Free speech today is under assault from the Left everywhere and all the time. You already know about the federal government’s pervasive Censorship Industrial Complex, pressuring all the big social media companies to suppress what they deem “misinformation” about any subject important to the current dominant political narrative (Covid-19, climate change, etc.). And you already know about ex-President Trump getting indicted by both federal and Georgia prosecutors for saying the same things about the 2020 election that Al Gore said about the 2000 election and Hillary Clinton said about the 2016 election and Stacey Abrams said about the 2018 election.
But how about the Left using its widespread control of social institutions to silence dissent. Today, this is literally everywhere. Here are a couple of notable examples for today — both, as it happens, from outside the U.S.:
Alimonte, et al., paper in European Physical Journal Plus
If you wonder why the climate alarm narrative seems so completely to dominate public discussion (even though it is utter nonsense), then you need to understand that there is an orthodoxy enforcement police operating behind the scenes. Most of the time the operation of this orthodoxy enforcement mechanism is invisible to the general public. Climate skeptics can’t get jobs in academia, and go into other careers; when skeptics write papers, they get rejected, and are never heard from again. But every once in a while something happens to bring aspects of the orthodoxy enforcement mechanism momentarily into the open. That has recently occurred with respect to a paper published in a European scientific journal in early 2022.
In January 2022 the European science journal called European Physical Journal Plus (part of the Springer Nature collection of journals) published a paper by Gianluca Alimonte and colleagues with the title “A critical assessment of extreme events trends in times of global warming.” The paper is essentially a review of trends in various sorts of extreme weather events since the early 20th century, including hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts, and so forth. The bottom line from the article is that there are no noticeable trends in the frequency or severity of these extreme weather events during recent years. For example, the summary as to hurricanes is “To date, global observations do not show any significant trends in both the number and the energy accumulated by hurricanes.” Here is the graph as to numbers of hurricanes and tropical storms and accumulated energy of same:
Surely no trends are visible there. And here are the key concluding sentences from the abstract:
None of these response indicators show a clear positive trend of extreme events. In conclusion on the basis of observational data, the climate crisis that, according to many sources, we are experiencing today, is not evident yet.
That last observation seems to be the one that just could not be allowed. It appears that a group of orthodoxy enforcers from academia and journalism ganged up to go to Springer Nature to demand retraction of the Alimonte, et al. paper. There followed a lengthy back and forth, which ended with the paper being retracted on August 23, 2023. A whistleblower at Springer Nature leaked the back and forth to Roger Pielke, Jr., who has published two pieces about it on his Substack, the first on July 17, and the second on August 26. You can read those two lengthy pieces for all the details.
From the Pielke July 17 piece, the pile-on began about a year ago:
[E]ight months [after publication of Alimonte, et al.], following some discussion of the paper in the Australian media, The Guardian wrote an article severely criticizing the paper. The Guardian quoted four scientists critical of the paper: Greg Holland, Lisa Alexander, Steve Sherwood, and Michael Mann.
As an example of the nature of the criticisms, Pielke quotes the execrable Michael Mann, whose comments Pielke describes as “scathing and personal.” They are also notably non-substantive, appealing to consensus without disputing the accuracy of any of the data:
[This is] another example of scientists from totally unrelated fields coming in and naively applying inappropriate methods to data they don’t understand. Either the consensus of the world’s climate experts that climate change is causing a very clear increase in many types of weather extremes is wrong, or a couple of nuclear physics dudes in Italy are wrong.
As Pielke documents, there was no allegation of scientific fraud or misconduct of any sort. This was purely a case of Mann and his henchmen demanding a retraction over a matter of disagreement with the conclusion. Alimonte, et al. stood behind their work and declined to retract. And Springer then bowed to Mann’s bullying and retracted the article on August 23.
Meanwhile, go to the (now-retracted) Alimonte, et al., paper, and look at the graphs. It is obvious that there is no trend in extreme weather events. There is no getting around this. But it is not allowed to be said in “prestigious” publications like the Springer science journals.
Or, by the way, you can go to Joe D’Aleo’s excellent website, icecap.us, where there is a frequently updated section headed “Climate Alarmist Claim Fact Checks” with the latest data on trends in all extreme weather events.
Pielke mildly criticizes Alimonte, et al., for their “editorializing” about the lack of any climate crisis discernible in the data. Meanwhile, he notes that he did a Google search that turned up some 300,000 papers asserting the existence of a climate crisis. A few hundred billion dollars of government money can buy a lot of fake climate alarmism.
