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Note the presence of a Palestinian flag
and the absence of any Canadian flag
The NDP convention to elect a new leader was held at
the end of March in Winnipeg. Judging from what little I've seen online, the
party surpassed in absurdity (unintentionally, because everyone took themselves
so seriously) the Rhinoceros Party, founded in 1963 by Québec physician and
writer Jacques Ferron.
Wokism was on the agenda at the convention. I heard
the chair issue this reminder: "I'll again thank delegates not to call me
Madam Chair or Madame la Présidente. I'm a non-binary person. My pronouns are
they, them, and their. Chair is sufficient." She They didn't specify whether she they should be called Chaise or Siège in French which would have inevitably
forced her them to take a position on gender.
I had not imagined this pronoun fad could have got into spoken language. Here are some examples of how some people introduced
themselves:
Point of order. R*** A***. He/They.
B*** N*** S***. Pronouns: he/him.
Hi A*** from Pong. Pronouns: she/her.
My name is M*** T***. My pronouns are: she/they.
My pronouns are: she, her, and elle in French.
It's unfortunate that these activists didn't explore
the concept of non-binary further by drawing inspiration from languages with
dual, trial, or paucal numbers. There's still a lot of work to be done for
researchers in tetracapillectomy.
As a lunatic party, the NDP might just outshine
Britain's Official Monster Raving Loony Party:
Hungary also has a formidable candidate in this group,
the Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party (Magyar Kétfarkú Kutya Párt, of which one of
my former students is a member). You don't need to understand Hungarian to
follow the interview the party leader gave on national television:
