“Peak Woke”

What’s going on with young people today?

I was at a private function recently where Jordan Peterson was speaking and talked to a couple whose sons, one in his late teens and the other in his early 20s, were his avid aficionados. They told me that many of those in their demographic were fans of Peterson. I asked why there were so many conservative young people these days, since in my youth that was rare. They replied that young people invariably rebel against their parents and that the parents of today’s young people are socially liberal.

The Nazis weren’t white supremacists, they were diversity supremacists.

It wasn’t the entirely non-white cast of Founding Fathers that brought down Google’s Gemini AI, but the diverse Nazis. The AI image generator demonstrated an unwillingness to depict white people in any role, but the one that outraged everyone was the black Nazi soldiers.

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.

The Royal Air Force Air Cadets (Rafac) have been branded “over-sensitive” after ordering members to stop using the word marksman as part of a “gender-neutral” rebrand.

Teenage cadets and adult instructors have been ordered to stop using the centuries-old term as part of an overhaul of shooting badges that members can earn.

One of the grandest fictions of our leftist media is that somehow, championing “social change” is what makes you a “bona fide news organization.” Anyone who resists that siren song isn’t a professional, but a propagandist. One-sided coverage is great — if you’ve picked the right side.

On Feb. 19, National Public Radio displayed this fiction with an audaciously arrogant story headlined “Poland’s new government deprograms its once far-right public media.” Let’s especially giggle at the word “deprogram.” To restore something to the Left is like breaking out of a cult.

The Province of British Columbia is now instructing its residents not to refer to themselves as “British Columbians” as the term is offensive.

All bureaucrats must be sent to a gulag.

Last night, stand-up comic Shane Gillis hosted Saturday Night Live – America’s premier, if long-past-its-best, sketch-comedy show – a little more than four years after he was fired from its cast, in one of the swiftest and most savage cancellations the industry had ever witnessed.

Whether attacking marriage, calling out white privilege or seeking to defund the police, the university class espouse ideas that confer status on them at little cost. But it’s the least privileged who suffer the effects

Born in Los Angeles into what many would consider the American lower class, I entered the foster system aged three after my drug-addicted birth mother, originally from Seoul, was unable to care for me. Over the next five years, I moved through seven different foster homes. I grew up without knowing my father, only discovering his Hispanic heritage, with roots in Mexico and Spain, through a genetic test last year.

The Canadian public opposes the woke position on both transgender issues and the national past. In fact, there is virtually no difference between Americans, Britons and Canadians, Anglophones or Francophones, on culture war issues. These are the findings of my new Macdonald-Laurier Institute report, The Politics of the Culture Wars in Contemporary Canada.