It would seem inevitable in an era of the 24/7 news cycle, that the entire system will shudder and implode in a fit of unintentional parody as live media strains to maintain relevancy and audience interest. The signs of that collapse, at least as far as the mainstream media is concerned, is increasingly evident — because the liberals making the headlines aren’t only missing the comedy, they don’t even know that they are the joke.
Witness the continued absurdity of micromanaging sexuality. Even as Donald Trump attempts to inject some level of insanity into the policy process by banning transgenders from the military, the nonsense has spiralled out of control in Canada, where even the LGBTQ2 abbreviation is increasingly perceived by social reengineering idiots as inadequate for the task.
The former president of the Liberal Party of Canada was recently on Tucker Carlson Live to discuss the latest “acronym” to represent non-heterosexuals, LGGBDTTTIQQAAPP. I will not bother translating nor attempting to differentiate between the letters because this assembly might just as well be the result of an accidental alphabet soup spill as the consequence of a rational attempt at defining sexual tastes.
Of course Carlson got the joke. Unfortunately, his guest, Stephen LeDrew did not — although he was beginning to demonstrate moments of clarity as the dialogue between the two progressed. LeDrew apparently experienced a political revelation in the midst of the conversation as he admitted that the term “two-spirited” is just a lot of blather.
“Two-spirit sounds like there’s someone they don’t know whether they are fish or fowl, they don’t know whether they are frick or frack — so they’re clearly confused,” LeDrew said.
Not exactly liberal orthodoxy — especially in Canada.
Interestingly, LeDrew was suspended as a news commentator from Canadian network CTV: not for this isolated incidence of clarity but because he had failed to seek and obtain permission from his employers before making the appearance on Fox News, a network that is both strange and ominous to Canadian liberals who seemingly cannot understand how opinions so diametrically different from their own could possibly be aired in a democracy.
Carlson wanted LeDrew to make another appearance this week but was informed that he would be fired if he set foot in the Fox studio again. Apparently, when you ask permission from CTV to comment on Fox, the answer is invariably “no.”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was undoubtedly shocked to see the former president of his party on Fox. Trudeau of course has been pandering to his LGBT supporters of late, issuing apologies, promising to expunge criminal records and offering “compensation” money. Trudeau issued the formal apology in the House of Commons, repeatedly pausing in his speech to dab his eyes and compose himself as he was overcome with emotion and tears, describing largely how gay men in the 1950s and 60s were often tossed from the military or bureaucracy for their homosexuality.
You would think he was exposing the Holocaust or describing one of Stalin’s blood purges.
But even as Trudeau was expressing historic remorse to the LGBT community, he was doing some favors for the Muslim vote that he courts with such passion and frequency. Trudeau ordered the RCMP to destroy thousands of files documenting the opinions of many of the illegal refugees that had streamed across the New York-Quebec border last summer. Police had quizzed the Islamic asylum seekers about their opinions on women’s rights and homosexuality and the answers did not always correspond well with Trudeau’s vision of Canada.
Like his ideological twin Barack Obama, Trudeau has extreme difficulty using the term “radical Islamic extremist.” He was horrified when the previous Conservative government identified female genital mutilation as “barbaric” and included that description in the Canadian citizenship guide. Trudeau’s immigration department is busy right now having those offending words removed from the text.
Just as they have at academic institutions across North America, political liberals are increasingly concerned with not just controlling the narrative but writing it — even if the story ceases to make any sense. Free speech is a highly flexible term and for that speech to be free it most also be inoffensive to liberals. It may not always configure very well and it may frequently appear like self-parody, but we are expected to acknowledge its beauty and truth nonetheless.