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Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t James Delingpole / Breitbart – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau just gave a speech in New York about the need to respect and listen to others and bring everyone together, unless those others are climate “deniers” or supporters of female genital mutilation.
Trudeau uses NYU graduation speech to criticize growth in identity politics
Trudeau uses NYU graduation speech to criticize growth in identity politics
‘The leadership we need most today, and in the years to come, is leadership that brings people together’
Mia Rabson · The Canadian Press ·
Posted: May 16, 2018 8:06 PM ET
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s first order of business after descending on Donald Trump’s hometown Wednesday was to enlist thousands of newly minted American university graduates in the fight against a rising tide of intolerance and nationalism around the world.
Officials had billed Trudeau’s three-day trip to New York and Boston as focused on trade and the economic relationship between Canada and the U.S., with looming NAFTA deadlines as a backdrop.
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Respect people who don’t look or think like you do, Trudeau said. Engage those with whom you may not agree. And take up a leadership role against the aggressive nationalism and identity politics that are making the world a far more complex place to live.
“The leadership we need most today, and in the years to come, is leadership that brings people together,” he said, clad in a graduation gown of his own after receiving an honorary degree — the first world leader to get one from NYU while in office.
“That brings diversity to a common cause. This is the antithesis of the polarization, the aggressive nationalism, the identity politics that have grown so common of late.”
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Seeking out people with different viewpoints and respecting those who hold different political opinions does not mean those perspectives all have merit, he noted.
He mentioned advocates of female genital mutilation in the same breath as deniers of climate change — people who hold viewpoints that will never be valid, no matter how long they have been expressing those views or how loudly they do so.
He urged graduates to do more than just tolerate other points of view, but to respect and hear what others say in service of a better understanding the world, rather than simply striving to win an argument.
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Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-nyu-speech-intolerance-1.4666476
What a brilliant summation of Liberal thinking on climate science. Listen to and respect the scientific views of others, unless those others express views which contradict your prejudices, in which case you are free to compare those others to misogynist child abusers.
Trudeau’s full speech:
Update (EW): Reference to FGM and Climate “Denial” around 24:10 in the video, if you don’t want to watch the entire speech
Let’s be more specific:
Climate denial is like a Holocaust denier who advocates female genital mutilation in young trans-sexuals-of color from a foreign country who believe in God. … Oh, I almost forgot, … /sarc)
That is over the line. Did he apologize yet?
Trudeau claims budgets balance themselves . He promised an annual deficit of $ 10 billion of new debt
that has already ballooned to over $18 billion . What he is doing is child abuse .
Can’t argue with his point. Some things are just not true, or right, so no point in supporting them. But you should try to understand the views of others.
The only reason that Trudeau and his Liberal government support the climate change theory is to justify imposing a carbon tax on Canadians. They know full well that in order to meet their Paris climate agreement targets they’d have to close down about half of Canada’s oil&gas, transportation, agriculture and waste disposal sectors. Such a move would not only wreck the economy but result in reducing Canada’s emissions from a mere 1.6% of the global total to 1.12%. Regardless, He’s not going to pass up a chance to generate revenue from taxpayers under the guise of helping to save the planet. So whatever he says the whole issue has to be taken not with just a grain of salt, but a heaping tablespoon.
Boy, am I glad you added that.
I am curious as to where in the ‘Western’ world Mr Trudeau thinks he has seen people arguing strongly for female genital mutilation. I dunno, I’m not privy to the discussions of the Canadian government cabinet.
What he says is certainly one of the worst things I have yet heard a global-warming politician say in this specific debate when attempting to soil critics of his stance. What is more disappointing still is that the audience seemed to cheer more and applaud louder when he mentioned anthropogenic climate change than they did when he mentioned female genital mutilation, as he was disgracefully conflating the two. Shameful. I would genuinely like to be convinced by other listeners that I heard wrong.
Turdeau cares only for virtue-signalling. Turdeau has a mental age of somewhere in the early teens. Turdeau is a dressing-up village idiot’s goto simpleton. Turdeau is an international laughing stock – even amongst insane globalists. I know people who actually voted for that. It simply beggars belief.