Jordan Peterson license to practice psychology in Ontario
On August 23 judges of something called the Ontario Divisional Court upheld a ruling of the College of Psychologists of Ontario, which had ordered Jordan Peterson to undergo what Peterson calls “social media retraining” to punish him for various tweets and a Joe Rogan podcast interview that the College found unacceptable. In a podcast on August 25, watchable at the Neo Neocon website here, Peterson goes through the tweets and statements that the College of Psychologists finds so unacceptable. Here are a couple discussed on the podcast:
- In a tweet on February 19, 2022, Peterson called Ottawa City Councillor Catherine McKenney, who uses “they/them” pronouns, an “appalling, self-righteous moralizing thing.”
- Speaking on a Joe Rogan podcast about air pollution and child deaths, Peterson said: “It’s just poor children, and the world has too many people on it anyways.”And here are few more from a piece in the Daily Mail:
- 2016: Slammed proposed Canadian legislation that would ban discrimination based on ‘gender identity or gender expression’, claiming it would threaten free speech
- 2017: Claimed that ‘the idea of white privilege is absolutely reprehensible’ because ‘most people have all sorts of privilege’
- 2018: Told British TV network Channel 4 that men need to ‘grow the hell up’ and ‘adopt responsibility’ while discussing the crisis of masculinity. Also claimed that the gender pay gap was not ‘only due to sex’
You can see how very nefarious this guy is. Clearly he must be silenced.
The punishment for Peterson is that he must undergo re-education until his re-educators are satisfied that he is sufficiently compliant.
The good news is that Peterson has the resources to continue the fight. Perhaps he will take it to the Supreme Court of Canada.
All of the complaints about Jordan Peterson came from individuals who did not know him personally, only read his tweets. No complaints came from any of his many patients. Not one. Yet they are taking away his license to practice psychiatry. This is an egregious example of absolute tyranny.
In the view of many/most leftists, hearing something they disagree with, harms them. That’s why they try to ban free speech whenever they can.
There has always been some suppression of free speech. But the trend to suppress free speech has become noticeably much worse in the last 20 years and is accelerating. For example, I used to have letters printed in multiple different papers pointing out the problems with climate alarmism. In the last three years, i.e. since covid appeared, it has become almost impossible to get my letters printed. I think that covid made things much worse. It seems that the media decided that any criticism of the handling of covid couldn’t be allowed and then extended this approach to all other topics.
Yes, it is noticeably tighter controlled today. I am personally now banned from commenting on the Daily Telegraph, a publication considered centre right in the political spectrum. Other blogs from political operators take comments but always place them in ‘moderation’ there they remain if they do not suck up to the preferred narrative of the establishment.
Even when a comment is on your own screen it is being shadow banned so no other user can see it.
One of the great freedoms maintained by the WUWT site is its open commenting stance. That is clearly one of the reasons so many subscribe and comment. Long may it continue.
RFK Jr. is being throttled to suppress his exposure of vaccine problems. “Gain of function” and “lab leak” discussions are basically taboo in the MSM.
As I recall that happened a few weeks ago in a congressional hearing on censorship. How clueless some people are.
Clueless? Therein lies the problem. Unless or until this stifling of word and deed personally bites them where they sit, they feel everything is just fine. As in “Not my problem”.
JFK is not being throttled, he is being given “bad publicity” by the Bolsheviks, which they hope will make him acceptable to the Deplorables. …and the way he’s using his family history as validation of his own worth is simply creepy.
The communists have openly declared their new strategy: “…choose suitable candidates from the Democrat party who can speak on conservative issues…”
Beware of Kennedy, Carlson, Ramaswamy… even that chick with the grand hair and serious family views…
JFK is dead. Are you confusing him with his nephew? Please don’t vote.
The ultimate of throttling he was.
Obama let the cat out of the bag. They want to restore the days when the narrative was unified, when their pals in the media presented only their spin on current events.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/16/obama-yearns-for-the-days-when-establishment-media-set-the-national-agenda/
Obama says we live in two different realities.
He’s right. He and the other radical leftists live in a false reality, and the rest of us live in the real world. Barack wants us to live in his reality. He’s unhappy that the Left no longer has a stranglehold on the news.
If free speech is in trouble in the US you can imagine what it’s like with no constitutional guarantees
Yes, we have the ‘Non-Crime Hate Incident’
https://www.faircop.org.uk/non-crime-hate-incidents-updated-guidance/
To which you can add the case of the lady who was arrested near an abortion facility (when it was closed) for silently praying. The police in England, it seems, now have the power to ask you what you are thinking.
