The phrase “far right,” intended to draw unfavourable comparisons to 1920s and ’30s European fascism, has been twisted into nothing more than a way to smear anyone right of centre as unforgivably extreme or racist, no matter what their actual policies are.
Author and cartoonist Scott Adams has reportedly had his new book “Reframe Your Brain” blocked by Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing, and he has apparently been banned for life from the platform.
The suicide of former Toronto school principle Richard Bilkszto, 60, was one that many of his associates believe was prompted, at least in part, by vicious attacks from an “anti-racism” instructor. After he differed on her assessment of pervasive structural racism, she held up his comments as an example of “white supremacy.” In the progressive-dominated education bureaucracy, this stands as among the worst of sins.
The outrage at the Coutts/NatWest debanking scandal in the United Kingdom does not align with the complete disinterest in Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s debanking of an entire political caste.
It was entirely appropriate for people to express their horror upon discovering banks were routinely passing moral judgment on the politics of their customers. It was correct for the British government to panic and swear to fix the problem (even though they low-key endorsed ESG practices for years). If restrictions are placed on banks in the future, especially relating to their licences, this will mark progress in the protection of citizen rights.
NASCAR and Legacy Motor Club have suspended driver Noah Gragson over his actions on social media.
NASCAR confirmed to Fox Sports that the suspension is related to a meme making fun of the death of George Floyd, a post which Gragson had liked.
A controversial Calgary professor is suing the University of Lethbridge over its decision to cancel a guest lecture she was scheduled to deliver at the school in February.
Frances Widdowson — who was fired from Mount Royal University following heavy criticism of her comments on Canada’s residential school system and the Black Lives Matter movement — is suing the southern Alberta institution alongside student Jonah Pickle and philosophy professor Paul Viminitz, who invited her to the school. The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms filed the lawsuit July 26 on behalf of the three applicants.
There’s been a movement in recent years to infuse social politics into all aspects of our lives, from the food we eat to the cars we drive, from our workplaces to our public institutions. This movement has its merits but at some point, we stopped settling for argument and persuasion. We started to move to demonizing, banning, cancelling and forcing our own various agendas on others.
They should have done the Muslical Ride trampling old ladies.
The Big Sleep, considered one of the greatest works of crime fiction, has been reprinted with a cautionary note by publishing house Vintage
Traditional Chinese culture, thousands of years old, is filled with beautiful Confucian philosophies, kinship rituals, artistic symbolism, mythologies, and regular devotion to family ancestors. To observe any of these ancient customs in person, however, it is Taiwan — not China — where a visitor must go. When mainland Chinese communists bulldozed over China’s rich heritage and Mao Zedong’s “Cultural Revolution” purged the “Four Olds” — old customs, culture, habits, and ideas — from Chinese society, Taiwan became the de facto last refuge for one of the world’s oldest great civilizations.
Corporate behemoths have given up on the pretence of neutrality
The debanking of Nigel Farage demonstrates the power of a law that is already being enforced without having been formalised. Found guilty of crimes by state censors, secret committees of bureaucrats, or inscrutable algorithms, individuals can be disconnected and de-personed by institutions that they didn’t realise possessed such powers. Today it is banks terminating customers for their beliefs; tomorrow it may be primary schools and hospitals. The powerful consensus that once upheld the neutrality of key institutions as essential to maintaining peace in liberal societies is collapsing.
I was just fired from my job at The Seattle Times after defending Hitler. The only problem is, I never defended Hitler. In fact, my family was hunted by the Nazis; my grandfather was a Nazi killer who later almost died in a concentration camp; and some of my best journalistic work has been exposing neo-Nazi lies. But if you want to hear a story about the intolerance in our country’s “most tolerant” city and the erosion of civil discourse in American life, read on.
It is right that the NatWest CEO has resigned.
This would never have happened if NatWest had not taken it upon itself to withdraw a bank account due to someone’s lawful political views. That was and is always unacceptable.
I hope the whole financial sector learns from this… https://t.co/W4i3WYgeyX
— Andrew Griffith MP (@griffitha) July 26, 2023
NatWest boss quits after Nigel Farage leak admission
The music video for Jason Aldean’s country song “Try That in a Small Town” has become a massive hit in the wake of a woke backlash that accused the song of evoking racism.
Despite CMT pulling the video from its rotation, the music video for Aldean’s song has increased viewership by a whopping 999 percent.
The BBC has apologised to Nigel Farage for suggesting that Coutts cut ties with him only because he lacked the funds needed to hold an account.
Simon Jack, the business editor, wrote that the former Ukip leader had lost his account with the bank because he had failed to borrow or invest at least £1 million or hold £3 million in savings. His report played down Farage’s vindicated claim that the closure was driven by his political views.
His lawyers call Toronto psychologist and bestselling author Jordan Peterson a colourful and controversial “online provocateur” whose YouTube videos and tweets are liked by millions.
Peterson’s detractors see him as a showboater who uses controversy to make money, espouses anti-feminist and anti-trans views and spreads misinformation about areas he knows little about; his climate change commentary on a podcast last year was derided by scientists as “stunningly ignorant.”
