Narrative Based Activism is not News

Ontario PC Party passes resolution to debate recognition of gender identity – Global News

Resolution to do away with gender identity moves forward at Tory convention – City News

Ontario’s PC party passed a non-binding resolution on Saturday calling for education around gender identity to be removed from Ontario schools, prompting critics to deride the move as an attack against transgender people – CBC

The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, led by Premier Doug Ford, passed a controversial policy resolution this weekend that does not recognize gender identity. – CTV News

Ford pledges to stop motion that calls for gender identity to be removed from the health curriculum – The Toronto Star

Doug Ford says PC party proposal that declares gender identity a ‘Liberal ideology’ won’t go ahead – The National Post

The resolution, proposed at the PC party convention, was slammed as transphobic – The Huffington Post

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I attended the Ontario PC convention last weekend and from the monday morning headlines among the mainstream media you’d think it was a front for a clan rally. But somehow in just the last couple of years we have gone from it being controversial to suggest that sexual identity could extend beyond mere male and female to it now being controversial to suggest that male and female ever existed in the first place. And to suggest such things are bigotry. Well, as someone who attended the convention I’d like to give my first hand accounts of the events that took place. Also address the allegations from Jim Karahajackass that the election was rigged. TVO Agenda Interview with Jim Karahalios

“I’m a breathing human being that exists,” Carver said.

“I’m not an ideology. And neither are the rest of our community.”

‘Very afraid’

Carver says even debating this is in contravention of Ontario human rights laws.

“After the roll back of the sex-ed curriculum that’s taken place, and now you see that they would like to remove gender identity and trans identities completely from the schools, it kind of shows the tone that this party is willing to take,” she said.

“It makes organizations and communities like ours very afraid of what this is going to look like going forward.”

– CBC.ca

There was a hell of a lot that happened over the weekend but you wouldn’t know it given that almost every single media reported on one line of resolution brought before delegates by Tanya Granic Allen. Now, there’s a LOT that I can say to rebut the stories but let’s face facts, the current news is a dying media and they thrive off of click bait based stories. They feed off your outrage and drink your tears. I’m not about to call the media “the enemy of the people” or any bull crap like that. Conservatives are no longer opposition, they’re the ones sitting on the throne now. With an almost super majority too. So next election we won’t have the benefit of “change” to campaign on. So it’s important we listen carefully to what everyone is saying, even if we disagree, even if they’re fabrications of the truth. The conservatives have lots of time yet ahead to respond in whatever way they want. But that being said, if this is what the media took away from the convention then frankly it’s just too bad that they’re not mature enough to have a discussion about any other very important topics which we, as a society, will need to address over the next 3 years.

Since the election I’ve made a point to keep in touch with the party and attended a local party meeting where I put my name forward to become a delegate. Luckily I made enough friends through volunteering that others were willing to vote for me and I became a delegate to represent the Mississauga Center riding. This role enables me to participate in conventions and participate in the voting process. Having an actual voice from within the party could be an opportunity to build bridges between those who oppose the government and a party who claims to be of the people. Because I truly do believe that this government can actually have EVERYONE’S interests at heart. But waking up to see the kind of headlines I saw monday really opens my eyes to the uphill battle the whole party has ahead of it. But this does not surprise any conservative. Nor does it discourage us from wanting to reach out and welcome everyone to give the party a chance. Regardless your political stripes, after 15 years of one government, we can all agree that new faces and fresh ideas can be healthy for the province. And with the province getting further and further in debt, with yet more jobs leaving the province and having hallway healthcare, we ALL felt there could be improvements to the way this province was being governed. Even if some of us are too stubborn to admit it.

Well the new government is here and if nothing else, they’ve proven that they’re willing to work their butts off to get shit done. They’re giving it their all to deal with all our baggage NOW, TODAY, instead of leaving it for our children and grandchildren to deal with. But dealing with that is going to take ACTUAL leadership. The kind of leadership that means making unpopular decisions. And that’s just that much more contentious when we live in such a populist age. But conservatives understand that we are adaptable, strong people who would gladly carry today’s burden if it meant opportunity for our future generations. Because it won’t just be debt they’ll be dealing with. It’ll be a landscape of complete automation takeover. We haven’t even been mature enough to discuss the implications of social media’s impact on society let alone what the impact automation innovation will have on our economy. We have more students in postsecondary than ever before at the brink of the dawn of modernization. And that conversation isn’t on ANY media’s radar. It’s not even a priority on a list of things to consider. And that’s how we’re already failing the next generation. Just like the last generation failed us by pushing postsecondary and discouraging skilled trades.

