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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.

You have control over your thoughts, for now. Or do you? Muhahahaha

I think we’ve already turned over too many switches to algorithms and AI. We set up processes for measuring and responding to data that can never tell the whole story and wonder why we feel so constrained by these limitations. Tech can be used to create dystopian surveillance states, automated drone law enforcement, and social credit systems just as it can be used to liberate us from work and develop cures for diseases. Don’t throw your hands up so easily and accept whatever happens unless you’re prepared to accept the worst possible outcomes.

I think we’ve had quite enough “affirmative action”, because clearly it’s no longer affirmative with a disproportionately much larger number of women in university, etc. Men are falling apart and maleness is constantly ridiculed as toxic.

I disagree. I think feminism has gone too far and left us with a lost generation of young men, a totally dysfunctional military, and workplaces that make allowances for women that they don’t make for men. Can a man have a meltdown in the office and be taken seriously by colleagues the next day, if he manages to keep his job? Wokeism is turning education, businesses, and government organizations into obsessive compulsive apology parades that don’t do much of anything of any real value. China and Russia know this. We bought into the myth that one gender should be exalted and another deplored. The result is a lot of confused people trying to look progressive and saying things that they don’t believe or understand in order to sound like they’re using right-speak. One third of my organization’s communications are basically hand-wringing over feminism, Geoge Floyd, and LGBTQ2I+ gender identity stuff, as though Canada is the US and our PM is Gavin Newsome. I guess that’s somewhat true now. Can the situation change? I hope so or we might as well subsume our government within China’s.

Again though, Protestants had publicly funded religious education that was constitutionally protected, but they let the prayer and religious education be removed much as provinces like Quebec and Newfoundland scrapped Catholic education. Sadly the French and Irish populations gave up important aspects of their cultures in those provinces. Quebec has followed France’s secularism and now leans on bills that ban religious expression for all because they can’t handle the fact that Muslims aren’t willing to give up their religious expression as easily. I prefer the situation in Ontario, though I do question how Catholic the Catholic system is given the heretical blanket gender affirmation in school boards. Our country is run by Marxist activists in the “Human Rights” tribunals and DEI officers of major organizations.

Anglican and Catholic education have constitutional protection in Canada. It’s in our DNA. So much has been lost already. If anything, we need a Restoration in Canada. The Canada of a decade ago was better than the Canada of today.

Be careful what you wish for. At least we have one publicly funded religious education system that’s constitutionally protected. The Anglicans gave theirs up in Canada. Half the provinces have given up the Catholic system. It backfired in Quebec, as the only means they now have to protect their culture is to police language and attempt to strip religious rights from Muslims. Canada is Marxist-nihilist enough and getting worse. I value an education that values virtues and the whole person. Tory tried to get elected as premier in Ontario on the promise of funding all religious schools but he lost the election.

Majority of country is religious, though atheism has grown. It’s under 30%, though I can’t remember if that number includes agnostic. If it does that’s changes everything, because some of the more religious people I know are agnostic. I feel that way sometimes even as a Catholic, because I know our human measure of God gets it wrong I think God is more than our limited depictions You mean places like Iran?

Absolutely. Canada was founded on unshakable Judeo-Christian principles and this is constitutionally enshrined. Our head of state is religious. God save the King!

America is a religious country. It’s constitutionally enshrined. In God We Trust. In my opinion, thank God for that. You want to be on God’s team when shit gets real.

Exactly. The Emergencies Act was an excuse for ineptitude, but what’s frightening is that incompetence is now grounds for use of the Emergencies Act. The public must hold governments in account to prevent ineptitude from reigning as a tyranny. Have we entered a period of inept tyrants?

For me it’s about policies rather than parties. All political parties have problems.

I don’t think people should be allowed to share private texts with media unless they are clear evidence of criminal intent. Even then, such information should have a high standard of justification for admissibility in court and the court of public opinion, as people can be manipulated to say things and much can be taken out of context. Organizations like the CBC and TorStar are doing more political smearing than ever before and it’s always left-biased. This is why people should be highly critical of attacks on character, because they can and do destroy people’s careers. The Star was all set to do an expose on John Tory, which he headed off by resigning. These are low, backstabbing types, much like Bragg in the indictment of Trump. They’ll do anything to further themselves and their pet causes.