It takes a racist to conduct anti-racism training
Meet Leith Marouf, a rancid bigot on the public payroll.
There is an industry that emerged, seemingly out of nowhere, around ten years ago. It quickly grew at an exponential pace, its tentacles slithering into workplaces, government agencies and even into our own homes. It is completely unregulated. It purports to be a way to bring people together and to understand each other, but in practice it has become a way for hateful, divisive ideologies to spread like a virus, with hatemongers and conspiracy theorists becoming more rich and powerful than ever before. And society appears helpless to stop it.
I’m not talking about social media. I’m talking about the anti-racism consulting industry, which at times appears to have a name completely the opposite of what it actually stands for, like the “Freedom Caucus,” “Antifa” and the Jacksonville Jaguars “Football” team.
Canadian media outlets had been remarkably un-curious about who’s getting money from the federal government to whip its departments into anti-racist line, but Jonathan Kay (building on research conducted by some Jewish organizations) has been using his Twitter account to shine a spotlight on Laith Marouf, who really, really despises racism, injustice, colonialism and Jews. Now that the feral cat is out of the bag, the Canadian Press has picked up the story:
The federal diversity minister says he’s taking action over “disturbing” tweets by a senior consultant on an anti-racism project that received $133,000 from his department.
Ahmed Hussen has asked Canadian Heritage to “look closely at the situation” after what he called “unacceptable behaviour” by Laith Marouf, a senior consultant involved in the government-funded project to combat racism in broadcasting.
Marouf’s Twitter account is private but a screenshot posted online shows a number of tweets with his photo and name.
One tweet said: “You know all those loud mouthed bags of human feces, aka the Jewish White Supremacists; when we liberate Palestine and they have to go back to where they come from, they will return to being low voiced bitches of thier (sic) Christian/Secular White Supremacist Masters.”
Marouf declined requests for comment, but when asked about the post, a lawyer acting for Marouf asked for his client’s tweets to be quoted “verbatim” and distinguished between Marouf’s “clear reference to ‘Jewish white supremacists,”’ and Jews or Jewish people in general.
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Last year, the Community Media Advocacy Centre received a $133,800 Heritage Department grant to build an anti-racism strategy for Canadian broadcasting.
Marouf is listed as a senior consultant on CMAC’s website and is quoted saying that CMAC is “excited to launch” the “Building an Anti-Racism Strategy for Canadian Broadcasting: Conversation & Convergence Initiative” with funding support from Heritage’s anti-racism action program.
He expressed gratitude to “Canadian Heritage for their partnership and trust imposed on us,” saying that CMAC commits to “ensuring the successful and responsible execution of the project.”
Sometimes I resent that I spent so much time and money going to law school when I could have just copied and pasted some David Duke articles, replacing the J-word with the Z-word, and gone into the DEI business.
To be fair, it’s not just Jews - sorry, “white Jews” and “Zionists” - whom Marouf hates. Before he locked down his Twitter account, someone combed through the sewage and collected his greatest hits, and it’s pretty clear that this is one of these people who uses being constantly angry as a substitute for having an actual personality.
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