Justin Trudeau had better watch his back if he’s going to ridicule the Clintons on their pro-genital-mutilation beliefs. Chelsea recently claimed that “genital cutting” has many health benefits. She probably learned that from her mother and her mother’s BFF. Here is her tweet from April 26, 2017:
Chelsea Clinton @ClintonChelsea
Genital mutilation is a culturally loaded, racist term. The correct term is genital cutting, and has many health benefits.
#ImWithMuslims
— Chelsea Clinton
Faκe, of course.
It appears that you’re correct. I never thought to check it against Snopes. (I guess you just can’t trust everything you read on Twitter or Facebook.) But who has the time to fact check everything they read, other than Nick?
The funny thing is, I tried to find out if Muslims in general agree with female circumcision, but gave up when I found contradictory statements all over the place. Here are just two:
“[Female genital mutilation] is not required by Islam—indeed, Muslim scholars have declared it unIslamic… Senior Muslim religious authorities appear to agree that FGM is not required by Islam or is prohibited by it.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_on_female_genital_mutilation
“Circumcision is not an inherited custom as some people claim, rather it is prescribed in Islam and the scholars are unanimously agreed that it is prescribed. Not a single Muslim scholar – as far as we know – has said that circumcision is not prescribed. Their evidence is to be found in the saheeh ahaadeeth of the Prophet… This hadeeth includes circumcision of both males and females.”
https://islamqa.info/en/60314
Canada’s Prime Minister is a virtue signaler who will sign off on a new NAFTA as long as it’s gender neutral
and gets the USA to by pass Congress again to sign the Paris pledge .
This California north crème puff will be gone next election . Back to snow board instructing .
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/05/17/canadian-pm-compares-climate-denial-to-supporting-female-genital-mutilation/
and finds he prefers genital mutilation!
Don’t worry folks, Male Genital Mutilation, also known as circumcision, is an accepted practice in many cultures.
I believe a deeper cut is now getting to be a growing part of diversity
Hardly the same thing.
Our western culture abhors genital mutilation, unless you want to change your gender. Then a chopadictomy or an add-a-dick-to-me procedure is perfectly acceptable. In some places, the government will even pay for you to severely mutilate your genitals by chopping them off or completely reconstructing them. But then western cultures are civilized, so that kind of genital mutilation is perfectly acceptable. Removing a bit of foreskin; however, is unacceptable. If you don’t know which forms of genital mutilation are politically correct and which are not, you are in danger of having people like Justin Trudeau call you an uncivilized bigot.
Louis
I think FGM is so unacceptable because it’s done without anaesthetic, on non consenting participants, more often than not in unhygienic conditions.
I’m not sure where that leaves removal of a male child’s foreskin in the scheme of things. I don’t know much about it, but I understand it’s conducted, usually, on a non consenting child participant, without anaesthetic.
Chopadictomy or an add-a-dick-to-me procedures are usually conducted on adults, with their full consent, indeed, elective participation.
Personally, I consider the mutilation of any non consenting participant, child or otherwise, abhorrent.
The truth is the reason Trudeau could be re-elected is because there is no serious opposition .
The train wreck Trudeau is leaving behind will eventually be just to big to ignore although the CBC
will do their best . Keep funding the CBC and Trudeau could stick around for years .
How is this idiot in office?
“…anthropogenic climate change is real, no matter how much some folks want to deny it”
At least he got the climate change lie right this time. I most certainly DO deny anthropogenic climate change. Our puny contribution to atmospheric CO2 is not the climate control knob. And a minor change in average temperatures does not equate to climate change.
I forgot to mention the obvious: he will never have a conversation with people he considers deniers because he just equated our opinion with FGM and thus, he considers it just as wrong as FGM.
https://youtu.be/YgGvd1UPZ88
I love this film (For those who don’t know: being there ). And the short novel by J. Kosinsky, the film being as faithfoul as possible to the novel.
So Prime Minister Trudeau SAID:
“Respect people who don’t look or think like you do.”
