Jordan Peterson:
The awe-inspiring conservative counter-offensive against woke nonsense
From Pierre Poilievre to Danielle Smith, Canadian conservatives are finally pushing back against the snakes
Author of the article: Jordan Peterson
Published Feb 29, 2024
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. A new poll suggests support for the Conservatives and Pierre Poilievre is still trending upward. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
I have worked with people of many political stripes now in many different countries in Europe, Southeast Asia, the U.K., the U.S. and Canada. This has provided me with the luxury of accurate comparative judgement and comparison.
Something is brewing in Canada — something of deeper than mere national significance. It’s a veritable sign of the times. Just as our nation was and so unfortunately on the cutting edge of the moralizing woke globalist eco-utopian nonsense promulgated oh-so-charismatically by the beautiful Justin Trudeau, so are we leading the charge of counter-offensive.- Former prime minister Brian Mulroney dead at 84
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To put it succinctly: Canadian conservatives are growing a spine. Or a pair. Pick your metaphor.
When I first started speaking with the leaders of the conservative movement in Canada — something that happened in earnest about eight years ago, when I rose to some degree of political notoriety — I was struck by the degree to which the progressive mob had managed its task of radical demoralization. Conservatives, who tend to be conscientious, orderly, dutiful and industrious by temperament are also in consequence of that proclivity easily led to feel guilty. The woke narcissists who on the other hand make up the progressive left are characterized by an absolute lack of such conscience, but are expert at exploiting its presence in others.
What are the allegations typically levelled at conservatives — and even, increasingly, at classical liberals? “You’re racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic, ageist, ableist, privileged, colonialist, exploitative.” For the bloody-minded left, life is a search for victimizer, to serve as target, and victim, to “identify with” — and for almost entirely self-serving purposes. And God help you if you are placed in the former category (are you listening, my Jewish friends?).
It’s a constant refrain, and the borders and rules shift constantly, because the point isn’t to improve the life of the so-called marginalized, but to gain the upper hand morally with no effort or sacrifice. And, if the lives of others can be ruined by unjustified and all-too-often anonymous or mob-inspired denunciation, so much the better. So say the bitter, as they forever have.
The accusing mob exploits the fact that in a civil society, unwarranted allegations are frowned upon. This has created the place of public trust upon which the stability, prosperity and safety of a polity truly depend, while simultaneously making it so that those daring to bring forth an allegation are given duly serious attention. However — and there is always a however — this enables the psychopathic.
I saw this happen at the University of Toronto, as it has at all those once-great institutions, where I once served as professor. The administration and faculty at such places bent over backward to address even the smallest complaint, on the grounds that everyone deserved to have their concerns addressed. That is all well and good, when the complainants are playing a straight game, but absolutely counterproductive, when the Machiavellian, psychopathic, narcissistic and sadistic Dark Tetrad types come crawling out of the woodwork, as they did then and most definitely and dangerously are now. |
