John Cleese is the master of both silly walks and sublime comedy takes.
The Monty Python veteran is as feisty as ever at 84, slashing those attempting to crush comedy that breaks any kind of so-called rule.
“Cancel Culture”
Kristin Raworth: The progressive bullies came for me
Recently, Governor General Mary Simon came under fire for her decision to host an online harm symposium last weekend. Not because the concept is bad, not because it is inappropriate for the Governor General to use her office to highlight an ongoing issue with internet harassment, no. She came under fire for the fact that her office was doing so in support of Liberal party legislation with Justice Minister Arif Virani, who introduced the bill, in attendance. It is a pretty clear violation of the non-partisan role the Governor General is expected and constitutionally obligated to perform.
We Will Not Go Meekly
Is political speech free in the capital of Europe? Incredibly, given the antics of the Brussels mayor and other officials over the past few days, the answer seems to be no. Pay attention: the scandalous events of the last week have massive symbolic weight for the future of Europe.
Yoram Hazony has been hosting National Conservatism (NatCon) conferences on two continents for the past few years. On Monday, the day before the April 16 kickoff of this week’s event in Brussels, the Israeli-American scholar, who runs the Edmund Burke Foundation which is sponsoring the conference, should have been busy putting the final touches on the gathering.
.@Nigel_Farage: "We can see that legally-held opinions from people who are going to win national elections are no longer acceptable here in Brussels — the home of globalism." #NatConBrussels2 pic.twitter.com/6IfG7rKUfV
— Brussels Signal (@brusselssignal) April 16, 2024
UPDATE: The entrance of the venue is still under a police barricade. Delegates can leave, but they cannot return. #NatConBrussels2 pic.twitter.com/kTQzvHW4TI
— National Conservatism (@NatConTalk) April 16, 2024
Where Cancel Culture Must Go Next
… A modest suggestion for cancel culture is to start by focusing on Muslim countries in the Middle East. After all, far more blacks were taken as slaves from Africa to Middle Eastern Muslim countries than were taken to the New World.
The question for cancel culture becomes how to start making Muslims in the Middle East aware of their sin of slavery. In the United States, cancel culture had some success by focusing on well known slave owners such as the Founding Fathers. Cancel culture might want to use the same strategy and focus on well known slave-owners who were Muslims.
h/t quanga
Canada Wants to Regulate Online Content. Critics Say It Goes Too Far.
Canada has waded into the contentious issue of regulating online content with a sweeping proposal that would force technology companies to restrict and remove harmful material, especially posts involving children, that appears on their platforms.
While the intent to better monitor online content has drawn widespread support, the bill has faced intense backlash over its attempt to regulate hate speech. Critics say the proposal crosses the line into censorship.
America’s censors have committed their Guernica
America’s cultural mood calls to mind a bunch of people tentatively peering out from their hiding places in the aftermath of a torrential hailstorm. Is it over? Can we come out now? Are we still cancelling each other to death, or has the vibe finally shifted?
On Feb. 22, the Lake Report, a local newspaper in Ontario, published an Canadian Librarian Fired For Arguing That Libraries Should Be Ideologically Neutral
Canada’s “Freedom to Read” week was all about promoting censorship.
As Big Brother says, “Ignorance is Strength.”
Leigh Revers: I am a professor at U of T, and I was sanctioned for encouraging debate
Last month, as a part of a social event for current students in the department of chemical and physical sciences (CPS) at the University of Toronto Mississauga, I offered to run an activity popularized by American academic Peter Boghossian: Spectrum Street Epistemology.
h/t Sweetpea
GUNTER: Woke leftists will use online bill to wreak havoc
If Bill C-63 passes, it will lead to cancel culture on steroids.
The scariest aspect of the Liberals’ new online harms bill (Bill C-63) is that it revives the old Section 13 hate-speech provisions of the Canadian Human Rights Act and puts the highly biased Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) in charge of policing the internet.
Couple of constipated cranks conspire to cancel Etobicoke’s cool coat of arms.
ARMS RACE: City rushed to remove symbol so offensive no one can explain it
City staff, including at Toronto Public Health, got to work compiling complaints regarding Etobicoke’s coat of arms following as few as four criticisms from the public.
Race Grifting Pickering mayor slams Councillor Lisa Robinson’s common sense Black history month column as ‘racist’ and ‘unethical’
A controversial Pickering councillor’s column ranting about Black History Month is being slammed by the mayor as “racist, irresponsible and unethical,” and may bring further discipline for the councillor whose pay was suspended twice last year.
In the 1,000-word article published in The Oshawa/Durham Central Newspaper, Coun. Lisa Robinson denounced government programs for Black communities, said people are “hung up” on the transatlantic slave trade, called the idea of white privilege “racist,” and called herself a “modern-day slave.”
The column, which contained several spelling and grammatical errors, was titled “It is not black and white,” and suggested that Black History Month is divisive.
No doubt this caused the usual woke race grifters to salivate like Pavlov’s dog.
But the fact is their reaction proves that Ms. Robinson has struck a nerve.
She didn’t say anything racist, she merely expressed truths that exposed the race baiters con.
Ontario Teen Suspended for Gender Views Seeks Judicial Review of ‘Secret’ School Board Decision
An Ontario teen who was suspended from school after supporting female students concerned over transgender students using the girls’ bathroom is asking the court to review the school board’s decision.
Josh Alexander was initially suspended from St. Joseph’s Catholic High School, which is part of the Renfrew County Catholic District School Board (RCCDSB) in Ontario, in November 2022 after expressing his view that there are only two genders.
Defame and Punish: How extreme left NGOs the ADL & SPLC mobilize private and public assets to silence critics
The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project recently procured a cache of government documents that expose a disturbing pattern: left-wing NGOs seeking to mobilize the state against political opponents on specious accusations of “violent extremism.”
According to the report, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) urged Washington State’s “unified counterterrorism” center to investigate me, Daily Wire host Matt Walsh, and social-media influencer Libs of TikTok, under the false pretext that our reporting on gender theory in schools and transgender medical interventions constitutes “hate,” “extremism,” and “violence.”
The ADL and the SPLC are evil.