A slow-burn bonfire of liberties

Worth Repeating by Melanie Phillips

As communism slowly crumbled, those on the far-Left who remained hostile towards western civilization found another way to realise their goal of bringing it down.

This was what might be called ‘cultural Marxism’. It was based on the understanding that what holds a society together are the pillars of its culture: the structures and institutions of education, family, law, media and religion. Transform the principles that these embody and you can thus destroy the society they have shaped.

The State in western liberal democracies, becomes a puppet of special interest groups, assuming thy have sufficient support. The far left has a number of themes: it's anti-Israel,anti-American, and anti-corporate culture. others have formed a coalition with the far left, in order to have their voice heard. This includes jack boot feminists, same sex individuals, and minorities such as the Canadian Islamic Congress. As the status quo was not and is not acceptable to them, they want change in order to gain a greater foothold in the society. Case in point is affirmative action, and the recent Ontario sex ed curriculum, which was planned in part by same sex groups.

it's about time Canadians woke up.

My father grew up in Germany during WW II. My grandfather was arrested by the Gestapo shortly before the war and fortunately was released without harm. He was a decorated WW I veteran who always referred to Hitler as the "Little Corporal". My father's take on it was that the only information available was Nazi propaganda unless you listened to the BBC for a counterpoint argument. The minute government starts to limit political speech is the beginning of the end for without robust uncensored debate all is lost. The reason any group tries to control the argument by restraining free speech is because they know their argument will not stand the test of the common man's common sense conclusions about the debate. It all boils down to the old adage, if it looks, acts and walks like a duck it is probably a duck. When people try to dress up a duck to look like an eagle when in reality it is a turkey they try to blind you so that you won't see it is a turkey. When that doesn't work they continue to work on your senses until you are either dead. give in to defeat or continue to fight the good fight until you have won. Which group do you fit in?

Britain, a silly little country. It’s what Canada wants to be when it grows up.

We've all learned our Eurocentric history, haven't we, as Canadian citizens. We all know the terrors visited upon the Africans, European Jews, and Aboriginals. What many of us fail to grasp is the social evolution that has taken place since. I would argue, and I have read it in a textbook in fact, that being openly bigoted went out of vogue post-WWII. It is no longer socially acceptable to call someone a n*gger in public without facing serious repercussions from your peers — as it should be! These peope are ostracized in modern Western society and that's as far as it needs to go.

So we are policing ourselves as a people. We know bigotry is wrong and we do not condone it in public. Why does the state feel it needs to place legislative repercussions on its citizens to combat a problem that I feel hardly exists. Racism as I've always learned it involves the institution. We cannot force individuals to be open-minded. Let them voice their bigoted opinions and face the real life consequences from their fellow man. It's already happening, has been happening, and will continue to happen.

Yes. Character and self-respect are built by overcoming obstacles on one's own, not running to snitch to the nearest commission.

The rankling of taunting and social ostracism can be a great motivator. It made me determined to learn such fluency in English that I would out do those who teased me.

My immigrant parents understood that their presence might threaten Canadians as they arrived at a time that jobs were scarce. They admitted to themselves that they might have resented immigrants coming to their own country under similar circumstances. For every unkind remark, there was someone neutral or even welcoming. That's all my parents needed. They bent down to a lifetime of hard and honest work and EARNED the rights of citizenship and people's good opinion.

The present policy of fanning resentments on the part of IMMIGRANTS makes absolutely no sense. If refugees, they should be grateful for safety alone as my parents were. If voluntary immigrants, you made a choice. Either way, you've won the lottery on arriving in Canada. The opportunity has been granted. What you make of it is up to you, not the responsibility of the Canadian taxpayer.