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TC is more progressive in the best sense of that word than many commentators in the mainstream media. He calls out injustice and manipulation on the right and left. Yes he’s conservative, but let’s be honest, most MSM is liberal-biased.

“They”? That’s also problematic. How accountable are the “they”?

Don’t equate a refusal to take responsibility with being a science-minded person. They’re not identical. The dangers of A.I. are real and will get worse if we don’t limit its power and control. As for you accusations of tribalism. If you claim to be scientific then you’ll acknowledge the basic human psychology of humans being more comfortable with what they can identify and what they see to be comfortable and safe. To pretend otherwise is to deny reality, but sure, there’s plenty of that happening. Not anything goes.

You can’t define the terms you use. I have an assignment for you: Research the rise of Nazism including the steps that led to the Kristal Nacht, banning of political opposition parties, and Final Solution. Basically first understand what that horrific political party promoted and did. Research Marxism by reading the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital. Read about the rise of Lenin and the Russian Revolution. Learn about the Frankfurt School and hermeneutics. Learn about Mussolini, fascism, and Futurism. Read Derrida and Foucault until you get the gist. Read about Nihilism Read the Brothers Karamazov Afterwards try to see where your recent outlook on transgenderism and Antifa stands in relation to these various forces. Read dystopian novels like Brave New World and 1984 You might be surprised at how statist, fascistic, nihilistic, and Marxist your views are. You might see a relationship between your judgments about people and totalitarian identity groups and forms of discrimination. I think that’s a good 6 months of work if you get to business. Talk to me after that.

You don’t understand what cultural currents or movements are. Your views are quite Marxist but my guess is that so are the views of your friend group. It’s your ethos. It’s uninformed partial truth activism. It’s very much in campus culture and in most mainstream media. You just don’t know what’s Marxist about it because you don’t really know much about Marxism or materialist frameworks of analysis. I’ve actually studied them and used the lens of such perspectives to analyze events. That’s what education does. You want to find some guy with a crystal ball behind the scenes. It doesn’t work that way, though there certainly are powerful groups, movements, market forces, etc. Knowledge is power so if you want to impress, learn more.

The sad thing is that many posters seem like bots because of the seemingly mindless lack of critical thinking. It’s shocking actually. The zombie apocalypse is a quiet revolution. It’s very clear how totalitarianism was able to establish itself in so many countries. Unquestioning compliance and cowardice are the rule, not the exception, it seems. Cognitive dissonance is another major driver in zombie land. People simply can’t believe that life isn’t actually what they saw on TV or in the Toronto Star. It’s easier to buy in than to question. People won’t notice A.I. take over until their access to weed gets cut off. Then it’s fisticuffs.

I’m going to give you one last break because I genuinely don’t want to watch you continue to embarrass yourself. Learn about the authors and the writings behind the movements and events you carelessly and incorrectly cite. It will give you more credibility and influence. You’re an exemplar of the expression, “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.” You speak with fervour but lack some very basic knowledge and understanding of the ideas you mention. Read, read, read.

Are you for real? How old are you? I’m thinking the other posters on here are correct in their assessments of a very immature mind.

Opposed to feminism? You first need to define what you mean by feminism before you can claim whether or not I agree with it. I support aspects of feminism but I don’t believe in empowering one gender over the other. Each generally has different more dominant traits and both genders are important. One isn’t better.

Do you understand what movements and trends are? There’s no Oz wizard “running” the media. Funny.

Oh really, you don’t even know the timeline for these writers. Marx came well before the Frankfurt School. Unfortunately I can’t give you more time because you simply have too much to learn. It’s okay. Keep reading.

What an uninformed stretch. Also, I don’t think Marxists are promoting atheism, silly. Marxists are atheists. Have you read any Marx? Yeesh. “Religion is the opiate of the masses.” Marx

You think that these descriptions are Nazi, but the ideas are self-proclaimed by the leaders within the movements themselves. That’s where you miss the boat. The Redstockings said about their beliefs what I just summarized. You seem to want to pretend that reality is something other than what it is, which explains your anti-scientific beliefs in transgenderism. I see a pretty complete picture actually. You don’t like facts like biology because they disagree with the revolutionary world you want to inhabit. You’re definitely a phenomenon of the times.

