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“You can have as much freedom as your prepared to accept responsibility for.”
David Hingst accused his boss of repeatedly passing wind in his office.
If your sympathy for a good cause has to meet a “compelled speech” standard to be considered sincere, then who is the more admirable character? Bullying those who eschew conforming symbols thus provokes contempt for the bullies and respect for the genuine sincerity of the non-conformist.
The trend started with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, and was eventually replicated by several female newscasters and policewomen while spreading in the general community as a movement under the name “headscarf for harmony.”
Shapiro diagnoses this distress as a crisis of meaning. He observes that our civilization is collapsing “into an old-age tribalism, individualistic hedonism, and moral subjectivism.”
According to the Globe and Mail, the Trudeau government’s plan to take away your guns has run into one major roadblock. The Canadian people don’t want any more gun restrictions.
What the secretly recorded video reveals is that Jefferies is a hypocrite who mocked Islam himself and even drew a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed in an attempt to egg Yemeni on.
Bending to the will of leftist ideologues is not only an assault on our nation’s beloved democracy but is also a rejection of one simple fact—that we cannot hold views critical of historical figures outside of the context, institutions, and morals of their time.
The fact that the mask depicting the President of the United States could spark such aggression from either political side is telling of the times we live in today.
Using social pressure to stigmatize is a hallmark of witch hunts throughout history, and this tactic hides in plain sight on social media. But one wonders what the point is of declaring a publication dedicated to free speech and open discourse off limits?
Surely, if all of this was done to court the racist vote, Scheer has blown his chances by now hasn’t he?
Patreon famously removed a YouTube user, seemingly for political reasons, without explanation. Eventually they claimed that MasterCard had forced them to remove the account. In the age of online creators, that is professional murder.
Predictably columnists and journalists across the world are using the New Zealand tragedy as an opportunity to advocate for measures which will have the inevitable consequences of stripping people of their fundamental freedoms.
With bitter divisions plaguing Western democracies, it is increasingly difficult to identify the issues on which both sides agree.
In comedy, “bombing” is when your jokes don’t land, and the crowd stares stone faced at whatever jokes you’re saying. The show I was at this night could probably be described as less of a comedy show, and more of a bomb-factory.