A massive, two page article in the Globe and Mail of Jan. 8 concerns the website Rumble, founded in 2013 by a Toronto entrepreneur as a haven for those wishing to express themselves free of politically motivated censorship. Several “conservative” pundits have taken up residence there. The writer of this article, Joe Castaldo, makes it quite clear, however, that the contention of those on the Right that the mainstream media and our culture in general are radically biased to the Left is just another “conspiracy theory.” He cites various “authorities” in support of his thesis:
One study, published last year by researchers from N.Y. U., concluded the assertion that social-media companies suppress conservative viewpoints is unfounded.
Also: “The censorship claim is part of a historical pattern of right-wing and conservative parties and news outlets trying to gain political clout and create a common enemy for their viewers,” adds Julia DeCook, an assistant professor at Loyola University Chicago who studies extremist movements.
The testimony of these academics, Castaldo would have us believe, proves unequivocally that “conservatives” who rail against the abomination of “cancel culture” are either delusional or cynically trying to cash in on a false claim of victimization. Yet tons of evidence, including several scholarly books, shows that Western Academia has veered radically to the Left over the last 60 years. Even “progressives” such as Bill Maher, much to his credit, have begun to denounce the irrationality of the ideological sewage launched daily into the public domain by those who see themselves as our intellectual superiors and the saintly champions of what they have come to define as “social justice.”
The simpletons at CNN, MSNBC, the CBC and indeed pretty much every Canadian television network, are propagandists rather than newscasters. The subjects they ignore, the issues upon which they obsess, the words they choose and the tone of voice in which they deliver them, are all implicit with their own very obvious point of view. Castaldo’s contention that this is no more than another absurd “conspiracy theory” hatched by the Right and its hoards of mindless “populists” is but evidence that he too is consumed by bias. Sites such as Rumble, I would contend, rather than being hives of misinformation, which of course they might harbor, are the only places where certain valid though politically incorrect opinions have any chance of being honestly and openly discussed, such discussion being absolutely essential to our return to a Civil Society where Reason rather than childish “woke” drivel is our guiding light.