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Jamie Sarkonak: Toronto principal bullied over false charge of racism dies from suicide (nationalpost.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] Alteon 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wow. Just fucking wow. I really hope those administrators feel really proud of how much good they did. They were so inclusive in their equality training that they bullied a man to suicide. Fucking go them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

They are just going to hide and blame KOJO, even though they support what they say. Nothing will happen to either since he committed suicide. If they get sued, they will just pay and it will go away. Nothing will change.

[+] [email protected] -26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, this is very disingenuous. He actually was a racist, and there is no established connection with his suicide. Many racists kill themselves often.

[–] Alteon 17 points 1 year ago

Did you know him personally?

Aside from his work as an educator, Bilkszto was an advocate. He was a member of the Toronto chapter of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR), an advocacy organization dedicated to civil rights and anti-discrimination, which he took the lead in establishing. In education specifically, he was a member of SOS TDSB, an organization working to preserve the district’s merit-based admissions system for specialty programs (the TDSB recently began using a lottery system to admit students, to the ire of many).

“Richard Bilkszto was a great man,” read the statement of SOS TDSB. “He contributed so much to the fight for quality education, for fairness and a better school system, and we are all so much poorer for his loss. Our heart goes out to his family, friends, and the thousands of students and colleagues he knew, and loved, and who loved him in return.”

Yeah...He sounds like such a racist.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Proof that he was racist?