#WhatJasonKenneyTaughtMe
a 🧵 poem

Jason Kenney taught me that cruelty wears different faces. Cruelty will put on a festive holiday sweater, sit in a red armchair in front of a Christmas tree, smiling, hands folded nicely in his lap as he lies to your face.

1/11
Cruelty will compromise morals and blur lines, standing in your driveway,
red faced,
spitting mad,
forked tongue.

2/11
Cruelty will not be able to read the room. He'll make publicly make ignorant comments about other Canadians, stand by those comments, and still think he's all that and a bag of Cheezies.

3/11
Cruelty is a heavy-lidded grandmother in a pink blazer, claiming to support teaching Indigenous history/residential schools to students, but will hire a man who calls the idea "a pedagogical fad" to write a eurocentric curriculum instead.

4/11
Cruelty will threaten the lives of AISH recipients and leave them without a concrete answer, living in fear of having their only lifeline ripped from their hands amidst a global health crisis.

5/11
Cruelty is pitting public health against the economy and irreparably damaging both.

Cruelty is the staunch refusal to accept responsibility for the deaths of hundreds,
pouring salt in the wounds of
the loved ones they left behind.

6/11
Cruelty is a lack of leadership
when we needed it most.

7/11
Cruelty was to attend a wine and scotch tasting in a Mercedes-Benz dealership while doctors wrote letters pleading for action,
canaries in Rocky Mountain coal mines,
they knew what was to come,
he refused to listen.

8/11
He made the wrong choice, we will all suffer for it, and he will keep living in complete denial of any wrong doing.

9/11
Jason Kenney taught me that sometimes truly cruel people wear festive holiday sweaters in front of Christmas trees and smile warmly, but it will never quite reach their eyes.

10/11
Sometimes the most cruel people will convince themselves that they've done the right thing so wholly that they cannot accept anything else.

And I think we all know how dangerous rich, white men in power are when they can't accept the truth.

11/11
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