X: Recipe for Hate – in today’s Hill Times!
Over there on the right. I look rather edgy.
Over there on the right. I look rather edgy.
So, the Alberta mistake. Also, the braying and screeching.
Even the Washington Post has (amusingly) taken note. The Washington Post!
The hullaballoo – the ceaseless braying and screeching – has prompted me to declare: I’m an Albertan. Alberta’s home. My family has lived there for decades. Hell, I’m heading back there to teach at the University of Calgary’s law school soon enough.
And, yes, I’m a liberal/Liberal (although I’ve always been more of a Democrat, but that’s a story for another day). But, just because I’ve worked for a three-majority Liberal Prime Minister (that Chrétien guy) and a three-majority Liberal Premier (that McGuinty guy), doesn’t mean I’m ever afraid to criticize my own team. In the past few days, I’ve roughed them up pretty good over the appalling Khadr payment, for example.
So, believe me when I tell you: this Trudeau-forgetting-Alberta thing is a prairie-style butt truffle. It’s stupid. Ten reasons.
Albertans (where I grew up) are like Quebeckers (where I was born). They see themselves as a distinct society: part of Canada, but arguably better than the rest of Canada. As such, when the offered the opportunity, they will never hesitate to moan that they have been harmed and humiliated and hurt. It’s in the genes.
So, will Albertans accordingly let Trudeau’s slip, slip by? Not on your life.
When even the Washington Post is taking note of the mistake, there’s braying and screeching to be done!
At present, I am at the cabin, blasting them at the trees as I peck away.
Little-known facts.
The Mother of all Storms up here in the woods last night. Here’s what the security camera caught before everything shut down.
Can you see the mystery guest, coming up the hill?
I get it. The full-time folks are gone on holiday, people are a bit sleepy, Peter Mansbridge has finally (finally) departed. CBC isn’t firing on all cylinders. I get it.
But, you know, I keep thinking about two things.
One, Steve Ladurantaye gets pilloried by CBC – he gets eviscerated – for an obvious tweeted joke. Being (full disclosure) a friend of Steve, and being someone who writes novels – and, you know, fiction would be impossible if it didn’t “appropriate” culture – I found the way in which they treated him appalling and disgusting and cruel. I wrote about it. (Steve doesn’t know I’m writing this, by the way. He doesn’t tell me what to say, and vice-versa.)
Two, this week the CBC itself – on its flagship programs The National and Power and Politics, no less – bring on a far-Right white supremacist leader, and let him say whatever the Hell he wants. This creep has written on The Rebel’s web site about how he hates Jews, calls blacks “monkeys,” calls himself “anti-Semitic,” says Jews should “get over” the Holocaust, and authors essays titled “I’m Not a Racist, Sexist, or a Homophobe, You Nigger Slut Faggot.” It’s all there in Google, easy to find. And CBC brings the racist on TV, arrogantly thinking they can “handle” him, and he handles them instead. And, only when there is a massive backlash about their stupidity do they offer up a hasty apology. Only about how they questioned him – not about bringing him on in the first place.
But did anyone get dismissed for helping out a neo-Nazi? Did anyone get maligned in company-wide emails from the bosses? Did anyone get named and shamed? Did anyone get forced by management to sit through a veritable Salem witch trial, in which they were defamed and libelled, and their bosses didn’t say word one to stop it?
Not on your fucking life.
As a test, and because I allegedly know a little bit about the racist Right, I wrote to a CBC manager, and offered to write up a piece about why they made a mistake. The eventual reply: “Don’t think we’ll bite on this.”
Gotcha. We’ll bite on Steve Ladurantaye, however, because Deepest Annex was apoplectic for all of ten minutes. But bite on why Canadians’ tax dollars shouldn’t be used to provide an uncritical platform for a white supremacist?
No, the CBC won’t bite on that.
Well, you know what, CBC? Bite on me. Bite on us. You guys are so full of shit, it almost makes me wonder if crazy Right-wingers are right about you.
You know: the ones you invite on-air, to talk about why indigenous people deserve to be scalped.
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You guys made a big mistake giving credibility and airtime to a leader of the new anti-Semitic/white supremacist Right. Big. #cbc #cdnpoli https://t.co/kl7W0WPkSn
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 5, 2017
And it isn’t just me saying so. As HuffPo noted, your interview went completely “off the rails.”
Is it within your mandate to give an uncritical platform to a wasted hater like McInnes, who has written on The Rebel’s web site about how he hates Jews, calls blacks “monkeys,” calls himself “anti-Semitic,” says Jews should “get over” the Holocaust, and authors essays titled “I’m Not a Racist, Sexist, or a Homophobe, You Nigger Slut Faggot“? Is it?
No, it isn’t. Get your heads out of your asses, The National and Power and Politics.
"Hey! Let's give the nuclear codes to an addled, unglued old jerk!" #uspolitics pic.twitter.com/FVdNPQWWml
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 5, 2017
There will be consequences for CAF members who express intolerance while in – or out – of uniform: https://t.co/0GlW85XsOv
— Harjit Sajjan (@HarjitSajjan) July 4, 2017
And:
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Wow, among other things. Now, it’s back to work in the writing shed!
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