AntiFa, free speech, and Mark Bray

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"...there are gazillions of apparently sane people willing to take out six figures of debt they'll be paying off for decades for the privilege of being "taught" by the likes of Professor Bray."

see this is not a "fact", this is an opinion.

it is a sad and pathetic opinion.



Actually it is a "fact". (If Professor Bray is as he is being portrayed in this column/essay (and I suspect he is)), then the people who are paying to attend this college and have this person teach their "offspring" will have a debt to pay for the privilege. That is indeed factual. LOL
 

mentalfloss

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What complete garbage.

And this guy gets paid to write this shit? :lol:

"...there are gazillions of apparently sane people willing to take out six figures of debt they'll be paying off for decades for the privilege of being "taught" by the likes of Professor Bray."

see this is not a "fact", this is an opinion.

it is a sad and pathetic opinion.

Oh, but he's a genius don'tchaknow. :lol:
 

Danbones

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The Ironically Named Antifa or “Anti-Fascism” Is America’s new Ku Klux Klan

Before writing this up, I truly wanted to give the honor of the "new KKK" to the Black Lives Matter movement. As much as they like to cause riots, call for the death of policemen and women, and voice their hatred for white people, they were a strong contender for the title. But I give the high and glorious award of America's most hateful and fascist group to Antifa.

The ironically named Antifa or "Anit-Fascism" is a group of masked rioters bent to destroy and attack everything "fascist" about President Trump and any of his supporters (or conservatives in general for that matter). While disregarding their own fascist means their goal is to shut down everything in their way....
https://thelastgreatstand.com/2017/...or-anti-fascism-is-americas-new-ku-klux-klan/

 

Hoid

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Nobody denies climate change , .

Of course you do. You are the same people who didn't think leaded gas was bad and why get rid of it. Pollution control on cars? Also a waste of time. If it was up to you there wouldn't be any.

Been dealing with you my whole life. That's why you are so easy to ignore.
 

pgs

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Of course you do. You are the same people who didn't think leaded gas was bad and why get rid of it. Pollution control on cars? Also a waste of time. If it was up to you there wouldn't be any.

Been dealing with you my whole life. That's why you are so easy to ignore.
You know nothing . You never have known and you prove everyday that you don't know .
 

Hoid

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I know arguing with climate change deniers is a waste of time.
 

pgs

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Of course you do. You are the same people who didn't think leaded gas was bad and why get rid of it. Pollution control on cars? Also a waste of time. If it was up to you there wouldn't be any.

Been dealing with you my whole life. That's why you are so easy to ignore.
So We took lead and sulphur out of gasoline for climate change ? Good to know . I have been dealing with uninformed closed minded idealists like you and always notice you ignore anything that goes against your indoctrination . So of course it is easy for you to ignore .

I know arguing with climate change deniers is a waste of time.
You don't argue , you stick your fingers in your ears and go yyayayaya I don't hear you .

I know arguing with climate change deniers is a waste of time.
What is a climate denier ? One who doesn't believe in weather ? Climate denier , sheeesh .
 

pgs

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I am not going to argue about climate change.
This is a discussion forum after all . care to elaborate about the unseasonably cold weather hitting N.A. right now ? Record low temperatures . I know that is just weather , right ?
 

Hoid

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This is a discussion forum after all . care to elaborate about the unseasonably cold weather hitting N.A. right now ? Record low temperatures . I know that is just weather , right ?
and if there was "global warming" there wouldn't be unseasonably cold weather?
 

spilledthebeer

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Lol!

Mark Steyn and Ben Shapiro are among the very brightest commentators on the US political scene.

Steyn is actually Canadian.

If you can't read him, the flaw is yours, not his.

Actually- Steyn is South African originally and came to Canada long ago. At this point he is something of an international celebrity due to his highly skilled and articulate verbal skewering of LIE-beral hypocrites!
 

Hoid

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He attracts people who use the term "LIE-beral"

That alone disqualifies him from serious consideration.
 

spilledthebeer

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He attracts people who use the term "LIE-beral"

That alone disqualifies him from serious consideration.

