Ontario school board backs trustee who said white, Christian males are the 'most dangerous creature on the planet'

A Catholic school board meeting in Ontario ended in chaos Monday night after local residents showed up to protest a trustee publicly calling white Christian males the “most dangerous creature on the planet.”  

The Waterloo Catholic District School Board was questioned by Rebel News journalist David Menzies about its stance on the social media posts of Trustee Wendy Ashby, who on Oct 16 tweeted to say that the “most dangerous creature on the planet is the white Christian male. They’re a Threat (sic) to anyone that is not them.”   

In video footage shared on Twitter, Menzies read out Ashby’s tweet and asks if the board condemns or approves of the statement. Rather than answering his question, Board Chair Tracey Weiler cautions Menzies that should he continue, he will be removed from the meeting.

Please sit down, sir. This outburst will not be accepted,” said Weiler.

“Do you approve or condemn this racist, sexist, anti-Christian statement?” Asked Menzies, at which point the assembled crowd erupted in applause and cheers.

The board eventually called an end to the meeting and left the room while local residents clapped and chanted “shame, shame, shame.”

Ashby was not in attendance at the meeting, and her Twitter account no longer exists, but the tweet read out in the meeting is not the only one to have caused outrage.

On March 28, Ashby called white women “obedient soldiers for the Christofascist patriarchy” according to a screenshot of a now-deleted reply shared by LifeSiteNews.

These comments prompted parents and local stakeholders to organize Monday’s protest at the school board meeting, as well as the launch of a petition to have Ashby removed from her position on a Catholic school board.

We, the undersigned, in light of the hateful and abusive social media posts issued by WCDSB Trustee Wendy Ashby attacking white, Christian males, whom she vilifies as ‘the most dangerous creature on the planet’, and also against Christianity itself, which she denigrates as a ‘Christofascist patriarchy’, formally demand the immediate resignation of Trustee Ashby,” reads the petition that has garnered 2,425 signatures so far.

The petition calls Ashby’s comments irresponsible, slanderous, accusatory, and inflammatory and argues that she is marginalizing, stigmatizing and possibly endangering “a sizeable group of the very students she is responsible for protecting and supporting.”

“The glaring contradiction between Ms. Ashby’s fiduciary responsibility as a WCDSB Trustee to ensure the welfare and safety of the students under her care, on the one hand, and her obscene vitriol leveled against a large segment of that same student demographic, on the other, make her manifestly unfit to continue serving as a Trustee, and her further tenure in that capacity would be irreconcilable with both fundamental justice and good governance at the WCDSB,” concludes the petition.

Protests at school board meetings are becoming increasingly common across Canada and the nation’s parents start to understand the harm of radical left ideologies in education. Trustee meetings in the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board have been met with protests recently after a father raised concerns about trans-identified male students having access to female spaces in high schools.

Halton District School Board meetings in Ontario were also the focus of much controversy when parents demanded that the board take action to prevent a trans-identified male teacher, Kayla Lemieux, from wearing enormous prosthetic breasts to class.