So Lefties, Who's the Dummy Now?

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Maclean's has just published a new article on the Wilfrid Laurier free speech fiasco.

What caught my eye though was the juxtaposition of a few paragraphs about Jordan Peterson combined with an inset photo link to a past attack on Jordan Peterson specifically and all conservatives generally:
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This other article is penned by none other than the always bloviated Tabatha Southey. I would LOVE to see her in a debate with Peterson or Ben Shapiro or Dennis Prager. They would make mincemeat out of her. Oh wait, according to the new rules of the Left, I've just caused violence against Ms. Southey because, don't you know, words are violence, up is down, and green is yellow.


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i don't know why anyone would debate these jerks. their premise is false, their ideas are B S, they have nothing of value to offer society.

Remove public funding of all "Studies" programs. They are nothing but Marxist propaganda that destroys young minds and divides us. They should be 100% paid for by the students who want to take them.
End tenure and remove the ideologues wasting our kids' money with their BS.

Is MacLean's the stupid person's news magazine? Is Tabitha Southey the stupid person's opinion columnist? (note: those are rhetorical questions.)

Old saying updated for "current year":

Sticks and stones may break my bones,
But words are systemic violence and intolerance

As Nelson Muntz would say, "it's a victimless crime, like punching a nazi in the dark".


Conservatives are dummies.

Hands down. No doubt. Game over.

We lost. Big time.

Really the only thing left is for the government to tell us the exact date we became OWNED by Government so we know when to celebrate. Or not.

Pierre the Red started it.

His spawn, the Castro/China Admirerer, will be in power for 20 years.

It ain't gonna get better comrade.

We can all dream, but forget it as there is a progressive power structure that controls our political class, media, and educational facilities behind all of this leftist garbage. Diversity of thought and speech no longer allowed.

Even that leftist loon Stephen LeDrew was fired from CP24 for appearing on FoxNews.

canonymouse, exactly!

The real story is that so much time is being spent on childish silliness: drama queen drips contriving anxieties that are constructed on imaginary victimhood for the purpose of generating attention.

Canada: old Wyandot word meaning "land of wailing papoose"


The real story is the Media.

Gotta fix it.

The question is how.

Unfortunately, there is no cure for stupid voters.

Like trees, Canada has an abundance.

"The real story is the Media"

The media is nothing but a symptom of a population that is becoming evermore soft, shallow, silly, cowardly and lazy.


Well, Conservatives better learn to manipulate them as well as the Left.

I don't know the words to The Internationale and I can't sing.

Is Tabatha Southey the stupid woman's smart person?

Her article has a point to it, but it's a very stupid point. It reads like something one of my less able undergraduate students would write. Southey doesn't seem to realize that Jordan Peterson probably couldn't care whether he gets called any of the lame names she concocts for him, so long as he isn't called "she."

To me, the following is ironic, since Southey thinks it shows how insane Peterson is, whereas I've assumed for decades the truth of the proposition: "He’s already concluded that the entire fields of “women’s studies, and all the ethnic studies and racial studies groups” “have to go,” and that sociology, anthropology, English literature, and education are all “corrupt.”"

No need to worry yourself, canonymouse. When we go full red, our new NKVD will know exactly what to do with these useless, idle, Bourgeois coffee-shop sandal-wearing, counterrevolutionary insurrectionists...These are dangerous, foreign-funded provocateurs, and represent a clear and present danger to the ideals of the revolution, and to the interests and welfare of the workers.

The re-education camp trains will be quite full... Ask yourself this: who is more useful to the goals of a successful red proletariat revolution? Modern-day conservatives, or useless, self indulgent petulants?

Southey has a nerve complaining about Peterson going "on and on". I could not get through her article. She is singularly unfunny and downright banal. I am disappointed that McLeans has hired her. Between her and Stephen Maher, I have backed off of subscribing.