Then if he is so easily dismissed then why are LIE-berals working so very hard to label him as an Islamophobe and ti use their M 103 "motion" as a legal club to SILENCE any critic of any LIE-beral policy?
Here is a nice little story detailing how LIE-berals plan to screw up Canada and run us ever deeper into debt while also BUYING immigrant votes! I hope Lorne Gunter does not mind me re-posting his wise column-along with some comments of my own in brackets):

Liberals' radical immigration changes. By Lorne Gunter , Edmonton Sun. First posted: Tuesday, February 09, 2016 06:23 PM EST | Updated: Tuesday, February 09, 2016 06:36 PM EST

Immigration Minister John McCallum updates the media on the Syrian refugees arriving in Canada, during a news conference, Wednesday, February 3, 2016 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Whenever I hear that the new federal Liberal government is preparing to undo a policy or law put in place by its Tory predecessors under Stephen Harper, I remember Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s boast on the day he and his cabinet were sworn in. Finally, he gloated, “we have our country back.”

Gag. As if Canada isn’t Canada without the Liberals in charge.

Nowhere is this pompous self-congratulation more evident than on immigration. The Liberals seem set to dismantle many of the former government’s attempts to make immigration match better with Canada’s economic needs and to ensure new Canadians integrate more fully into Canadian society.

The Liberals saw Tory initiatives – such as beefing up the citizenship exam – as too harsh, even racist (even though immigration levels remained the same). So “we’re going to be producing radical changes,” Immigration Minister John McCallum told The Hill Times last week.

Among the anticipated changes are two that don’t initially seem to go together, but actually do.

First, the Libs are going to do away with the detailed citizenship exam for all immigrants aged 14 to 64 in favour of an easier multiple-choice test for those 18 to 54.

Then – and this is the key change – they intend to do away with the requirement that newcomers be proficient in either official language, English or French.

(From this reduction in language skills we may easily guess that LIE-berals are DEDICATED to creating MORE Jobs for union teacher Hogs-these people happen to be the most dedicated and rabidly pro LIE-beral of all civil service Hogs! In the eyes of LIE-berals NO ENTITLEMENT is too good for such Hogs! And it doesnt hurt that they get to cuddle up to immigrants-with OUR MONEY!)

How do these seemingly unrelated “reforms” go together? Simple, together they make it much easier for the Liberals to admit more of the parents or even grandparents of new Canadians.

This is a reenergizing of the “family reunification” program brought in by the Liberals in a big way in the early 1980s, then continued with enthusiasm by the Mulroney Tories and the Chretien and Martin Liberals.

Before the early ‘80s, family-class immigrants (as opposed to economic-class immigrants) made up a tiny portion of Canada’s total annual intake. By the time the Harper government came in, by some calculations the family class made up nearly 45%.

(In other words people with NO qualifications to be successful Cdn citizens were routinely allowed in so they could `reunite` with family already here. SO WHAT that the family members had no language or job skills, had NO pension plans and often were only a few short months away from needing COSTLY medical treatment, and all too often the family PROMISE NOT to dump newly arrived relatives onto Cdn welfare was FORGOTTEN! So what that LIE-beral PALS faithfully promised to support hopeless relatives themselves-without them becoming a burden to Cdns-LIE-beral immigration judges were prepared to swallow ANY stupid story-just so long as it BOUGHT LIE-beral VOTES!)

There is nothing wrong granting entry to the moms, dads, grandparents or other family members of immigrants. It’s an understandable human instinct to want to have family close.

The problem is for taxpayers.

For the seven decades before the expansion of the family class, the average immigrant quickly became a net contributor to the Canadian economy. Within a decade (and certainly within the lifetime of new arrivals) they were contributing more in taxes and economic production than they were withdrawing in benefits.

But that changed after family reunification became a top priority of Ottawa’s immigration policy.

The lack of ability to speak either French or English makes it difficult for newcomers to find work, which increases the likelihood that immigrants of any age will end up on some form of social assistance.

There is also a greater chance newcomers will end up in language ghettos – insular communities of others who speak only their native tongue. That cuts down on their chance of integrating into our broader society.

Finally (and this is the Liberals’ apparent goal), it brings to Canada the aging parents and grandparents of new Canadians at precisely the time in their lives when they cost taxpayers the most for health care and seniors’ care.

Since these elderly relatives have made few if any economic or tax contributions to Canada, their arrival falls fully on Canadian taxpayers.

There’s nothing wrong with bringing older relatives, so long as they or their families – not Canadian taxpayers – foot the bill for the social services they consume.

But in the Canada that we “got back” when Trudeau took over, such thinking is considered mean-spirited and narrow-minded.

Expect to start shelling out lots more tax dollars to underwrite the Liberals’ generosity.