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What I CAN tell you are some of the things that the media decided was irrelevant to cover:

– Ford announced that people earning less than $30 000 per year won’t pay income tax
– Christine Elliot (Deputy Premier and Minister of Health and Long-Term Care) and Lisa MacLeoud (ministry of children, community and social services and minister responsible for women’s issues) tabled an open forum on issues involving their affairs where they took questions. They discussed the overlap between their ministries and how ministers would be working together on many issues to break a culture of segregated duties that left a lot of people in the lurch over “that’s not my job”. And how eliminating red tape and layers of bureaucracy would help open up ministers to getting more directly involved with constituents and getting more hands on with tackling the problems.

Find me one single news report that mentioned anything about human trafficking and I will give you $100. Because Mrs. McLeod declared that Ontario is under a human trafficking crisis. Many girls involved as young as 11 years old. Did you see any reference to that in any news feeds? She also addressed staggering rates of high school and postsecondary drop outs. So that’s on the table to investigate more. And Mrs. Elliott declared they were on point to opening 1000 spaces for hospitals for this year’s flu season. Apparently there are going to be more announcements on this stuff on thursday. So stay tuned.

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– A few of the other resolutions that we voted on included initiatives to promote students pursuing skilled trades (FINALLY THANK GOD) and apparently they’ll be coming out with a more expansive plan to open the trades up so there aren’t such strict regulations around taking on apprentices. I’ve only been waiting for ANY acknowledgement for trade jobs since I started my apprenticeship back in 2006. Until now the only thing was a $1000 grant you could apply to for passing plumbing college courses.
– We voted on other resolutions to promote farming and there were talks about utilizing migrants skilled in agriculture to help grow rural Ontario
– We voted on a resolution to improve community based policing. To recognize that people who live around the Jane and Finch community have different needs than other communities 20 minutes outside in any direction, let alone the differences between suburban Ontario, rural Ontario and downtown cores. In today’s anti-cop culture, this is something we need to address.

And then there was the Tanya Granic Allen resolutions. There were several of them. And the vast majority them on saturday were based around the school curriculum and Kathleen wynne policies and bill89. (Bill89 Interpretation) They were to create a parental bill of rights, which I’m sure first nations people would have appreciated back in the residential school days. Another was to acknowledge parents as the first educators of their children. Stuff that should be common sense but after the assault on the family that was the kathleen wynne government, it’s now necessary for political parties to openly declare their positions on the role of the family. This included an acknowledgement that parents are the first educators of their children. Which is absolutely true! In what world are parents not responsible to raise and inform their children to prepare them for a diverse, modern world? But none of those make for good headlines when you’re trying to outrage your readers I guess. And very counter narrative to be portraying conservatives as protecting rights to cultural traditions and values.

It was papa Trudeau who famously said, “there’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.” And we’re just saying that actually extends to the rest of the house. And then I was thrilled to vote to repeal Bill89 to revert the amendments to the child services act back to how it was before Kathleen Wynne decided that she had the right to remove your kids if you failed to affirm their gender transition, regardless the age. Yeah, we don’t let 5 year old boys walk into the doctor’s office to get a vasectomy or a 5 year old girl getting her tubes tied but God forbid you don’t hook them up to puberty blockers because they claimed they identified more with the opposing gender.

And this is where things get controversial. Not because there’s anything controversial with not wanting to treat your child as a social experiment, but because there are people who actually believe this is an acceptable way to treat a child. Are all these resolutions necessary? Well when you have teachers openly advertising to the world that they have no intention of respecting any wishes of the current government. And the teachers union openly encourages teachers to protest this government. If only they had this much zeal when the Liberals took away collective bargaining and retroactively removed contractual benefits over bill115. (CBC on Bill 115) So yeah, I believe these resolutions were actually necessary. That’s why I also voted for a resolution to make it mandatory for schools to advise parents a day ahead of teaching any sex ed. So if you know your kid’s teacher is an activist you have the ability to pull your child from indoctrination class. Not that I’m happy at the idea of this level of distrust of the education system but it is a symptom of the times we are now living in.

