One of the main priorities of the contemporary Left is its staunch support of Women’s Rights. While I find its demands for statistical parity in various realms utterly absurd in that they simply ignore the verifiable differences between Men and Women, I am 100% behind the eradication of anything that arbitrarily limits females in their search for self-fulfillment. It is Freedom pure and simple rather than statistical parity that ought to be the goal of every sensible Feminist.
Islam, historically, unequivocally, has treated Women as little more than the possessions of Men. While the typical Leftist zealot would immediately counter that they were treated no better throughout the history of Christianity, this is a gross perversion of the truth. Yes, millions of truly progressive Muslim women have achieved some degree of liberation, but the Pew Research Center has found that millions more across the planet continue to live as mere slaves. Highlighting their plight has become the life’s work of the amazing Ayaan Hirsi Ali who, born to a devout Somali Muslim family, had the courage to escape and now lives as a free woman in the West. She is truly one of the world’s foremost Feminists. Yet strangely, significantly, she has not been duly celebrated by the Left because doing so might be seen as an endorsement of hate speech. Were any Western democracy to tolerate honor killings, genital mutilations, forced marriages, etc., the furor on the Left would be deafening, yet as Ali’s targets are non-Whites, she is greeted with hypocritical indifference if not outright hostility.
And how absurd is it that individuals born Male who now identify as Women are being allowed to jeopardize the very future of female athletes in certain competitions because the Left’s simplistic ethos forbids it from criticizing any “oppressed” minority, Transgenders belonging to that hallowed category?
The same double standard was evident when Trudeau invoked the presence of foreign funds from White supremacists [i.e., Trump supporters] as one of his reasons for using the Emergencies Act to disperse the Freedom Convoy. It turns out that approximately 90% of the convoy’s finances came from Canadian sources. But foreign funding is not, apparently, a problem for the Liberals when channeled into causes they support, even when they entail frequent violations of Canadian law with dire repercussions for the country’s economy. Feb. 18 saw the latest violent attack on an energy project, the Coastal Gas Link Pipeline in northern B.C.. Such attacks have been going on for decades now, financed to a large extent by foreign environmental groups such as the Tides Foundation. As Barbara Kay points out in the Post on Feb.19, approximately 1.3 billion dollars of foreign funds found their way into Canada between 2003 and 2019 in support of groups who were literally committed to destroying the economies of our Western provinces. But while incidents such as that of Feb. 10 invariably garner token condemnations from our Liberal government, it has neither denounced the foreign money supporting them nor has it frozen any bank accounts whatsoever, this in stark contrast to its hysterically overwrought condemnation of the trucker convoy whose thousands of participants committed not a single act of violence.
As reported by True North on May 16, just under 30 churches were torched in Canada last year by Indigenous protesters and their supporters in response to the discovery near various former Residential Schools of several burial grounds whose contents have yet to be fully identified. I repeat for the 50th time, no one is trying to whitewash Canada’s treatment of the Indigenous. But do past injustices entitle anyone in a supposedly civilized Democracy to break the law with impunity? Last week Conservative M.P. David Lloyd asked officials at CSIS [Canadian Security Intelligence Service] if any investigations were underway in pursuit of the arsonists in question, not one of whom has been arrested! The answer was NO. Indeed the CSIS report on 2021 did not see the multiple attacks on Catholic churches as even worthy of mention! Imagine the unending torrent of outrage had hordes of “White Supremacists” attempted to burn down 30 Muslim mosques in 2021!
To the relentlessly hypocritical Left, the Rule of Law is only binding when violated by those of a “conservative” agenda. In the States, the Biden government has actively encouraged disrespect for the protocols of legal immigration at the Mexican border. The result has been an unruly influx of dangerous criminals, lethal drugs and thousands of Covid infected people surreptitiously dispatched throughout the country. While the chaos that has ensued in municipalities unable to cope with the situation has been duly reported on “conservative” websites, it has been largely ignored by the mainstream press for which, once again, the Law only seems to matter when being violated by “White Supremacists.” It is a double standard which has come to dominate not only our Western Culture but its institutions. Hence the “plea deal” of a 6 to 7 year prison sentence offered by the U.S. Judiciary this past April to Richard Barnett, the Jan 6 “insurrectionist” who had the audacity to sit with his feet perched disdainfully on Nancy Pelosi’s desk. I understand he needs to pay for his transgression but he is 61 years old and might very well die in prison for committing no act of violence whatsoever. Yet the ludicrous lie that he and his confederates were seeking to overthrow the U.S. government continues to be exploited by the political Left which at the same time “compassionately” endorses the release of violent, recidivist criminals back on to America’s streets simply because they belong to some class designated to be “underprivileged.”
In the article cited in my last blog, Peter MacKinnon asks: “Why do supporters of populism believe themselves to be sidelined and ignored?” But while he subsequently indicts our Universities for harboring “intellectuals” who aggressively impugn Enlightenment Rationalism, he refuses to admit that the Inclusiveness which he identifies as the basis of all true Liberal Democracies is itself a betrayal of Enlightenment Values. His disingenuousness is typical of the pervasive double-speak we have been discussing, which is itself the reason that “populists,” who are by and large people of simple common sense, feel both “sidelined and ignored” in the “progressive” West. They see people viciously skewered by the mainstream media for using the wrong pronoun in addressing a transgender, while those responsible for the disgusting crime rates in cities such as Chicago and Los Angeles go relatively unscathed, and they wonder what the hell is going on!