We need to be able identify thought terminating cliches and deal with them appropriately. We need to encourage not suppress speech in society.
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Dead Wild Roses: No Apology – Riley Gaines – DARVO in action.
The world is a little more topsy-turvey down in San Francisco.
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: The continuing relevance of George Galloway
Over the years I’ve recorded many events that Peace Alliance Winnipeg (PAW) has organized and/or co-sponsored. I’ve begun to put copies of these on the Peace Alliance Winnipeg YouTube Channel, which I encourage you to visit and to share. Back in 2010, PAW hosted a huge public meeting with British
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Standing on Principle – Excerpt from Infidel753
Free speech isn’t a tricky concept. It just needs to be applied universally and especially to the opinions and words of people you disagree with. Take some time and read the whole essay, it is worth your time. “Another meme popular with the enemy is “calling bigotry an opinion is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Into Wokism’s Raging Maw: Frances Widdowson at the University of Lethbridge – C2C Journal
We must guard against this sort of degenerate mob justice. See the entire article here. “When talking to people about the state of universities in Canada, many deny the negative impact of “woke-ism.” My current “lived experience” in a province with a reputation for supporting free speech, however, indicates otherwise.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Free Speech Is Foundational to Canadian Society
Free speech is a large part of the basis of our democratic society. The issue is popping up much more frequently now in Canadian Society as it would seem that certain opinions have been deemed ‘untouchable’ and thus must be avoided or cancelled within the public sphere. What I don’t
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: The Benefits of Being a Nobody on Twitter (& free speech)
Following 193 accounts and with 329 followers I am a relative nobody on Twitter. By controlling who I follow and who I block I can protect myself from the worst of Twitter. By choosing to follow legitimate news sources and people with similar interests, like cycling, my Twitter feed is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Free Expression in Society – The Attack on Salman Rushdie
Be very concerned when certain groups of people consider themselves untouchable and their ideas sacrosanct. Religious belief on the right and on the left (gender religiosity) is poisonous for a society that values free speech and communication.
Continue readingNorthern Currents –: Elon Musk gets the political spectrum so wrong, but so right
Well, it seems like Elon Musk is set to become our new Twitter overlord. This is a terrible idea, for many reasons which will probably be the subject of my next post. He seems to have become the new hope for the online Right. The one who will restore balance
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Gender Stasi in Canada – The Ontario WRDSB Committee Represses Veteran Educator Carolyn Burjoski – January 17, 2022
No topic in a liberal democratic society should be off the table for reasonable debate. Yet here we are in 2022 with a seasoned educator being silenced and suspended for raising safeguarding concerns over ideological transgender literature being made available to children. Don’t take my word for it. See for
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Victory for Women, Victory for Maya Forstater, Victory for Free and Democratic Speech in Society
This ruling changes the environment. This UK ruling states that gender critical beliefs are also protected beliefs under law in the the UK. In other words, you can’t be fired from your job for stating the blindly obvious *FACT* that human beings cannot change their sex. This is a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Halifax Pride Goes Full Tranish Inquisition (and fails) on Halifax Public Library
Let’s start of with Halifax Pride statement of desperately hurt feelings: In recent weeks, Halifax Pride was made aware of a petition asking the Halifax Public Library to remove a newly acquired book that jeopardizes the safety of trans youth, through unsupported medical claims and the transphobic assertion that trans
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Religious Fauxgressive Left – Heresy is Back in 2021
I never thought that I would become politically homeless in my lifetime. The tenets of class analysis, proletarian struggle, looking after the less fortunate in society seemed like a rock-solid bulwark to hold. Lately though, the Left I see is rife with witchhunting, purity tests, and outright excommunication for heretical
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jason Warick reports on how the lack of enforcement of public health rules has emboldened anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers to impose their disregard for community safety on the people around them. Guy Quenneville highlights the Moe government’s decision to do absolutely nothing in the
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Freedom of Speech: What Is To Be Done?
What is to be done about the issue of freedom of speech, and the current, deeply ominous trend of the closing down of Western society, and the inevitably linked rise of authoritarianism? The first thing to be done is to remind the people that there are, as Chomsky has said,
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Stand Up To Corporate Fascism!
Massive new mural in Germany protests the wrongful imprisonment of whistle-blower publisher, and hero of free speech and the public’s right to know about the crimes of the power elite, Julian Assange. Speak up, people! Your democracy, your rights, and your freedom – yes, yours, and all of ours –
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Freedom & Power
I am, for the record, perfectly comfortable with where and how I have positioned myself. I am passionately and steadfastly in favour of freedom, democracy, constitutional rule and human rights; liberty, equality and solidarity; and of course, as a result, I am passionately and steadfastly in favour of freedom of
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