He urged graduates to do more than just tolerate other points of view, but to respect and hear what others say in service of a better understanding the world, rather than simply striving to win an argument.
This is a classic case of do what I say, not what I do.
This is the man who leads a government that has told voluntary organisations that they must support the Canadian Government’s pro-abortion policy – OR ELSE. Or else they won’t be getting money from the Federal government.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/a-quick-list-of-justin-trudeaus-tyrannical-acts-against-life-family-and-chr
I find that respect and tolerance are a one-way street with these leftists. You are to respect and tolerate their points of view or they will label you a bigot. However, they have absolutely no desire to reciprocate and show you respect and tolerance if you do not belong to one of their preferred groups or your thinking differs from theirs in the slightest.
Trudeau got all soapy talking about his deceased father and claiming he learned to take the high road .
He must have meant stoned .
Kenney is absolutely right but Mr. Dress up is a hit with the chicks and that’s enough .
…and probably the explanation is that he simply does not have a clue what he is talking about when mentioning ‘climate change’.
I believe he does not even know nor understand what skeptics say, does not understand that the warming from CO2 is so trivial it could probably not even be measured.
I like how Claes Johnson makes the distinction between skeptics and deniers:
http://claesjohnson.blogspot.co.at/2012/03/can-greenhouse-effect-be-detected.html
“ Alarmists: There is a greenhouse effect and it threatens to overheat the globe.
Skeptics: There is a greenhouse effect, but it is so small that it cannot be detected.
Deniers: As long as no greenhouse effect has been identified, one can act as if there is no greenhouse effect.”
I understand that radiation thermodynamics would put the effect at 1°C per doubling, but the atmosphere has much more then radiation. Those same ‘scientists’ have not yet been able to properly model the lapse rate in the atmosphere, not to speak of proper thermodynamics…
CO2 doubling? We will not be at 800 ppm before 2200 or maybe never as our plants absorb more and more CO2 with higher efficiency.
Explain this to a moron who was spoon fed liberal global warming theories and who has no capacity or intention to listen to arguments.
It is enough that ’97 percent of scientists say so’ (what is not true, but is another of the many global warming lies repeated ad nauseam).
He does not know nor understand that CO2 is good for plants. It is an observable fact becoming more and more prevalent in the world, a truly inconvenient truth.
I like nature and use and used to walk often through mostly european forests. I saw and see the differences between 50-40-30 years ago, 20 years ago and now. Oh boy, the change in the density of leaves is impressing. It is there, visible.
I would not have thought that I would be able to spot the difference in my lifetime, but one has to look the other way not to see it.
Even the BBC had to admit it:
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36130346
So again a politician says what he is told to say. Bashing deniers is always good isn’t it?
Personally I don’t think wiping out FGM will have any more effect on changing the global climate than what’s been dished up by our movers and shakers so far but I surmise it’s a case of any port in a storm there Trudes baby. I certainly can’t criticise this new ‘do no harm’ approach to changing the climate and I’m sure many here can come up with equally innocuous tips and suggestions to help out.
This is how the classic marxist indoctrinated “wiberwal” behaves. Gush! gush! embrace all, everyone is wonderful, we love multiculturalism and hate the colour of our own skin and that dangley collection of objects between our legs and we detest the twisted version of our history which we invented but believe to be an absolute truth. We pretend to ignore that the theory of multiculturalism has no foundation as a practice and has been found to fail in practice everywhere it has been tried but we are achieving chaos so “more please”. We embrace everyone but if we do not agree with your point of view we revert to zealot speak!
To wipe out female genital mutilation he will have to take his and the wimin and the Left’s favourite murderous religion on head to head. Do you think this lily livered pretty boy has the balls to do that, no me neither….so virtue signal yourself away into oblivion pretty boy and do not dare ruin Canada anymore than you already have!
That’s funny because a lot of extreme liberals have become uncomfortable speaking out against FGM since it’s “culturally insensitive”, or something.
It is culturally insensitive to demean female genital mutilation, surely Justin should know that.