Cultural Marxism is not the central idea of Nazism. Get real. They did talk about Bolshevism a lot because the Russian Revolution was a major cultural force in Weimar Germany. Germany almost became communist, like many Western European countries. You’re trying to make mainstream right commentators out to be monsters for using terms that you claim are Nazi, but it’s such a shallow and fallacious argument that no reasonable person can take seriously. It doesn’t surprise me though. There’s definitely a push in western culture today to see white supremacy everywhere. Sorry to disappoint you, but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

No I think you’re talking out of your ass. It’s got nothing to do with Jews and it’s not a conspiracy theory. You need to learn about critical theory, post-modernism, and feminism in order to understand what’s being called out as “Cultural Marxism” in the sense described in cultural commentary. It’s really just a rebranding of Marxism, which reduces everyone and everything to a material commodity in a class struggle. Radical feminists such as the Redstockings, for example, believed that the state should take over reproduction to break patriarchal oppression and liberate women. It involves belief in the supremacy of the state in all affairs and the elimination of the family unit. Liberate people from family and nature through technology such as birth control and test tube reproduction. End the domination of the owners of production by having the state take over private business and have a vanguard of the Proletariat manage production in a technocracy that allocates resources based on analysis of data collected by the state. Read theorists like Derrida who wrote about how uncertainty/sophistry is a condition of language because there’s no transcendental signified, no “Truth”, etc As Foucault said, knowledge is power and the dominant narratives of our culture illustrate how language is used to assert dominance. If you think about Post-Modern terms like Late Capitalism, we already have a society that socially engineers behaviour to meet state goals in many areas, from public health to distribution of capital (earnings/profits) based on metrics established by the state. Even private companies are backstopped by the central banks which are always working in close collaboration with international policy bodies like the IMF, Bank of Settlements, World Economic Forum, etc. Behind the scenes of elected governments is a great deal of unaccountable central planning. It looks in some ways like socialism but it has fairly unaccountable elites centrally deciding much of what goes on in modern developed countries. There’s nothing conspiratorial about it. This is basic Noam Chomsky. The elites could be called a Vanguard of the Proletariat, but as in communist countries, they always protect themselves and enjoy more capital than anyone else. The criticism of cultural/social traits such as Cultural Marxism and Nihilism is that when everyone is simply an input in the production of capital, without souls and under total control of the state, individuals have no recourse to a higher authority than government. They don’t matter as individuals because they only matter for what they contribute to the “society” at large. Families are inconvenient to the state because they carry authority. Religious belief is also considered a threat to the state. Marxism and socialism (its euphemistic twin) are unrealistic and destructive because they pretend that human nature doesn’t exist and inevitably lead to worse forms of unaccountable top-down oppression. The Soviet Union had a beautiful sounding constitution but the rights were always watered down in the name of centrally planned goals like Stalin’s Five Year Plan. They always lead to the gulag and a “cultural revolution” that destroys what people have created and built using accumulated knowledge and wisdom. They also destroy incentive and creativity. It’s arguable that we’re in a form of cultural revolution now as free speech and meritocracy are thrown out in the name of identity politics goals. That’s why people are up in arms about ideas like Critical Race Theory, because it’s just a rehash of Marxism where a designated identity group are the oppressed workers. It’s very convincingly argued that it’s just another iteration of Marxism, because its founder Derek Bell was a Marxist and it uses the language of class struggle, replacing class with race. Many thinkers were Marxist half a century ago. The ignoring of science is another aspect of cultural Marxism, as is the erosion of religious rights. As much as I think we have to be wary of Marxism, I think fascism is a real concern, but it’s not what you seem to think it is. Fascism is totalitarian control by the partnership of business and the state. Think of ESG and UN “sustainability goals” and how big business uses this rhetoric to dominate workers and sell goods with the blessing of governments. You have to be wary of all forms of oppression from all political stripes. Unexpectedly, the traditionally liberal parties are purveying a lot of this fascistic behaviour. That’s partly why the system is so consolidated. It uses flowery progressive language.

it explains why intelligent people are being shouted off campuses and speaking events. We started affirming stupidity in the name of not offending anyone. The problem is that good and bright people have lost their jobs and reputations as a result. Cancel culture is a real threat, but the lunatics have been allowed to run the asylum and they’ve fired any opposition.

