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Advocate for public art.

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@Z0G_OTTAWA @kinsellawarren Saying the evidence is clear means shit

If you spend your time attacking Kinsella, and you haven’t even read his book you can GFY

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@junonewscom Would it be racist to have lower expectations and excuse this behaviour? I accuse our government of racist infantilizing of new Canadians to shore up the voting base by handling groups with kid gloves.

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@cbcwatcher @jonkay BREAKING: Canada Immigration is reportedly adding “humanities professor” to the criteria for refugee protection. Under the change, academics facing ideological disagreement, criticism or an unfriendly campus environment could potentially seek refugee status in Canada

[Conrad Black @ConradMBlack]

Regrettably, an exchange on social media between two former CBC journalists, Keith Boag and Travis Dhanraj, was inflicted upon me today and it perfectly captures the invasive rot afflicting and spreading forth from the CBC's newsroom and college campuses into the collective consciousness of our society.

For reference, Mr. Dhanraj was given the high jump from the CBC last year when he attempted to gently nudge that organization in the direction of diversity of opinion. Mr. Boag, on the other hand, was a CBC lifer, retiring after 35 years of blissful ignorance to any opinion outside the CBC's ideological monoculture. The exchange comes within the context of a recent revelation (by Warren Kinsella) that the CBC’s senior director of journalistic standards was demanding avoidance of the t-word in describing the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Mr. Boag seems to be defending this position by categorizing 9/11 as a run-of-the-mill "attack on civilians for political purposes,” giving several other examples to imply there is no clear distinction between any instance of civilians being killed in pursuit of some political purpose. By implication, Osama bin Laden and Nelson Mandela (an implication Boag made explicitly in a subsequent exchange with Ezra Levant) are morally equivalent; they are either both terrorists or neither are. It is not a serious position. It is moral illiteracy formatted into the CBC's perverse style guide. Sadly, the idea is not original, or unique. In fact, it is the pervasive view on campuses and among large swathes of the Canadian media landscape. It is also very dangerous, and it needs to be answered.

Mr. Boag's position is bunk. If the “political purpose” in question is to kill and terrorize civilians in the service of global jihad or the extermination of a people, it belongs in a distinct category. That was 9/11. That was October 7. That was the Holocaust. These acts were genocidally motivated and carried out by groups that would never accept any peaceful resolution.

On the other hand, using decisive force to destroy war criminals who will never make peace, belongs in a completely different category. It is not terrorism. Israel’s campaign to destroy Hamas is a righteous cause. Israel is not only within its rights, but morally obligated to uproot the terrorist apparatus that hides behind its own population. And Israel should be lauded for the strategically disadvantageous lengths it has gone to limit Palestinian casualties, even while Hamas has tried to maximize them. Accusing Israel of genocide is either credulous stupidity or intellectually flaccid anti-Semitism attempting to disguise itself in a threadbare cloak of righteousness.

The atomic bomb was developed by the Allies and used to save lives and compel a surrender that would not otherwise have come. One may argue, and I would agree, that a demonstration on a remote island, a sort of nuclear warning shot, might have been preferable. Likewise, using another of Boag's examples, one could argue the ANC should have continued with their Gandhi-inspired peaceful protest movement even after the Sharpeville massacre. The fact is, no act of violence toward civilians, whether in pursuit of a greater good or not, should be whitewashed. But nor should they all be grouped lazily together, as Boag attempts to do, as if genocide and global domination were indistinguishable from self-defense or peace-through-strength. As if they can all be neatly filed away as “political reasons.”

After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States did not proceed to conquer the world, though it could have with a four-year monopoly on nuclear weapons. It used it geostrategic leverage to rebuild Europe and Japan, establish the United Nations — which, believe it or not, was once a righteous and laudable organization — and strive for peace. Had the Nazis or Imperial Japan developed nuclear weapons first, no sane person believes they would have pursued the same strategy.

I should not unfairly single out Mr. Boag, as his perspective is plagiarized from an intellectually and historically illiterate world view that has been building up steam for 30 years. It is a view that dispenses with the indispensable distinction between good and evil. It is not moral seriousness. It is relativism, and it is contemptible. This mass amnesia about who the forces of good in the world are, and who the forces of evil are, is a serious problem. That this worldview has captured the CBC and so many North American campuses is not surprising, but it is a genuine cause for concern. The West has ceded too much of, and must reclaim, the moral high ground.

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@MandaMurr @kinsellawarren Ask yourself why you came here to fight whatever fight this is.

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@MandaMurr @kinsellawarren Hey lady!

The book is also available in audio format

https://t.co/jf47MyQQUX

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I contacted CBC spokespeople and asked why terrorism was no longer terrorism at the public broadcaster.
The reply: they prefer to use “terrorist” and “terrorism” only with attribution. A longstanding practice, they said, shared by other outlets.
Just because others do it doesn’t make it right.
https://t.co/gHUzAGtD9w

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The CBC’s big lie: people noticed
https://t.co/Akl78ThyA9

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@scoopercooper @cbcwatcher Boag and anyone who wants to stay in the good graces of the CBC for their careers spout ‘alternative facts’. They finally found a line of resistance.

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@shed_some_light @RachaelThomasAB You are so far invested in your identity you would excuse anything. Looking at your profile - another Jew Hating Islamic regime apologist.

[Ben Mulroney @BenMulroney]

Bill, I’m perfectly capable of reading and understanding the CBC’s logic. The problem is that what occurred on 911 is the textbook definition of “terrorism“. And I have a problem with a news organization not using terms that apply to situations. If the CBC is unwilling to call 911 terrorism without the cover of an expert as a hedge, I question their values, their perspective and their use of 1.6 billion of taxpayer dollars. You are free to have a different opinion, of course. Have a great night.

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@BillDinYEG @BenMulroney This Orwellian project of changing reality for the brainwashed new generation scares the f out of me. I’m glad you are foolish enough to start your post with an ad hominem and show your credibility.

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@BarbaraRKay @CBCNews Changing the conductor doesn’t change the sheet music or the Orchestra.

We need the prominent journalists at CBC to stand up against this, show some moral courage.

The Orchestra hasn’t spoken up yet, either it’s approval or cowardice. @CBCNews #cdnpoli

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@Allyjvqi @BananaKingonX Actually church burnings are decreasing a bit.

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.@AndrewChangCBC will you state for the record whether you believe the events that happened on 911 were a terrorist attack?

#cdnpoli

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@ChantalHbert do you disagree that the events on 911 were a terrorist attack? #cdnpoli @CBCNews #Trump

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@RosieBarton Rosemary! Do you think the events on 9/11 were a terrorist attack?

@CBCNews #cdnpoli

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I’d say write your MP. Complain to CBC.

But really we know it’s over.

They don’t care. We’re ‘cooked’ as they say nowadays.

I think we’ll have to hit rock bottom

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CBC defends memo telling reporters to avoid the 9/11 terrorism label | Fox News https://t.co/nXVIsHK9ct

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@TFarhud67647 @kinsellawarren @CBCNews @nypost The US may seem nonchalant or at least quiet about the fall of Canada to WEF, China and the Brookfield oligarchy but they are no doubt prepared and ready to defend their hegemony that used to prop up Canada and the west. Maybe without us but defend it nevertheless.

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@kinsellawarren @CBCNews @nypost ‘..going to cause @CBCNews a lot of pain.’

Accountability and shame do not exist under this regime.