Yes they do check your thinking…
this:
“… Finally, PC Gul offered his final words of advice, words that I will never forget as I was so stunned by them. He said, ‘You have to understand, sometimes in the womb, a female brain gets confused and pushes out the wrong body parts, and that is what transgender is. I replied, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me. Wrong body parts ? You have to know that is absolute bullshit. Is this really the official police line ?’ PC Gul said, ‘Yes, I have been on a course.’”
https://www.melaniephillips.com/need-check-thinking-english-police-officer/
I guess the police in the UK never took a basic biology class.
Thank you for my “Je***-*uck” for today!
I am saving this for posterity…
Another recent case reported in the Telegraph of a woman who was cautioned by the police and had her conduct noted, because she photographed an LGBT sign on which someone had pasted a sticker asserting that men should be excluded from womens’ facilities.
Here is the Mail’s account of it
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12473521/Retired-social-worker-quizzed-hate-crime-police-sticker-Stand-Trans-poster.html
No Catherine McKenney does not use those pronouns. Catherine McKenney imposes those pronouns on other people speaking of a third person.
The imposition, and the expectation that it will be enforced by others, is what is contemptible about the whole pronoun thing.
I think the pronoun nonsense is only in the anglosphere.
European languages are gendered
If they’re all like French then it’s completely illogical and arbitrary, a lorry is male and a car female. But the one I like best is that numbers are masculine and approximate numbers, about a dozen une dizaine, are feminine which always makes me think something sexist.
Italian – ex latin – has only male and female…
il tavolo (masc) table. la spesa (fem) shopping, la macchina (fem) a car etc
German has male, female and neuter. I hated doing German at school…
knife, fork, and spoon: Each a different gender…
It’s more common these days to eat soup with a knife. Especially in prison.
Dutch and Flemish have two genders, but it works differently, the two are
masculine or feminine (article is ‘de’)
neuter (article is ‘het’)
So, as in German, the word for female child is neuter, ‘das madchen’ in German or in Dutch ‘het meisje’. But in Dutch it would be ‘de man’ or ‘de vrouw’, there is no equivalent of ‘die’ and ‘der’.
Fowler, in the first edition of Modern English Usage, says that its an error to use the term ‘gender’ in any other than a grammatical context. He was probably mistaken, there are cases in English medieval and early modern usage where its used as a rough synonym for sex.
And of course you have Chaucer
‘…bathed every vein in swich licour
of which virtue engendered is the flower…’
But really, the concept of gender as referring in some way to non-biological sex is completely confused. As you can see if you ask a proponent of the 100+ gender persuasion whether there are 100+ gender confirming surgeries to match them all.
Then duck!
Obviously, many European languages will have to be cancelled.
https://babylonbee.com/news/california-bans-spanish-over-nouns-having-only-two-gender-options
The Babylon Bee has been overtaken by current events. It’s no longer satire but reportage.
Mama warned me about laughing at retards… This is their revenge?
PS: I will call you by any name you wish. Only you can tell me what name you prefer. I want to use your preferred name even if you are blunt to the point of rudeness when you tell me. Just don’t start telling me what I have to agree to say I think about you.
If you are not a ‘he’ or a ‘she’ you must be an ‘it’.
They don’t like that gender neutral term. All the more reason to use it.
I will not be bullied into denying reality. If a person is distressed hearing the truth about his or her physical reality, that saddens me. I don’t want to go out of my way to wound him or her further. I will avoid where possible saying the accurate pronouns by saying the person’s name or avoiding conversation altogether.
Quelgeek is right that each person should be allowed to choose his name—within reason. Non-offensive nicknames and legally-changed names should reasonably be expected to be used. In most jurisdictions you can’t legally change your name to something considered offensive. Even if you can, I won’t address you with a name like that, regardless of your preference. I’m not so sure about highly-gendered names like Missy or Butch replacing Mark or Betty. That crosses a line, too.
If you want me to refer to you with reality-denying names, you probably won’t enjoy any of my other conversation either. So it’s probably best we just don’t talk at all. As soon as you emphasize that the most important thing you have done with your life is to live a lie, I know that I am not interested.
Normally I never reply to replies but this deseves to be high-lighted and repeated. It needs to be understood by the individuals concerned, and even more it needs to be understood by their self-appointed champions (of whom I suspect there are very many more).
