Canada is going over the totalitarian cliff (and we’re not far behind).
Like him or hate him, this thread of tweets from Jordan Peterson should be a wakeup call as to the direction of Western Civilization:
BREAKING: the Ontario College of Psychologists @CPOntario has demanded that I submit myself to mandatory social-media communication retraining with their experts for, among other crimes, retweeting @PierrePoilievre and criticizing @JustinTrudeau and his political allies.
I have been accused of harming people (although none of the complainants involved in the current action were clients of mone, past or present, or en were even acquainted with any of my clients. …
We are now in a situation in Canada under @JustinTrudeau where practicing professionals can have their livelihoods and public reputations threatened in a very serious manner for agreeing with the Official Opposition and criticizing major government figures.
To modern progressives everything is political. Everything you value in life is another lever for them to force assent for the things that they value.
Those who support this shift — believing the new rules will only tangle bad people doing bad things — must try to objectively consider to important points:
- Eventually, the suppression will target something you value.
- Participants in oppressive movements always think they’re on the right side and justified for trampling boundaries.