Toxic masculinity is okay, so long as it isn't white

Here's an astonishing piece from the National Post, discussing a white woman who spent years living with an Amazonian tribe.

Ruth Thomson, a one-time Toronto debutante, who knew how to curtsy — and also handle a gun, ride a horse, and live life without modern amenities – spent over 50-years working as a missionary with the Kayapo, a remote Amazon tribe.

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The Kayapo had a reputation for killing foreigners who strayed into their territory. They raided other tribes and took captives. They were warlike and proud.

Well, that'd doesn't sound too inclusive and diverse, does it? It rather sounds like toxic masculinity and slavery.

Some of the men carried rifles — expropriated from dead Brazilians. Others had bows and clubs, perfect for killing wild pigs or bashing in an enemy’s skull. Their faces were brilliantly painted.  

Toxic masculinity indeed. Nary a word of complaint from the author so far.

She has narrowly escaped death by anaconda, witnessed a villager get his finger bitten off by a piranha and been asked to bury a dead Brazilian on a beach — after her Kayapo hosts murdered the man for straying into their lands. 

So they murder people who enter their territory. Hmm. 

“The Kayapo of the 1960s were like the Sioux Indians in the 1840s and 1850s,” says Barbara Zimmerman, director of the Kayapo Project for the International Conservation Fund of Canada. “The frontier was moving in and they were a warrior culture. They were still regularly killing people, and by killing people, I mean people they viewed as a threat or had somehow trespassed on their land. They are not killing people as much now, although they still do.”

Again, murdering people who encroach. Xenophobia, anyone?

Like most cultures, the Kayapo are inherently ethnocentric: They think they are the greatest culture on Earth.  

Wait, what??

Most cultures are ethnocentric? That's not what we are told when the topic is white nationalism.

Fifty years ago they didn’t wear clothes. Now they call Thomson on their cellphones. 

Okay, so what we have here is a group of murderous, xenophobic, racist cultural supremacists. The embody toxic masculinity in all of its forms. Warlike, proud, ethnocentric.

Yet, did you hear a note of condemnation? No, the author seems quite content to engage in euphemisms. If this were a white tribe, you would never hear the end of it.

Canadian Armed Forces might have 30 individuals with 'discriminatory views' in its ranks

A new story on how the Canadian Armed Forces might have 30 individuals with 'discriminatory views' in its ranks. The horrors.

[A] review found that between 2013 and 2018, about 55 members of the military were part of hate groups or had made statements and taken actions that “could be viewed as discriminatory.”

Could be viewed as discrminatory?? That would apply to anyone who thinks that Bruce Jenner isn't as feminine as a non-trans woman. The bar is so low these days that just about any racy comment would quality.

That would cover a range of activities, from an inappropriate comment in a barracks to espousing views on social media or in a chat room. 

 So you make a comment about illegal immigrants in a barracks, and suddenly you are an extremist.

An investigation last year by Radio-Canada found about 75 Armed Forces members were part of a private Facebook group associated with anti-immigration and anti-Islam views.

Criticize immigration and you are an extremist. What is this, Maoist China?

But [the useless military sock puppet being interviewed] again stressed that “good militaries aren’t racist.”  

Tell that to Israel. Or to Turkey. Or to Pakistan. Or to China.

He said extremist views are corrosive and undermine the military’s “warrior ethos” that is designed to “ensure cohesiveness and morale in combat.”

Criticizing immigration will undermine a unit's effectiveness in combat, but diversity (putting people together who have little in common) is fine.

“As we bring in people to the Armed Forces, I’m actively considering right now for the future perhaps a more robust beginning period, that before we teach you the military arts and virtues, we need to have a period of baseline acceptable behaviour, not just from the perspective of the Armed Forces, but just acceptable behaviour,” he said.

So basically, indoctrination before training.

Where do they find these idiots? Only a complete nitwit would maintain that enforcing political correctness is of paramount importance for combat effectiveness.