So then we got to the resolution where Tanya calls for an end to the teaching of “Gender Identity Theory” because it is a “highly controversial, unscientific liberal ideology”. The resolutions required 2/3 support to vote. The vast majority of delegates voted in favour of the resolutions, passing them all. I was among those who voted in favour and were very proud to do so. But not one single of these resolutions have anything to do with actual transgender people. The key word you need to pay attention to here is the word “theory”. Conservatives are not like these “progressives” who feel the need to hide behind dressed up language and talk in circles around what they actually mean. The theory is a direct reference to the Marxist method of critique for the purposes of deconstruction. It is not the role of the teacher to contest science through marxist critical theory. Biology is not a theory or bigotry. Biology is reality. And the resolution was aimed to draw a clear distinction between the home and the classroom. The classroom is for teaching facts and the home is for teaching values. Any parents who don’t want to love, embrace and value their children, we have child services for that.

We, in the city, sometimes fail to observe the occasional social bubble we can get trapped in. The majority of Ontarians support these changes and repeatedly complained to the Kathleen Government that she hadn’t consulted with them at all before making any of these radical changes. This government is doing just this, consulting. But it’s typical that we cannot even table a discussion of these subjects without being denounced by every media outlet. These aren’t direct policies either, these are votes on subject matter towards policy creation for next year’s convention. So right now they’re nothing more than conversation. Taking a temperature of relevant issues. And it’s not like the newspapers even engaged in that dialogue, it’s just your typical “bigot, racist, homophobe, transphobe, etc etc etc” and making sure every person you interview talks about how scared they are. Because treating the government as the boogeyman isn’t intellectually dishonest at all. But the media is not speaking for the actual majority view of the people. All they have demonstrated by their headlines are that they are narrative based activism, not the objective news that people deserve.

If you want to understand better how the wider main stream media manipulates the truth, feel free to watch this video lecture with Melanie Phillips: Melanie Philips Lecture on how media manipulate the truth.

Conservatives don’t have gender or ethnicity quotas. And the party has displayed quite well that this has not held anyone back from entering the party. The media would have you believe this is the party of white supremacists. I’m not saying all conservatives are angels, we’re all just people and some of us can be assholes but most of us are good people. And this government manages a visibly diverse cabinet and inner party executive base. What these resolutions are about are drawing a line in the sand to define what things go too far. And all you need to do to see what’s wrong with these regressive ideologies on the left is simply contemplate 10 years into the future to see all implications of all these things we cling to in the name of “compassion”. The road to hell was paved with good intentions. And it’s time for everyone to know that it’s ok to have these conversations, it’s ok to stand up and say “no”.

A girl does not have to be the same as a boy to be equal. Diversity is our strength BECAUSE of our differences. Our ability to build bridges make us more innovative and more effective as a collective. Multiculturalism at its best is colour blind. Rating and ranking groups of people on superficial traits like skin colour is nothing more than divisive, regressively tribal and in contempt of individual sovereignty.

The conservatives won the election with an almost super majority because people of all walks of life around Ontario do not want their children to be social experiments. The actual science (as per sex researcher Dr. Debra Soh) says that the vast majority of children who identify with the opposing gender at an early age turn out to be gay. To see homosexual tendencies in your child and immediately act to affirm a transition of their own gender is nothing more than trying to train the gay out of your child in an act of some kind of bizarre inverted homophobia. My daughter won’t be a lesbian if she’s a straight man. My son won’t be gay if he’s a woman. And even if they are among the less than 1% of people who actually do truly feel they were born in the wrong body, they can wait till they’re adults to make that very adult decision. Why do you NEED hormone blockers for a minor? So they’ll be more “passable” when they transition in the future?

Hey, if I had a kid and they showed me that they truly believed they were a trapped in the wrong body, I would do everything in my power to make my kid feel comfortable in their own skin and I’d like to think we would find a way to make it work. People seem to think this attitude is rare when in reality the vast majority of families actually love and support their kids. And no one wants to see ANY kid left behind. But to subject the rest of the 99% of children and families to this deconstructionist post-modern authoritarianism is just insane. And that’s what the province told us on election day, it was actually campaigned on by Doug Ford.

Look, identity is a complex thing. If Kathleen Wynne had not gone SO extreme with her ideological possession then the pendulum wouldn’t need to autocorrect so hard. There is a reason why the Liberals got reduced below party status on election day. And if you want to believe it’s because of homophobic bigots then I ask you, who voted her into a majority in the prior election? The same homophobic bigots? She had a real opportunity here and she completely blew it by betraying the center. She stopped listening. I believe there is room for us to ALL agree on these issues. We all spend like the first 30 years of our lives trying to figure out who we are. Politically, sexually, philosophically, technically, artistically, athletically, etc. No one is saying there is no room for healthy discussion around the things that make us different. And it’s important that we observe, listen and learn from those who struggle through this. Vice did an indepth doc on trans children.