If my institution or state ever forces the use of preferred pronouns, mine are already selected: Whence / What / Whither
“If you are not a ‘he’ or a ‘she’ you must be an ‘it’.”
Or a she/he/it?
The only comment in those words I can find is in an exchange between Andrew Montford and Peterson on twitter where both gentlemen were clearly being facetious.
Which raises the problem that most of these thought ‘nazis’ are entirely devoid of any sense of humor.
Isn’t “too many people” a statement about over population something an awful lot of people agree with?
That was Petersen’s point. Many left leaning, kleptocarcy supported, campaigns have an unspoken requirement for massive population reduction. For example, green energy, elimination of fertilizer use, reduction of water use, massive areas protected from human use and so on.
‘Too many’ people is a value judgement.
I note that, about now – early September 2023 – the population of Tanzania is [roughly] equal to that of the U.K. – some 67-68 million each. The U.K. is increasing at about half-a-million a year – but Tanzania by about 2 million a year.
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If they believe that he meant that seriously, then they really don’t understand Jordan Petersen. Which defies logic since presumably they’re combing through everything he says trying to find reasons to be offended. They’d have to be dumber than a box of rocks not to get it.
Or they’re so dishonest that they pretend to take the comment seriously.
Or they’re such snowflakes that they recognize that it’s sarcasm targeted at them and are offended at anyone implying that being ‘concerned’ about overpopulation implies letting poor children die. And that’s just so un-Canadian 🇨🇦. (Of course they would be put down humanely with MAID).
After careful consideration, I think it’s that last case.
“Or they’re so dishonest that they pretend to take the comment seriously.”
That’s probably closer to the truth. The radical Left does that a lot.
“Which raises the problem that most of these thought ‘nazis’ are entirely devoid of any sense of humor.”
Absolutely true here in Wokeachusetts- despite the idea that the state is so sophisticated.
If you are firmly of the opinion that you are ‘sophisticated’ then you are most definitely not. Sophistication is an observation used by other people, it’s not something you bestow on yourself.
What I meant to say is that too many people think the state is sophisticated because it has Hah-vid and MIT and many other colleges. But I don’t think that. It’s a phony sophistication that has made it into Wokeachusetts. It’s a pseudo sophisticated. I’ve found out after being around for 73 years that many people who are not highly educated are very smart indeed with far more common sense than all these Hah-vid intellectuals.
Today, for the first time, I got an instant ai-generated ‘disrespectful comment’ warning on youtube for using the words ‘fat’ and ‘disgusting’ (in reference to a fat and disgusting person who was eating all day and weighed many hundred pounds).
It’s obvious where this is heading – anything that doesn’t support the ‘settled’ narratives or is deemed politically incorrect is going to be blocked on mainstream sites. We already get the ‘context’ warning telling us how man-made CO2-induced-climate-change is a fact on any video the bots don’t like.
The UK Daily Mail The comments below have not been moderated. Is clearly a lie
You could quote the lyrics of the US #1 hit by Oliver Anthony:
“I wish politicians would look out for miners
And not just minors on an island somewhere
Lord, we got folks in the street, ain’t got nothin’ to eat
And the obese milkin’ welfare
God, if you’re 5 foot 3 and you’re 300 pounds
Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds
Young men are puttin’ themselves six feet in the ground
‘Cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin’ them down”
Oliver Anthony – Rich Men North Of Richmond – YouTube
Won’t be long before the nutters get the song banned from everywhere. Still a great anthem for much of what is wrong in the West. As is Frank Turner’s outstanding Sons of Liberty. Not about right or left, about freedom:
Frank Turner – “Sons Of Liberty” – YouTube
Or if you prefer it live at Reading:
Frank Turner – Sons Of Liberty @ Reading 2010 – YouTube
Sadly Frank Turner has gone super-woke and I doubt he will play these songs live again
Don’t use them – they are not only harvesting your private life, they are subconsciously reframing your thoughts and words
I was reading the other day about a “fat activist”, who is trying to get doctors punished for trying to convince over weight people to lose weight.
He called such conversations “fat shunning”.
how many steven moshers are there in this world????
anyway: “”Courtois writes, “Communist regimes turned mass crime into a full-blown system of government.” That is to say, they were criminal enterprises by their very nature, thuggish assemblages of men who regularly terrorized the populations under their control to keep them fearful and compliant.
Opinion piece: here
Surely ‘they’ and ‘them’ are plurals and so referring to one person as they or them is nonsense.
Ordinary bog standard heterosexuals are attempting to spice up their lives up by calling themselves queer etc
Fundamentally, it’s narcissistic.