No it isn’t. You’re committing the fallacy of over-generalization by saying, Nazis criticized Marxism, therefore criticism of Marxism is Nazism. It’s like saying, Hitler was a vegan, therefore all vegans are Hitlers. Just because criticizing Marxism was an attribute of Nazism doesn’t mean that everyone who criticizes Marxism is a Nazi. That’s basic logic. Don’t be stupid.

They should’ve gone with the “State affiliated media” designation owing to the marriage between the NDP-Liberals and the CBC. I laughed when I read this news in “The Canadian Press”, another state-affiliated media organization.

It’s very simple: They removed prayer from schools, as the public system had been Anglican by default (the Crown church). I bet you think it was a dumb move, but that’s what they did. The Catholics maintained religious education. What’s interesting is that parents of all religious backgrounds are selecting Catholic secondary education over public because at least God and gospel values are at the centre. Though, as discussed, some Catholic school boards are caving into highly experimental secular ideas on transgenderism, etc. The Catholic Church and Human Rights legislation are in conflict on some issues. We’re supposed to have religious freedom. For example, Catholic doctors can’t be forced to perform abortions if they don’t want to do them, but as we saw with Wynne’s legal protection of “Gay Straight Alliances” in Catholic schools, the Catholic system can be strong-armed into going against the Catchism. It happens because many so called Catholics don’t believe in Catholic principles. For example, Biden and Trudeau claim to be Catholics but are both staunch supporters of unlimited abortion access and gender affirmation. Trudeau banned pro life people from the Liberal Party of Canada and even prevented youth from getting summer jobs if they aren’t pro choice.

Each person has a unique biology and history regardless of race, gender, or identity group. Trying to quantify victimhood or privilege based solely on superficial variables is a mug’s game, because both privilege and victimhood cross all identity groups. We also all are born with different abilities, have different levels of motivation, different interests, values, environments, and on and on. The only accurate metrics are measuring merit based on skills, knowledge, and mostly output. Likability is harder because everyone again has a range of likes. Some people are more popular than others. Does this depend on whether the audience is your identity in-group? Only somewhat. Popularity is mostly based on virtues like punctuality, conscientiousness, generosity, personal sacrifice, and competence. I’m white but my favourite comedians happen to be black because they’re hilarious. Judging people primarily based on superficial identity groups is stupid, unless the identities are at the extreme, such as rapists or murderers. Credibility in the workplace and among community is built over time based on what people actually do more than on any other factors.

This is so blatantly stupid. You basically say that anyone who calls you what you yourself claim to be is a Nazi. Why don’t you look at your constant messaging. It’s all anti-capitalist, anti-pluralism, anti free speech, anti religious rights, and anti-women’s rights. You don’t like religious freedom and call Christians right wing extremists. You claim that anyone who has concerns about how trans competition and use of female or male spaces is a fascist. You call half of Americans fascists for supporting the Republican Party. You defend your views by saying that anyone who calls out your cultural Marxism is demonstrating Nazism, because some site you visited told you that cultural Marxism doesn’t exist because it’s a Nazi conspiracy theory. So Jordan Peterson and millions of Canadians are Nazis, right? I should just say that everyone who disagrees with me is a Nazi conspiracy theorist. Clearly it’s got you enough affirmation to make you convinced of your own nonsense. You get to be a Marxist without being called one.

Your opinion. I think our government acted in an authoritarian manner. Many US commentators do as well, including on the left. That’s one reason DeSantis has a big following, but of course CBC and the EA Inquiry said the Emergencies Act was warranted so everything is awesome. Anyway, I was questioning eyeball on his particular opinion. No need to proxy for him.

Of course your influence is limited, but one has to believe in the possibility of influencing society in order for any political commentary to have any value.

That’s not my question, and my question was asked of eyeball because of his particular stance on vaccines.

Do you really still think vaccination against C-19 is making a substantial difference to public health? Okay I’ll assume you do. Do you still think that mandating people to be vaccinated against C-19 is necessary and that penalties such as losing one’s job are fair? People on the left say a lot about how authoritarian conservatives are, but for me a great litmus test for who is actually an authoritarian, left or right, depends very much on what people think about dictates such as vaccine mandates, at least where it’s clear that the vaccine doesn’t prevent getting a disease, where the disease isn’t deadly for the vast majority of people, and where vaccination doesn’t stop the spread of the disease. What people claim to be and what they actually do can be quite different, which is why a lot of the traditional associations with the political parties must be thrown out the window today. The traditional workers’ parties seem to be full of elitists who deplore workers.