To the handful of parents who do have to deal with gender dysphoria issues with their little kids, my heart really does hurt for them. It really is a very complex issue. And very scary. But it’s more than clear to me that these unique situations need to be treated as a case by case basis. There may be situations where hormone blockers really are the best path forward. I literally cannot think of one scenario like that but I’m open to the possibility of it. But that’s up to that family to decide. Not any level of government bureaucracy. How anyone can’t agree on that is so fucking crazy to me. To subject an entire province to government tyranny like this based on junk science really just shows the contempt some people have for the vast majority of us.

But the differences of a classroom will vary from classroom to classroom and it’s the role of the teacher to identify the needs of the students and cater to those needs. But we need to get back to a time when teachers and parents had healthy, trusting relationships and the child’s best interests at the forefront. But we will never get to that place, we will never get to that place if we cannot entertain any shred of nuance. This is not debating anyone’s “existence” or “humanity” or anything like that. We’re trying to find a way forward that works for EVERYONE and gets education RIGHT. Not something that works for less than 1% of people and sticks the rest of us with the middle finger. When you get education right everything else falls into place. Deconstructing known facts in the name of “progressiveness” and “compassion” will only hurt society. Like, where would you draw the line? Should we allow the teaching of flat earth theory? Just because something calls itself “inclusive” doesn’t mean that’s actually good for us.

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These are not my ideas by the way. there is a very vocal minority of professors who are speaking out about this stuff in academia. A minority because people are frankly terrified of the mob violence naysayers are subjected to. If this stuff is all relatively new to you then I highly advise you check out this fantastic lecture by Gad Saad.

Take the case of Emile Ratelbrand, the 69-year-old Dutchman who is seeking to change his age to 49. It’s hard to find a girlfriend when you’re 69, you know? Employers constantly discriminate against him based on his age but who are they to say that a 69 year old man can’t work a physical labour job for the next 30 years? Does the military or police or firefighters have a special bigoted, ageist agenda to hold back older people? why should they treat a 69 year old any different from a 19 year old? They don’t know his lived experience, they don’t know his truth! If you think this is ridiculous then you just haven’t been paying attention. If you do not stand for anything you just fall for everything. And we can discuss what things are actually good but there is no debating things that are actually bad. Bad actions actually tilt this world towards hell and we need to all shake hands, unite and move forward together.

I mean, if we’re going to talk about gay rights or trans rights then let’s discuss THAT. It’s not hard to observe all the ways homosexual and trans people experience REAL hate around the world. Whether that be the solidarity march in Ukraine that even the police failed to protect victims over. Or being sentenced to death through sharia law, resulting in being thrown off the roof of a high rise building. Or perhaps the leader of the country refuses to even acknowledge that their country even has a homosexual population. And even here at home we have places like covenant house which houses teenagers who have been kicked out of their homes for coming out to their parents. These are very real issues.

Simply discussing policy is not homophobia or transphobia. It’s a slap in the face to people who have actually experienced real hate and it actually creates a larger stigma against homosexuals and trans individuals. If we’re going to talk about one’s own “humanity” then we need to stop weaponizing actual people to be used as slurs against people and ideas we disagree with. There is nothing more patronizing than someone getting offended on my behalf. These people have dealt with tougher issues than the majority of us, they don’t need Andrea Horwath crying for them when her tears come with a subscription fee. Pride is more important than just some weekend event. And I’d like to invite all LGBTQ people to unite on this front and demand politicians stop using them as populist fodder for cheap political points. They deserve better. And I want to make it my mission to make sure that this PC government has an ear open to listen to ALL people. That’s why I invite you to put Ontario on your agenda. Let’s make Ontario the uniting tribe that we can all relate to. Let’s focus more on listening to one another. Your interests as an Ontarian are my interests as an Ontarian.

