and non-binary people feel especially hurt,” she said, without a trace of embarrassment.
“They felt their beloved Toronto Library didn’t back them when they needed to.”
Wong-Tam’s motion was somewhat tweaked from her original motion, which had the Chief People Officer Omo Atinkan involved in the review.
She said the mayor’s office had worked with her to make the changes.
Earlier this year, Atinkan had declared that the annual anti-Israel hatefest, the Al Quds rally — which involved a march up University Ave. without a permit and accompanied by a phalanx of police officers — did not violate the city’s human rights or anti-hate policies.
Wong-Tam insisted she was not “casting aspersions” on anyone, but council needs to ensure the city “strengthens” its policies.
She added that the city has a “long way to go” to repair its relationship with “non binary and trans groups.
”This will be Yeoman’s work … we have to find a way to come together to fix that,” she said.
Ask me how much I believe that Wong-Tam isn’t trying to toss Bowles under the bus? She must think we’re all stupid.
And why are we giving what will likely be the same LGBTQ radicals who tried to ruin Pride any say whatsoever?
I say let them retreat to their safe spaces and deal with their little temper tantrum on their own.
For what I saw Tuesday night before and after Murphy’s speech from the rent-a-mob — several hundred shrieking intolerant, childish, petulant, intimidating and definitely angry radicals — was nothing short of obscene.
They tried to bully attendees who simply wanted to hear Murphy speak, and shouted repeatedly “shame, shame” at those of us in the media who came to cover the event.
As Murphy said in her 45-minute talk, most of them had no clue what exactly her views are because they haven’t bothered to find out.
That includes Wong-Tam, who I would guarantee has never taken the time to actually speak with Murphy.
My efforts to obtain a comment from Wong-Tam’s office were ignored yet again.
Repeatedly — since I first revealed a lease signed for a shelter in her ward in early October — her office has refused to acknowledge my requests for comment.
That being said, Wong-Tam has her “regressive ideology” — to echo Murphy’s words — and that won’t change.
However, are Toronto council and Mayor John Tory so weak that they’d go along with this ridiculous, time-wasting review — and put brave Bowles in the spotlight?
Tory already made a fool of himself by trying to pressure the library to ban an event that was anything but hateful.
Had he or any Councillor attended, they might have learned something.
But unlike the people who attended Murphy’s speech Tuesday, our politicians have caved, yet again, to the angry mob.
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