Peter Myers Digest: Canada to re-educate Jordan Peterson for ‘wrongthink’
(1) The Campaign to Re-Educate Jordan Peterson – WSJ
(2) Canada to re-educate Jordan Peterson for ‘wrongthink’
(3) Ontario College of Psychologists demands that Jordan Peterson do a course about social media etiquette
(4) Peterson says universities have been taken over by Woke Neo-Marxists
(5) A Trans World – Association of American Physicians & Surgeons
(6) Mother can ‘chemically castrate’ 7-year-old son after father loses court battle
(7) Russia’s gay propaganda law protects children from being taught that homosexuality is a norm
(8) Russian law is in response to the campaign mounted by the ‘gay international’
(1) The Campaign to Re-Educate Jordan Peterson – WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-quest-to-re-educate-jordan-peterson-11672854385
The Campaign to Re-Educate Jordan Peterson
For speaking his mind, the psychologist could lose his license.
Wall Street Journal
By The Editorial Board
Updated Jan. 4, 2023 1:55 pm ET
You would think Canadians had learned by now not to tell Jordan Peterson what to say. The psychology professor became an internet sensation in 2016 after arguing that Canadian legislation amounted to “compelled speech” on gender pronouns. Now the College of Psychologists of Ontario is demanding that Mr. Peterson acknowledge he “lacked professionalism” in public statements and undergo a “coaching program” of remedial education.
Maybe the new commissars missed Mr. Peterson’s videos praising Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the man who said: “Live not by lies.” Mr. Peterson won’t comply, and he says he’ll now face a disciplinary committee that could revoke his license to practice.
The College of Psychologists, the profession’s governing body in Ontario, appointed an investigator in March to examine complaints about Mr. Peterson’s comments on Twitter and the popular Joe Rogan podcast. On Nov. 22, the College’s panel released a decision. Per images provided by Mr. Peterson, the panel ruled: “The comments at issue appear to undermine the public trust in the profession as a whole, and raise questions about your ability to carry out your responsibilities as a psychologist.”
What are these comments? Calling Elliot Page, the transgender actor, by her former name, “Ellen,” and the pronoun “her,” on Twitter. Calling an adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a “prik.” A sarcastic crack at antigrowth environmentalists for not caring that their energy policies lead to more deaths of poor Third World children.
Calling a former client “vindictive.” Objecting to a Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover of a plus-size model: “Sorry. Not Beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that.” In Canada even offenses begin with “sorry.”
“The impact risk in this case is significant,” the panel found, because the comments “may cause harm.” It counseled Mr. Peterson that coaching would help “mitigate any risks to the public.” The College of Psychologists declined to comment on the case, citing confidentiality.
Mr. Peterson responded sensibly: “Who exactly was harmed, how, when, to what degree, and how was that harm measured”? He says there have been about a dozen formal complaints since 2017, each one demanding a formal reply. One complainant cited Mr. Peterson’s Twitter response to a critic worried about overpopulation: “You’re free to leave at any point.” Mr. Peterson thinks the investigations aren’t about mitigating harm but preventing free expression, and that “the process is the punishment,” giving online detractors an effective way to badger him.
Professional bodies are supposed to ensure that practitioners are competent, not enforce political orthodoxies or act as language police outside the office. But that’s the trend in Western medical associations and beyond. The Law Society of Ontario had pushed a mandatory diversity pledge for all lawyers until a members’ revolt took over the board and nixed the pledge in 2019. At the time, an Ontario lawyer objected to the “ever-expanding mission to socially engineer the profession.”
Sounds like an issue of id, ego and superego. You could ask a psychologist about it.
(2) Canada to re-educate Jordan Peterson for ‘wrongthink’
4 January 2023
Wokeism has destroyed Canada. We knew the situation was bad when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau froze the bank accounts of protesters in order to silence political action against his regime’s appalling abuses of human rights. It became unsalvageable when Trudeau followed up this behaviour by speaking about his love of China’s dictatorial powers over citizens.
Long gone are the days of suffocating niceness from our northern cousins. Now, professionals who disagree on social media with Canada’s ruling elite find themselves ruthlessly threatened by institutions that are meant to stand for liberty of thought.
That ‘stuffy’ and outdated value is scorned by the younger generation who prefer the comfort of ‘approved truth’ and safe nests feathered with media ‘consensus’.
While most Western regimes find themselves under attack from a mixture of neo-Marxism, eco-fascism, gender extremism, and whatever ‘ism’ TikTok culture involves – it is Canada that leads the way on policing ‘wrongthink’. They have readily embraced the insidious idea that the government and its bureaucracies have a right to ‘re-educate’ those who dissent.
In a series of tweets today, Dr Jordan Peterson reported his situation at the hands of these lunatics:
‘BREAKING: the Ontario College of Psychologists @CPOntario has demanded that I submit myself to mandatory social-media communication retraining with their experts for, among other crimes, retweeting @PierrePoilievre and criticising @JustinTrudeau and his political allies.
‘I am to take a course of such training (with reports documenting my “progress” or face an in-person tribunal and suspension of my right to operate as a licensed clinical psychologist.
‘About a dozen people from all over the world submitted complaints about my public statements on Twitter and [Joe] Rogan over a four year period (out of the 15 million who follow me on social media) claiming that I had “harmed” people (not them) with my views.
‘In its wisdom @CPOntario decided to pursue these complaints even though they could have dismissed them as vexatious.
‘I have been accused of harming people (although none of the complainants involved in the current action were clients of mine, past or present, or were even acquainted with any of my clients).