Should be “thou” methinks
Should be “thou” methinks. Second person singular in English.
Stupid “commenting too fast” problem prevents an edit.
“Thee” and “thou” are second person singular, subject and object in old English.
“Ye” and “you” are second person plural, subject and object in old English.
(The KJV preserves that distinction which is in the Greek and Hebrew.)
I don’t mess around with the AI things out there.
Maybe one of you that do should ask it if it’s a “thee” or a “ye”? 😎
The idiots are going to find out that when the tables turn, they aren’t going to think censorship is the cute little flex they do right now.
The pendulum swings, and more often as not with a rather nasty backhand.
That is a bald face lie!!!!!!!
Al Gore conceded to George W. Bush once the votes in Florida were counted and confirmed by order of the Supreme Court. He has never claimed that he really won the 2000 election. Ditto with Hillary Clinton. Even the leading GOP candidates for the GOP nomination, except Trump of course, all concede that Trump did not win in 2020/.
Trump stated continuously, both before, during and after the 2020 election that he had won, that the vote against him was rigged, and he took numerous specific actions to attempt to overturn the election. He still claims that today, despite every court in the land up through and including SCOTUS says otherwise. He undertook dozens of efforts to specifically overturn the actual election results, including pressuring his Vice President into launching an unConstitutional coup. Anything else to the contrary is nothing but abject boneheaded stupid denialism.
Stopped reading after that piece of crap, which has zero business whatsoever being published at WUWT, a purportedly science based website.
Why doe WUWT publish such crapola? You demean yourselves and make yourselves look like utterly deranged fools.
I expect to get about 500 or 1,000 downvotes for confronting the commenters here with the truth that they refuse to accept. So be it. The rest of the country accepts the democratic results of 2020. Enjoy your stay in the political wilderness.
Al Gore and his acolytes continue to refer to the 2000 election as stolen, and Bush as a selected president not an elected president. I literally have this statement in a law school textbook written and published by these acolytes. Hillary Clinton continues to this day to claim that she really won the 2016 election. Hillary also tried to get electors in various states to change their votes and some did. Just not enough to give her the election. Stacy Abrams also holds that she won the 2018 election in Georgia. These last two continue to make these claims today on a regular basis. You should check your facts. There are plenty of You Tube videos available on Clinton and Abrams.
Further, Stacy Abrams has never conceded that gubernatorial election.
But that wasn’t in Georgia…oh wait,
Never mind
But that was decades ago…oh wait,
Never mind
But that wasn’t Trump
Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Joey Biden had 51 supposed intelligence experts sign a letter that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian made…it was Hunter Biden made. This lie affected the vote. Demrats counted fraudulent mail in votes. Demrats have a history of stealing elections…the election of JFK was due to fraud in Texas and Illinois…….LBJ was as big a crook as Joey Biden. Communists and demrats believe the end justifies the means….just win baby!
“Ditto with Hillary Clinton.”
Ridiculous. Hillary Clinton has continuously claimed Trump is an illegitimate president.
“Even the leading GOP candidates for the GOP nomination, except Trump of course, all concede that Trump did not win in 2020/.”
All they concede is they can’t prove election fraud.
“Trump stated continuously, both before, during and after the 2020 election that he had won, that the vote against him was rigged, and he took numerous specific actions to attempt to overturn the election.”
All of which are legal under out system of government.
“He still claims that today, despite every court in the land up through and including SCOTUS says otherwise.”
The courts don’t say otherwise. Most of them never even addressed the issues.
“He undertook dozens of efforts to specifically overturn the actual election results, including pressuring his Vice President into launching an unConstitutional coup. Anything else to the contrary is nothing but abject boneheaded stupid denialism.”
Trump did nothing unconstitutional He had a legal right to take all the actions he took. Trump didn’t pressure Pence to do anything illegal. Trump had legal advisors telling him he was on the correct constitutional course. Trump had several hundred State legislators requesting that the electors be returned to their respective States so the legislators of those States could review the votes and see if there were illegalities that might require a revote. None of that is illegal. Pence did not want to get in the middle of all that controversy, and he had legal advisors telling him a different story, and he refused to send the votes back to the States for a do over. You should study the history of American elections. This is not the first time such an election controversy has happened.
“Stopped reading after that piece of crap, which has zero business whatsoever being published at WUWT, a purportedly science based website.”
WUWT publishes what is intersting to the owners of WUWT.