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Now to address these claims of voting fraud. Take a look at that picture above. See how my voting card has been stamped? That means I voted. And it means you’re only voting once. If I were to slap another sticker over my name the hole would still be punched in the tag. They specifically had a table of people you went to before voting to handle your tag to verify you haven’t already voted. I even hung around the area while waiting on a few others and I did not see anyone voting more than once or anything sketchy at all. All these constitution amendments that he talked about in the TVO interview that were all so based on “democracy” were crazy. Things like if the party leader pisses you off you get to vote on kicking him out. Because apparently no one has learned anything from the chaos that was patrick brown. How the fuck does that not leave things open for any special interest group to come in and sabotage the whole party right before an election? Once you have a leader you need to get behind that leader and unite as a party, not constantly hold them hostage to inner party squabbling. Almost all his amendments were voted down and he lost the bid for party president and now he’s just butt hurt as all hell and throwing a temper tantrum. And the fact that he doesn’t care how it makes the party as a whole look is pretty disgraceful. I was shocked at how much support he had. But I’m glad Jim lost.

“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.”

– Elvis Presley

Disclaimer

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I just want to post a quick little update. Which might translate into 39 paragraphs of word salad. But I just felt that before I really get into the topics that I’m going to be discussing over this blog I just thought it would be a good idea to be totally up front about myself. I am in no way claiming that anything I post here should be taken with any level of journalistic integrity or be considered with the same standard of actual news sources. I’m not an intellectual nor do I have any real formal writing skills beyond the highschool level. I’ve worked with immigrants who speak better English than me. I barely know how to even walk without tripping or walking into things. Rosanne Bar would call me a “fucking mess”.

So before you start going off about “cherry picking” I want to proactively agree with you that I am not the most appropriate person to be interpreting data of any kind. I am just some dude who is attempting to both sort himself out and analyze what’s going on in the world around him. So before you throw out any dog whistle, straw man, hyperbole terminology to attack my arguments it’s important that you understand that I’m prone to stupid mistakes like misreading or misinterpreting things. Any data, articles or videos I share on this blog are simply to be used to help me articulate an argument. But don’t take my word for it, do your own due diligence to look into any content I share before you decide to form any opinion of your own.

How about I just post a bunch of words and you take responsibility for your own opinions, mmk? PERFECT! I’m not trying to be anything I’m not. I’m a voter. And I really give a fuck about who wins my support.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. – Thomas Jefferson

How Jordan Peterson Changed My Life

I thought this was a good place to start. Yes, I’m the young white male every media outlet accuses Jordan Peterson of attracting. But this book truly opened my eyes. It made me peer into the dark corners of my own mind, my life and the direction in which my life is heading. When you’re a 31-year-old man who hasn’t had a serious relationship in over 7 years, grossly overweight and not living up to your potential, there’s a reason you avoid mirrors. If I could sum up my adult life simply, I would say it has just been a back and forth of both planning and talking myself out of my suicide. A real contribution to society.

I once had a relationship with a woman I thought I would call my wife. I went from being the ideal boyfriend in a relationship people admired to finding myself an utter failure of a human being in a non-existent relationship, being hated by my friends. “How the fuck did I get here?” is a question I would go on to ask myself through therapy for 7 years. Until I read 12 rules for life. I learned that nothing is more real than pain. And actions DO HAVE CONSEQUENCES. And I started to see how my actions tilted the world closer to hell and how lies ate away at my soul. I’ve been re-reading the book over and over and constantly working on sorting myself out. A year into this and I’m shocked at how little progress I’ve made in ways yet how much progress I’ve made in other ways. I still haven’t managed to clean my room. Well, to keep it clean.

One of the big things I’ve learned about myself is how deeply I internalized my guilt. I felt guilty for everything. For the broken home I grew up in. For failed relationships and friendships growing up. In fact I think I actively looked for things to blame myself for. What’s a pity party without company? So I was more than happy to subscribe to the idea that I am a product of oppression to natives. I was inheriting unearned privilege because of my skin colour and I was just a tainted person. Sure, I’d never admit it to anyone’s face but I lived my life constantly contemplating how to justify my existence. Trying to make up the best apology for my ethnicity and gender that I could. Opting out of post secondary education so to leave the opportunities for others who deserved it more. I got into a trade. And it turned out to be the best decision I ever made. But I tried to compensate for this guilt with a know-it-all attitude and wokeness that made me feel I was simply depressed because I was smarter than everyone else who was happier with their lives.

