Bilkszto died by suicide which according to his family was 100% caused by an online anti racism training.

Bilkszto filed a lawsuit against the [Toronto District School Board] TDSB earlier this year, related to a 2021 online anti-racism training session where he claims to have been implicitly referred to as a white supremacist by the trainer and berated in front of his colleagues when he disagreed that Canada was more racist than the U.S.

None of the allegations have been proven in court ...

The claim says Bilkszto acknowledged the country's own anti-Black racism, but suggested Canada was a more just society than the U.S., making reference to different approaches to public education and health care.

He alleged the TDSB failed to investigate his workplace harassment claim and then retaliated by disinviting him from a graduation for a program he helped create and revoking a temporary contract offer.

He started a sick leave shortly after the training sessions and was diagnosed with anxiety secondary to a workplace event, according to the claim and a copy of a Workplace Safety and Insurance Board decision provided by his lawyer, lightly redacted to omit the names of medical professionals and the case manager, along with addresses and phone numbers.

The WSIB decision dated Aug. 16, 2021, concluded Bilkszto was subject to workplace harassment and bullying. The case manager wrote the trainer appeared to intend to cause reputational damage and make an example out of him. The decision granted him loss-of-earnings benefits up to July 1, 2021, noting the medical evidence on file indicated he could return to work at that time.

Interesting how an outside trainer is apparently responsible not only for a brief interaction during a workshop but also for subsequent actions taken by TDSB's management. Somehow (not explained) she was plotting behind the scenes to have this guy's hours cut. No one is safe from the embrace of precarious work, not even alternative school ex-principals.

Not that is matters much, but for some context: Toronto is a minority white city with some areas being <25% white. So it's extremely on topic for anyone in charge of a highschool to know about how people see things even if he didn't happen to agree.

  • GenXen [any, any]
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    1 year ago

    I was scratching my head on this until I actually clicked in to the article and read how this guy was all about scrapping affirmative action-like policies and founding a 'non-partisan civil rights organization that supports a "colour-blindness" approach to race'. Most Canadians have the (white supremacist) belief that Canad as less racist than the US, I would expect a trainer in this arena would be prepared to encounter. Based on his track record, I think I can safely assume that it was more than a simple ideological disagreement during this training session.

    If he wasn't a chud, he was a liberalism, and I can picture the interaction to be insufferable either way.

    • AlkaliMarxist
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      1 year ago

      First I thought “good”

      Then I read OPs quote and thought “that doesn’t make sense”

      Then I read your post and thought “oh. good”

    • glans [it/its]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      do you think he intended to martyr himself?