“Why does WUWT publish such crapola? You demean yourselves and make yourselves look like utterly deranged fools.”
Well, somebody looks like an utter deranged fool, but it’s not WUWT. WUWT is not afflicted with TDS.
“The rest of the country accepts the democratic results of 2020. Enjoy your stay in the political wilderness.”
You speak for the rest of the country, do you? No, you just speak for yourself.
The courts dismissed without any investigating, usually saying something to effect that Trump’s campaign had no legal standing in that particular court.
Yes, the Courts were just like Vice President Pence, they didn’t want to get involved in the controversy.
They are all afraid of what the Leftwing Media would say about them if they did become involved. That’s why they are running.
The Leftwing Media is the most dangerous organization in the nation when it comes to threatening our personal freedoms. We can’t govern ourselves properly when all we are fed is leftwing lies. And that’s all we get out of 99 percent of the Media: A pack of lies.
“No, you just speak for yourself.”
Let me modify that statement a little.
You probably do speak for a lot of people, but you are implying that you speak for the majority, and I see no evidence for that.
We’ll find out in this next election just how many people you are speaking for.
“Ditto with Hillary Clinton.”
Of course she did get more total votes!
Unfortunately Hillary appears to have slept through her high school civics class on the Electoral College.
The presidential election in the US involving the Electoral College is a bit like the “World” Series of baseball.
Consider the result of the 1960 series with the Pittsburgh Pirates and the NY Yankees. The Yankees scored 55 runs. The Pirates scored 27.
The Pirates won the World Series.
It was Hitlery who came up with the Russian lies about Trump….the demrat party is a criminal organization that depends on dumb uninformed people and criminal acts to gain power. Joey Biden has such contempt for the nation that he brags about taking bribes.
I happen to dislike ALL politicians.
Oh dear Duane, I think you protest too much.
I’m a Brit but I remember the rigmarole around the Gore Bush vote in Florida, was it 30 odd days before the president was declared, recounts, Supreme Court decisions.
And as for Hillary, have you forgotten Russia, Russia, Russia and the blight on Trump’s presidency they perpretated. All these elections have fraudulent votes and counting, it’s just a question of how many and if it changes the outcome. In 2020 there might have been 5m or more fraudulent votes, that’s a problem that needs fixing.
Nov 24th 2000.
“Lawyers for Democrat Al Gore said Thursday the Vice President will contest the close Presidential Election results in at least one Florida county and that he will not concede the election, even after the final state vote tally is certified on Sunday.”
I remember it as well, a real shame that Duane doesn’t.
I can’t find any reference easily since search engines only show the recent stuff (and I don’t have the time to dig), but there were some contested elections early in US history that were on par with or even beyond our recent ones as far as what was done to contest them.
Of course, the same goes for a lot of things in our history. Nobody knows any, so nobody has any perspective anymore.
It really is sad how some people actually believe that their opinions must be fact.
Your lies about Trump are many and oft repeated, but I’m sure that one of these days you will come to your senses.
Ditto with Hillary Clinton?
I guess “stolen” doesn’t mean what you want it to mean.
I heard this elsewhere: “They should police streets, not tweets.”
I would like to know the context of the “poor children” quote. I couldn’t find any in the link that accompanies the quote.
I find the quote offensive, but unlike leftists, I don’t believe people have a right to “not be offended”.
Is the quote actually Peterson’s or was he characterizing statements from others?
See Rich Davis reply to Chris Hanley at 3:34 am
If you listen long at all to Dr. Peterson, you will know that he has great compassion on children and the poor and that, when he says such things regarding killing children and the poor don’t matter, it is clear that he is representing the openly held position and logical conclusion of post-modern leftists, the WEF, and their institutional henchmen in politics, the “media,” professional societies and “the science” (so-called).
I believe tyhe man was referencing Cameltoe Harrasmant or suchlike, who recently said something along the lines of “…if we all stop living like civilised people now, there will be more air for the children to breathe…”.
I cannot recall the exact words, but translated to English, the whole thing comes out as: “If we kill half the world, there will be more air for OUR children.”
In communist countries, schools train children to report any instance in which the parents said something the state disagrees with.
In the US, there are school districts that have already started asking children about conversations they have had with their parents.
I would pay a lot of money to watch the apparatchiks try to retrain Peterson. He would leave them in smoking ruins.
Yesss! They should live stream his reorientation, so we can all see what happens to liars!
The modern equivalent of public stoning?
I mean, it’s not like anybody is gonna get up and try help the poor sod…just like the good old days.