But being a know-it-all really just means you’re a dumbass and the toxic guilt I carried with me made me into a weak man. And it’s not the strong men that people need to watch out for, it’s the weak ones. As pointed out in Rule 6, Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world. It’s the weak men who are able to lie to their lovers face without flinching. The weak men who hold tight to petty things like they’re trying to strangle life itself. Weak men like me who feel entitled to things they don’t deserve. But weak in the way that they don’t have enough self respect to walk away from destructive situations. Weak men make bad deals. Weak men do bad things.

Jordan Peterson opened my eyes to see that our perception of masculinity is all wrong. The hierarchies in society is not a product of capitalism. Capitalism is only a couple hundred years old. Hierarchies have been around since before trees. He outlines this argument in Rule 1, stand up straight with your shoulders back. We have no problem discussing empowering women or building strong women but there is such a reluctance to embrace similar terminology for men. As if we’re trying to apologize for the Harvey Weinsteins of the world. But what is it to empower a man? What is masculine strength? Raw power only leads to tyranny. The patriarchy that we’re all apparently guilty of. But true power is competence. Commitment and leadership, the ability to bear responsibility.

Peterson talks about this a lot. The quest for happiness has been a red hearing all along. “Happiness” is nothing more than a forced smile. Sure, you can fake it till you make it but then you find out you’ve got terminal cancer and six months to live. Good luck with your smile. Meaning and purpose. These are things that truly offset suffering. And if you’re lucky, happiness will be a byproduct of it. But you only achieve it through bearing as much responsibility as possible. Real men make commitments. Do right by yourself, do right by your family and do right by your community. That’s the way we tilt the world away from hell. And I’ve been doing my best to be a better person, be a better brother and son, and be a better citizen and friend.

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Since 2016 when I started sorting myself out I’ve also been observing society since Trump got elected. I was as shocked as everyone else that he got in. I honestly believed he had disqualified himself with the comments he’d made. I became fixated on this phenomena. And I vowed to myself the day he was sworn in that I would be more active in calling out injustice wherever I saw it. I had subscribed to this idea that there are far more bigots and racists than I had realized. This could be the only explanation for Trump. But what shocked me even more was when I’d find myself calling out those of us on the left far more than those on the right.

Before Trump, I was a CBC, National Post, Macleans, TVO, CTV, Global, BBC, NPR, CNN man. I would rather look at news and documentaries than anything else. But I started to notice something odd. I heard it described as Trump derangement syndrome. Where whatever Trump said or did people felt the need to opposite it with as much if not more fervor than Trump. Regardless how biased or inaccurate the reporting, the news media which once happily used Trump for ratings now acted as though this man was the antichrist. But what happened as a side effect to this new narrative based activism reporting was that now the media had tunnel vision. They would only report on stories and people who did not run contrary to their narrative. resulting in them ignoring certain stories and causing distrust among people. Further polarizing the already polarized.

With the impact Jordan Peterson was having on my life I naturally wanted to see everything he was involved in to learn more about the man. I looked up old videos with him on TVO where they discussed his recent controversial BillC16 protest. I couldn’t believe what I was watching. Claims that there is no such thing as biological sex. Accusations that Peterson’s stance on BillC16 was violence towards his students and that he ought to be regarded as a bigot. Ideas that the Steve Paikin I’d admired and respected for so long didn’t even bother attempting to challenge. I initially shrugged it off as deviant behaviour by extreme leftists which wasn’t representative of the broader leftist orientation. But as time went on I saw more and more of this type of ideology.

My come-to-Jesus moment was when I saw Premier Kathleen Wynne stand up in front of the media and warn the public that everyone needed to get out and vote because otherwise it would be people who looked like her, old and white, who would be casting their votes. And this is something obviously we should all be so afraid of. This is the same woman who declared to black lives matters that there IS in fact systematic racism and oppression. Yet no one among the media were asking what role the Liberal government played in that system as they had been governing the entire province for the past near 15 years. If this “systematic racism” wasn’t created by the governing liberals then who did create it? Or was it an easy lie to rally a special interest group to further radical legislation? Easy to pass legislation under the guise of compassion if people genuinely believe that there is hate and bigotry everywhere. I wonder if the same hate and bigotry was present when Ontario voted a lesbian woman in as the Premier 4 years earlier. That’s how she got away with BillC16 and Bill89. I’ll address these bills in more depth in later posts.

