I'll start by saying that I have little use for Pierre Poilievre. His schtick, which largely revolves around catchy rhyming phraseology ("Axe the Tax'" Hard Time For Hard Crime", "Jail, Not Bail", the enigmatic but non-rhyming "Let's Bring It Home", etc.) instead of substantive policy articulation, is an insult to all who expect their intelligence to be respected. I will admit, however, that thus far it seems to be working for him, if the polls are any indication.
The following video of his recent sit-down with the always aggrieved and, quite frankly, unwell Jordan Peterson, is worth watching. In it, journalist Rachel Gilmore parses some of PP's proclamations during the interview, exposing his shallow/misleading thinking for what it is. If you don't have time to watch the entire nine minutes, I would recommend viewing the last three minutes, which are certainly revelatory.
You can read more about the interview here.
Well, Peterson and Poilievre are right that racism is something wokeism has just imported into Canada.
ReplyDeleteJust ignore Viola Desmond's face on the new tn dollar bill or the Klu Klux Klan parades in Kingston Ontario in the 1920's if I have the dates correct.
Just ignore the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885 (the imfamous Chinese head tax) or and the Chinese Immigration Act, 1923, also known as the "Chinese Exclusion Act" intended to keep out almost all Chinese immigration. Heck none of this was racist.
I get the feeling that Poilievre is truly a nut-case right-winger but that his driving motivation is to be Prime Minister and no trivialites such as truth, ethics or morality are going to impede him.
While watching his tactics as Leader of the Opposition I get the feeling his role model is Mitch McConnell.
Poilievre is truly a nut-case right-winger but that his driving motivation is to be Prime Minister and no trivialites such as truth, ethics or morality are going to impede him."
DeleteYour assessment is bang on, in my view, Anon. And thanks for the very potent reminders of things we would like to forget as Canadians.
My bet would be than neither Poilievre nor Peterson know enough about Canadian history to have the slightest idea about whether or not there was racism in Canada before it was suddenly imported on February 31, 2023 by three transvestite communists and a slightly bewildered Nazi who thought he was going to Sydney New South Wales not Sydney Nova Scotia.
ReplyDeleteA perfect example of a lack of historical knowledge was the "Nazi in Parliament" when our historically ignoramus of a Speaker introduced Yaroslav Hunka, a former member of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Regement of the SS (“Galicia”) as some kind of a hero. He was fighting our allies the USSR.
As an aside it was the 12 Waffen Grenadier Regement of the SS who murdered Canadian prisoners in Normandy.
Still all sorts of public pundents will happily rabbit on about history about which they know nothing. This is an excuse to pull out a lovely take-down of Stephen Pinker which illustrates the problem.
"In other words, of the three people Pinker lists as having supposedly bee burned alive by the Spanish Inquisition during the Middle Ages, only two of them were actually burned alive at all, only one of them was executed by an Inquisition, none of them were executed by the Spanish Inquisition, none of them were executed in the Middle Ages, and none of them were executed for the reason he gives. "
Steven Pinker’s “The Better Angels of Our Nature” Debunked
Author: Spencer McDaniel
https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2020/07/24/steven-pinkers-the-better-angels-of-our-nature-debunked/
Very apt comments, Anon. People's ignorance of history allows these miscreants to flourish. We live in very Orwellian times, and few understand that fact.
DeleteAnon's examples of racism are from before any of us were born. More recent examples would include residential schools and the government's treatment of indigenous Canadians. The courts recognize this, and federal payouts to indigenous groups caused the Libs to blow the 2024 budget by billions.
ReplyDeleteBut aside from indigenous people, I'm having a hard time pointing to current policies, behaviours, rules, etc. that result in disadvantage, unfair or harmful treatment based on race. For decades, governments and educational institutions have given preferential treatment in enrollment, hiring and promotion to non-whites, or what the CBC likes to call "racialized people," as though whites are imposing race on everyone else. This has spread to the private sector, with every major corporation training employees in DEI. So Peterson and Poilievre aren't entirely wrong. Outside of indigenous reserves where are the examples of racist policies?
You pose a very good question, Sumi. I think that government have built some good safeguards to reduce institutional racism, but what happens in real life may be quite different for those bearing the brunt of racism. For example, who is to say a black person wasn't hired due to race, or a tenant denied a lease because of colour? Such practices are legally forbidden, but that doesn't mean they no longer happen.
DeleteThose that dont know history are bound to repeat it?
ReplyDeleteIn Poilievre's case history , amongst every other thing, is selective!!
TB
He is using a faulty sense of history as a weapon, TB, to achieve political gain only.
DeleteDoes Poilievre believe in critical race theory?
ReplyDeleteTB
I doubt he even understands it, TB.
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