A couple of days ago Canada’s Prime Minister tweeted: “Members of Parliament unanimously condemned the anti-semitism, Islamophobia, anti-Black racism, homophobia and transphobia that we’ve seen on display in Ottawa over the past number of days. Together let’s keep working to keep Canada more inclusive.”
I have watched dozens of videos of tens of thousands of Canadians including people of color, children in tow, smiling, cheering, singing O Canada, shoveling Ottawa’s snow covered sidewalks, picking up debris and giving food not only to the truckers but the homeless. And yes I have also seen evidence of those few individuals who just might fit Trudeau’s description, though, as I stated in a previous blog, his and the media’s interpretation of their actions has been appallingly biased…..i.e……The man carrying both a Nazi flag and sign saying Fuck Trudeau could very well have been accusing our Prime Minister of being a Nazi rather than declaring his own political status. But of course when you live in a fantasy world rife with monsters born of an ideological dementia, an honest, rational appraisal of the facts is hardly likely to be forthcoming.
Trudeau’s twitter screed stereotyped hundreds of thousands of people based on the highly ambiguous actions of a few. It was utterly devoid of both intellectual and moral integrity. I am not suggesting governments should simply cancel all Covid related restrictions but rather that dialogue with those of the truckers’ viewpoint might yield some very safe and pragmatic solutions to mandates that do seem arbitrary if not useless. But that’s not the way of the contemporary Left which, generally devoid of rational/empirical evidence in support of its agenda, habitually, mindlessly, resorts to its lexicon of insulting cliched epithets. Trudeau included most of them in his little rant, though he oddly left out the ever popular “White supremacist.” His is the same stratagem, of course, used south of the border by Biden, Pelosi, Kamala, A.O.C., etc., for whom any “conservative” opinion is inevitably linked to racism, sexism, homophobia, blah, blah, blah. It is the stratagem, sadly, that has made meaningful political dialogue here in the West more or less impossible.
Were I a “progressive” given to this tactic, I can’t imagine looking in the mirror without realizing that most of what I say is bullshit. But those on the Left, it would seem, have a far greater tolerance for such than those of us who feel compelled to root our opinions in simple common sense.