I discovered Petersons youtube channel which featured his biblical series and all his classroom lectures. For months, this is all I listened to. It was broadening my mind and exposing my preconceived notions at a rate that made me feel like I had lived an entire lifetime and was now reborn. And then by following Peterson he would go on to lead me in the direction of other great people. The Joe Rogan podcast. The Rubin Report with Dave Rubin. Mark Steyn, Gad Saad, Sam Harris, (a post-rehab) Glen Beck, Stefan Molyneux, Ben Shapiro, Jonathan Pageau, Paul VanderKlay, Lindsay Shepherd, Steven Crowder and more. And through these people I discovered other people like Karen Straughan, Lauren Chen, Lauren Southern, Sargon of Akkad, Rebel Wisdom, Owen Benjamin, Blaire White, Contra Points, Tommy Robinson, Alfsvoid, Yaron Brook, Bettina Arndt, Po the Person, Debra Soh, Bret and Eric Weinstein, Cassie Jaye, John Anderson, Faith Goldy, Steven Pinker, Jonathan Haidt, Theryn Meyer, Amy Chua, and more.

I went from subscribing to less than a dozen channels on youtube to now following over three hundred. I quickly realized that there were points of view that I had never considered before. And if a liberal and conservative or an atheist and a theologian could sit down and have a healthy dialogue than who was I to be above any argument or perspective? Maybe I believed the whole “basket of deplorables” thing because there was a whole reality I wasn’t paying attention to. Till this day, a year later, I’m still catching up on videos and books. I may be overwhelming myself and making it too difficult to function on single tasks but I do feel I will reach a point where I have a stronger grip on reality. I’ve found it helpful to also buy a series of books that are an introduction to philosophy, politics, psychology and economics. These have also helped me wrap my mind around the content of those I’m following.

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These Days I really only watch the mainstream media to get local news and to study the latest in the narrative that they are espousing. Most coverage is used as protest of the oppressive, patriarchal machine that is capitalism and the western world. And how any product of that system is systematic racism, homophobia, transphobia, islamophobia and sexism. I hope that I will soon be able to feature some of my findings here. But frankly things are happening at such a quick rate that it’s hard enough to keep up let alone go back and cover past transgressions.

If you know anything about Jordan Peterson then all you need to do is read anything any mainstream media has written about him or watch any mainstream interviews to see exactly the narrative based activism I’m talking about because you won’t find more dishonest reporting than the claims thrown against him. It appears that in an effort to fight against Trump’s populist, divisive claims of fake news, they’ve doubled down on an ideology that has made the fake news a self fulfilling prophecy. Where reporting on feelings take precedence over reporting on facts. If that doesn’t factor into public discourse then I don’t know what does. MSNBC literally claimed that Sarah Huckabee Sanders should be choked.

These “feminists” couldn’t demonstrate more clearly that they’re not for all women, just women who think the right way. All other women can be killed and discarded, they couldn’t care less. The ideology has become more important than the humanity. There couldn’t be a greater example of this double standard than that of Mrs. Sanders. She’s the first press secretary who requires special security protection because of the threats made against her by the very “progressives” who claim to advocate for women. Maybe it’s her ability to keep her shit together while everyone literally screams at her or maybe it’s her ability to stare Jim Acosta of CNN in the eye as she dismantles his goofy fucken virtue signalling but there’s something about Sarah Sanders that I just find sexy as fuck. I can’t help it. She’s all woman and then some. People only hate her because she’s so good at her job. Let’s face facts, she’s got the job of being Donald Trump’s PR. That job RUINED Sean Spicer. How Sean Spicer doesn’t pull a Robyn Williams, I’ll never understand. Sarah Sanders has lasted like 282 Scaramuccis. She’s probably the strongest woman alive. Love her or hate her. I’ll love her.

Ultimately I decided to start this blog to better formulate my thoughts and arguments and practice in communicating concepts and ideas to help me sharpen my blade for battle. Things are getting too crazy and we all need to have that point where we stand and say “no”. If we don’t stand for anything then we fall for everything. 4 years ago I was shocked when Ontario voted in favour of a Liberal majority government after all of the insane scandals that have taken place over the past decade. But the epiphany I had was with all my complaining, what did I do as an individual to facilitate the change I wanted? So this year I got involved and signed up as a volunteer for the conservative candidate in my local riding. I decided conservative because everything I had been seeing lead me to believe free speech was the most important issue of our current time and the conservatives were the only ones who even cared about it.

