CUPE Is Making Me Mad

I’ve been very disgusted by certain unions in Ontario recently that affect me specifically. The Ontario leader of CUPE, the union representing public employees, is now trying to put through a proposal urging all universities in Ontario to boycott and cut ties with Israeli universities that are working on projects that benefit the Israeli military, while the conflict in Gaza is happening. This is a revised proposal, from the original idea to have the universities boycott any Israeli universities that do not explicitly condemn Israel’s actions in Gaza. This brings many things to my mind. The first thought I had was “well this sucks for all us Ontario university students; geeze, thanks” because Israel is a home of innovation, a think-tank. I don’t think that Israel would particularly lament the loss of some collaborations with a few Ontario universities. Another thought that comes to mind is “Hello? What about all of the other wars that are going on? I don’t see you boycotting any US universities for invading Iraq...” or Africa, or the Czech Republic, etc. Yet another thought, where’s the government here? I’d think that if I were in government, I wouldn’t want the employees that represent me, and as a taxpayer, I don’t want the employees who get paid on my money, to take this position. It does not represent my desires. And as a quick note, in the newspaper, the leader (*ahem-Sid Ryan-ahem*) who’s coming up with these great ideas said something about “Israel’s illegal occupation of Gaza”. Well helloooo, since when has the occupation of territories been legal? I’m rolling on the floor laughing over here!

Another thing that’s getting on my nerves, is these people... People like those who say that people who support gay marriage “oppose traditional marriage”, make me laugh and vomit at the same time. You know what, I support traditional schooling, so let’s get all of the blacks out of the schools, and into special ‘negro’ schools. And you know what else, I also support traditional families as well as marriages, so let’s fire all women in the workplace, and send them packing, back to the homes. They need to watch the kids, clean the house, cook, and make themselves look nice, and not bother their pretty little heads with any manly things like politics or science. If supporting gay marriage means opposing “tradition marriage”, I don’t want anything to do with this so-called “traditional marriage”. Marriage should me marriage, between two people who love each other. Wow! Look at that, I’ve just written what should be written in all government books, ‘marriage is between two people who love each other’. And voila, problem solved!

While I’m in this late night ranting mood, I might as well throw in one more thing on rights; the rights of atheists. Why is it, that an atheist cannot hold office in some states in the USA? It can’t just be because we can’t swear on the bible, because there was such an uproar about a Muslim swearing on a Qur’an in court. Even before I became an atheist, swearing on the bible would not matter to me, it wasn’t my bible. Having me swear on the Torah would be a different thing. I think that atheists in office would be a good thing; we come from many different backgrounds and religions, we think logically, listen to evidence, and would keep church and state very separate.

Okay, that ends my rant... gotta get up and go to my Ontario university tomorrow. I'll definitely be at the protest about this CUPE thing this week.
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