Neutrality Paints Crosswalks White

The Neutrality Team

Barrhead’s Pride crosswalk is not about neutrality as Caitlin Clarke claims.

What is neutrality? Merriam Webster’s online dictionary defines neutral as “not engaged on either side.” To remain neutral means that one will not participate in controversies of a political, racial, religious or ideological nature. Do not get involved.

That is not what is going on with the painting of the crosswalks in Barrhead... Read More

A Couple Misconceptions

The Neutrality Team

A lie that many seem to be believing is that a Neutrality Bylaw is specifically against the Pride community and that our goal is to show disdain, even hatred, to those who identify with the Pride community.

The wording of the petition targets no specific group but simply asks for public spaces to remain neutral... Read More

Divided We Fall

The Neutrality Team

“Identity politics discards the human identity that unites everyone. It does not acknowledge the common-sense reality that we all share a common human nature, which leaves the illusion that finding common ground is impossible. Real individuals are treated as instantiations of abstract categories, walking chunks of whiteness and blackness, masculinity and femininity, oppression and victimhood, not real embodied individuals with unique minds, bodies, souls, and personal agency.” Robert C. Thornett, college and secondary social sciences instructor and a graduate of the Master's program in Great Books at St. John's College... Read More

It’s Not You, It’s the Policy

The Neutrality Team

The Town of Barrhead created a Decorative Crosswalk Policy that was approved May 14, 2024.
The purpose of this policy is to streamline a way for groups to apply to paint crosswalks around Barrhead. The statement of the policy says that these painted crosswalks are “meant to add colour and virbrancy to the Town’s streets.”

However, this week the Town of Barrhead released a statement regarding the painting of another crosswalk, one with the Disability Flag for Disablilty Pride Month... Read More

The Red Herring

The Neutrality Team

“We’d like a neutrality bylaw that would keep our crosswalks and flagpoles free of political, social and religious causes.”
“You want to ban the Legion Flag?”
“No, no flags would be banned.”
“How dare you dishonour our veterans!”

Wait, what?!... Read More