Aside from that, there was no way I was voting for the corrupt Liberals who were literally borrowing from our future to buy votes today. And the candidate in my riding for the NDP was literally a self proclaimed Marxist. Somehow people who wave a communist flag are treated differently than those who wave a Nazi flag. I don’t get it. But there is something seductive about Marxism that makes smart people succumb to bad ideas. And I see more and more of marxism creeping into our society. It brilliantly allies itself with groups who take the stance that in order to oppose their Marxism you must also oppose them as people. And that’s where we get these claims of ideas and words as violence against people’s humanity.

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So I volunteered for the conservative candidate who is now our MPP, the honourable Natalia Kusendova. This woman worked her ass off and was an inspiration to me. While the media reported on us being a backwards party of old white men, I was supporting a millennial polish nurse who wanted to bring fresh ideas to a fresh new government to advocate for our healthcare system. But they weren’t interested in her story. After we won the election I found myself attending a general meeting for our riding and both putting myself forward to join our riding’s board as a delegate. Luckily I had made enough friends in my volunteering that I received enough votes to elect me in.

This put me in a position to attend the conservative party conventions and participate in discussions, debates and vote directly on policy and constitution amendments and resolutions. It was an amazing experience and a breath of fresh air to speak to like minded people. As a result, I ended up participating in directly voting on resolutions to repeal bill89 and billc16. I could actually see in a measurable way how my actions lead me exactly to where I wanted to be, when I wanted to be there. It was like witnessing the fruits of my labour. As small a part as I played, here I was, voting on the very issues that motivated me to get involved in the first place. It was the first moment I legitimately felt proud to be a conservative. But the whole event eye opening into just how diverse the conservative party is. Both in ethnicity and in ideas and perspectives. I don’t know where this will all take me but I am doing my part in facilitating the change I believe will make Ontario better for our future generations. Because I’ve learned that if you don’t stand up and participate then you automatically consent to those who would do you harm.

I’d like to use this blog to help me process my development as I learn more about society and the history from where we come from. But I also hope to use this platform to share the valuable content I’ve been exposed to so others can also have their status quo challenged and reassess their values. But also to use this platform to rebut the ongoing narrative that is the mainstream media’s doctrine. And I do so in hopes that when the Trump era is over, whether it be in 2020 or 2024, what replaces him won’t be worse than him. Let’s all agree to figure out whatever lesson it is to learn and actually learn it. Otherwise history will be doomed to repeat itself.

I really do believe that I, my lonely little self, has the ability to influence this. Because of social media the networks among us are far more powerful than any other time in history. If I only manage to reach 1 person then there is the potential that they will reach 1 person. And so on. Having exponential impact. And in a time where Doug Ford beat Christine Elliot by 200 hundred votes for the leadership, there is always the potential for change if one is willing to facilitate it. We need to find a way to welcome people back to a more balanced centre. So I’ll do my part in working to find that path.

I will be attempting to draw lines to define precisely what it looks like to go too far on both the left and the right. I will work to debunk this modern day neo-Marxism and reveal it for the self devouring snake it is. And call it out wherever it appears. Because I truly believe we are heading toward a reduction of two tribes. The Right Tribe, where society may be broken but is inherently good and worth fixing. Or the Left Tribe, where society is broken because it is inherently bad and must be burnt down and all must be purged. I think we’re already too far committed to these tribes to dismantle them, aka I fear the centre may truly be dead. So if I can make a convincing enough case to side with the Right tribe then maybe we’ll find the key we need to heal society and bring an era of peace for our children like never before. That’s worth fighting for.

And I know I wouldn’t be where I am without Jordan Peterson. Thank you Jordan. For everything you’ve done for me and continue to do. I promise before I post again I will clean my room.

“If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don’t need to worry about the future.”
― Jordan Peterson

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The Journey Begins

I really like those ugly, inarticulate, wordy, word-salad rants. The truth is, I’m not really writing TO anyone here. I like to put these ideas out to invite everyone to participate in the discussion or to counter my arguments with better arguments. But I’m not posting FOR anyone other than myself. Not to say reaction’s don’t influence my thinking. But the reason I like these ugly posts is because I have found it really helps me better formulate my thoughts. I am using this platform to think out loud. I’m not an intellectual, I’m not well read and I don’t bring any formal skills to the table here. I am merely trying to sort myself out and take in everything that’s happening so quickly around me. I may not always communicate effectively but doing this, I think, will make for good practice.

I am attempting to do right by myself, my family and my community.

Thanks for joining me!

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. – Reinhold Neibuhr

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