Having offended trans activists by hosting a Harry Potter event, the Vancouver Board of Arts hilariously disavowed the author

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It has taken the august local institution, the Vancouver Board of Arts and Recreation, to truly show Canadians that taking stupidity to the level of absurdity requires all the artifice and virtue signalling of the petty bureaucrat.

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Having offended the trans community by the sin of omission, the parks board decided an apology was not enough. (Note: these are not members of a committee but commissioners as if they commanded the might and power of ancient Roman consuls.)

The board transgressors engineered an emergency meeting where they could be publicly scolded by those they had offended.

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It was an act of self-flagellation worthy of the most religious of zealots.

Our enlightened local government officials decided that standing up for their constituents was not enough, it was now necessary to kneel before a certain group begging forgiveness.

Thanks to the left and its embrace of all things woke, we have reached a level where city bureaucrats have surrendered to the tyranny........

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