My full speech at the @OxfordUnion debating whether the west is right to be suspicious of Islam.
I needed a security team to attend and we were spat at, bullied and heckled by a baying mob.
But I will not give up on free speech.
I will not submit.
To the Americans:
I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.
And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:
You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.
This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.
Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.
This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.
But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.
This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.
And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:
Thank God for the United States.
Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.
Long may your admirable country dominate the world.
Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.
May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.
Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.
Thank God for the USA.
Happy 250th.
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
This is because the anti-capitalist left is not actually against people being crazy rich. They're against certain types of people being crazy rich.
Artists and athletes make sense to them because they've played music and sports and because their success can be explained by "luck" and "talent". Messi's wealth is not offensive to them because they understand Messi is much better at football than they are.
But when it comes to business, the anti-capitalist leftist has no framework for understanding why Jeff Bezos might be super rich since 99% of them have never ever created a product, business or service that was of value to other people. They've never taken entrepreneurial risk. They've never employed people and felt the burden of responsibility that comes with that. They've never pick up a business and given it a play in the way they've picked up a ball or a guitar.
They *literally* don't understand wealth creation. They think there is a fixed amount of money and the only thing a business does is split it unfairly.
It's why they rage at Elon and other successful business leaders. Because they genuinely don't understand why they're wealthy.
Also, and this is just as important, athletes and artists are disproportionately young, attractive, "diverse", left wing etc. Business leaders are "evil" middle aged white men whose success offends the average anti-capitalist leftist because they don't understand a) what it is they do and b) that Elon Musk has the same talent advantage on them as Messi does, it's just harder to measure.
🚨Breaking: FBI had a mole deep inside Gavin Newsom’s inner circle.
Trusted Democratic ally Alexis Podesta (no relation to Tony and John Podesta), secretly wore a wire and recorded conversations as federal investigators probed corruption tied to the governor’s office.
This comes as Newsom’s former chief of staff faces serious charges, and the investigation continues to expand.
While California Democrats lecture the rest of the country about “democracy” and “rule of law,” their own inner circle is wired up by the feds.
Transparency for thee, but not for me?
The swamp protects its own… until it doesn’t.
What else is hiding in Newsom’s orbit?!? 🤔
I'm a lifelong Republican but I never believed the Democrats hated our country. I was wrong! They hate capitalism, balance of power, boarders, law and order, common sense and the Judeo Christian principles this country was founded on
Voters are frustrated, not crazy @A1Policy
The same flag that over a million men and women have laid down their lives for in order to earn the freedom you have today.
A truly disgusting individual.
Islam is not compatible with our American way of life. Sharia Law is against our Bill of Rights and against the Declaration of Human Rights.
Wake up now before America repeats the sickness that has infected the United Kingdom…
Translation: “Proud to pass a budget that gave me & my other leftist politicians a 177% pay raise for a ‘part time’ job, imposed massive carbon taxes on our energy bills AND the largest payroll tax increase in Virginia history while making Virginia LESS affordable”.