Ha ha ha ha ... so the LEFT (via MacClains mag.) is DESPERATE to reclaim Lindsay Shephard as one of their “own”. Lindsay “believes” in Global Warming ... recycles all her plastic ... never watches television ... was raised by a government school teacher ... embraces gender fluidity ... has a “Persian” boyfriend (insert my sad face here :(... ) ... and is learning to speak Farsi. Oh gawwwd. Oh ... and of course ... they got Lindsay to disavow her “Alt. Right” “Nazi” fanboys (of which MacLains would no doubt include me). So ... this leftist mag rag will overlook Lindsay’s one little FAILING in her belief in FREE SPEECH. What a JOKE. We (apparently Alt. Rightists) have no illusions about what it is we admire in Lindsay Shepard’s actions. FREE SPEECH. That’s it. That’s enough. Because ... you see, MacClains ... we on the (apparently Alt. Right) don’t wish to MAKE Lindsay stop “believing” in man-made Global Warming ... because WE “believe” in FREE SPEECH. We don’t want her to LOSE her TA job because she “believes” in Global Warming. We on the (apparently Alt. Right) believe that the State has no business telling people what to think. We don’t believe that ANY institution should have a Minister of “Racial and Gender Equity”. We are thrilled that Lindsay recorded the Kafkaesque interrogation administered by the EXTREMIST LEFTISTS at her University.

bingo

Non-leftists need to counter the idea that not addressing a person by whatever title they've chosen is invalidating them as a person, rejecting their human identity and is therefore an act of violence. Your identity and humanity should not depend on constant validation by every person who comes in contact with you. If your identity is so fragile that even one person not complying with your demands makes you feel physically assaulted then you need to work on resilience.

Healthy, stable people do not leave themselves at the mercy of strangers in that manner. For instance, I refuse to use the title Doctor unless you're a medical doctor. Do people with doctorates psychologically crumble when they aren't addressed by their preferred title? Rarely, I'd suspect. Judges are the exception and their titles are deliberately used to reinforce the power structure of the court. A cynic might think that the gender debate is actually this kind of power play.

I never realized you earned a Doctorate ... but it certainly fits with what I read of your posts. PS ... you’re absolutely right. The State cannot EVER “provide” self-respect and dignity of individuals, by FORCING the behavior of others. Each individual is responsible for their own emotional well being. Forcing others to fake it ... is just stupid. And hopefully, the US SCOTUS will soon rule that I do NOT have to bake a cake for some pretend wedding.

No, I don't have a doctorate. I worked in applied science, without a university degree. Given the state of universities I think I made the right choice when I switched from university to polytech. Industrial work also gave me a better experience in diversity, just not the kind progressives are interested in.

I used the example about doctors to illustrate a point only.

In only a few years Maclean's has become the Salon of Canada. It's hard to imagine Mark Steyn writing for this magazine nowadays, or having their support in taking on the Human Rights Tribunals.

What is left of the MSM has fallen to such a low level of journalistic competency.
It's pathetic.

Anyone interested in the news has already watched Lindsay Shepherd's interviews with intelligent people on youtube, and heard a recording of the show trial fiasco, she was subject to.

How can less intelligent writing about very intelligent people's thought count as journalism? It doesn't.

Assisted dying for the MSM would be mercy, but it's not needed.

So far they're proving themselves capable of committing a slow, painful but effective seppuku (hara kiri).

Fortunately, we aren't forced to watch them bleed out.

They're minds are hollow, only a little more red ink from the body left to go.

That silly b!#ch would never put herself in a position where she would have to debate Professor Peterson.

So there's that.

Ugh.
Thank you for the reminder, I will never accept a subscription to MacLeans ever again.
The stupid is stupifying.

Ms Southey's strong dislike of Peterson may have deep seated causes. According to her ex husband she's been diagnosed with Borderline Personality disorder. That would explain a lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaC-2lj6HNg&feature=youtu.be

I dumped Macleans about fifteen years ago when I got sick of the Liberal shilling.

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