‘And even though many of them falsely claimed that they were or had been clients of mine and were allowed by @CPOntario to have their complaints investigated despite this falsehood.
‘We are now in a situation in Canada under @JustinTrudeau where practising professionals can have their livelihoods and public reputations threatened in a very serious manner for agreeing with the Official Opposition and criticising major government figures.
‘If I comply the terms of my re-education and my punishment will be announced publicly. I have already had the second most serious category of punishment levied against me and have been deemed a high risk to “re-offend”.
‘Canadians: your physicians, lawyers, psychologists, and other professionals are now so intimidated by their commissar overlords that they fear to tell you the truth. This means that your care and legal counsel has been rendered dangerously unreliable.
‘Ask Queen’s U law professor @PardyBruce if he concurs on the legal front.
‘To reiterate: I face public disgrace, mandatory political re-education, disciplinary hearing, and potential loss of my clinical licensing for agreeing with @PierrePolievre and criticising our standing PM @JustinTrudeau.
‘I am willing (if @SPOntario concurs, which they won’t) to make absolutely every word of all this fully public so that everyone can decide for themselves what is actually happening.
‘And to let the chips fall where they will in consequence.’
It’s music to the ears of the Left, whose publications have delighted in calling him ‘dangerous’. The idea that speech is harmful has been fashioned into a political stick with which to whack away legitimate opposition to the madhouse of Justin Trudeau’s regime of fear and control that was brazen enough to misuse emergency powers to protect his political reputation during Covid.
The simple truth is that Jordan Peterson is not afraid of the new Left. He has spent his life studying the mannerisms of authoritarian states and knows, acutely, that he is living in one during the scaffolding stage. This makes him an essential target that must be publicly burned at the stake or else opposition to Wokeism and other dogmatic policy will build.
During an interview in December of 2022, Jordan Peterson said:
‘When the pandemic emerged, the totalitarians acted first and they acted in a totalitarian way which is, “Well, why don’t we just lock everyone down?” Which is sort of the totalitarian answer to everything. And in our herd-like panic in the West, we immediately imitated them. That’s the spread of a pathogen too. It’s the spread of a totalitarian pathogen of ideas and that also shook us up terribly in the West.’
For more than a year, questioning the ‘science’ of Covid policy was considered a ‘threat’ to public health, dangerous, and outright banned on social media platforms. Those who questioned absurd health advice were turned into public enemies to be isolated from society. It is still disallowed for Australian health professionals to openly speak against Covid vaccines, even if they believe their patients are being harmed.
Controlling speech is what the worst regimes do, and yet Western leaders have increasingly sought to punish individuals for ‘wrongthink’ to the cheers of university students, who have been raised to hate any and all voices that speak to liberty. Conformity has replaced inquiry as the chief virtue of the cafe class.
Will Peterson’s academic peers stand shoulder to shoulder with him in defence of freedom of speech and thought – the foundation of their industry?
Or is academia too timid, corrupt, sickly, or comfortably drip-fed from Trudeau’s treasury to mount a rescue mission for Canada’s soul?
(3) Ontario College of Psychologists demands that Jordan Peterson do a course about social media etiquette
https://www.westernstandard.news/news/jordan-peterson-says-ontario-psychologist-regulator-requesting-he-do-social-media-course/article_f5e7aef4-8b9f-11ed-9106-675e956ec934.html
Jordan Peterson says Ontario psychologist regulator requesting he do social media course
By Jonathan Bradley Jan 3, 2023 16
Prominent Canadian psychologist and author Dr. Jordan Peterson said the College of Psychologists of Ontario (CPO) is demanding he do a course about social media etiquette.
“BREAKING: the Ontario College of Psychologists @CPOntario has demanded that I submit myself to mandatory social-media communication retraining with their experts for, among other crimes, retweeting @PierrePoilievre and criticizing @JustinTrudeau and his political allies,” said Peterson in a Tuesday tweet.
Peterson said he has been accused of harming people. He added none of the complainants are past or present clients or acquainted with any of them.
Peterson said he has to take social media training, with reports documenting his progress. If Peterson objects, he will face an in-person tribunal hearing and suspension of his right to practice as a licensed clinical psychologist.
About a dozen people from all over the world submitted complaints about his tweets and comments he made on The Joe Rogan Experience over four years, claiming they harmed people. He said the CPO decided to pursue these complaints even though they could have been dismissed as vexatious.
Peterson said Canada is now a place where “practicing professionals can have their livelihoods and public reputations threatened in a very serious manner for agreeing with the Official Opposition and criticizing major government figures.” The terms of his punishment will be announced publicly if he complies.
He went on to say he has the second most serious category of punishment levied against him and has been deemed high risk to reoffend.
He warned Canadians their doctors, lawyers, psychologists, and other professionals are “now so intimidated by their commissar overlords that they fear to tell you the truth.” This means Canadians’ care and legal counsel has been rendered unreliable.
Peterson reiterated he faces public disgrace, mandatory political re-education, a disciplinary hearing, and the potential loss of his licence for agreeing with Poilievre and disagreeing with Trudeau.
“I am willing (if @CPOntario concurs, which they won’t) to make absolutely every word of all this fully public so that everyone can decide for themselves what is actually happening,” he said.
“And to let the chips fall where they will in consequence.”
Peterson said in November had been welcomed back on Twitter.
“Thanks @elonmusk,” he said.
He shared the tweet with a photo of actor Jack Nicholson axing his way through the bathroom door in The Shining.
(4) Peterson says universities have been taken over by Woke Neo-Marxists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson
Academia and political correctness
Peterson suggests that universities are largely responsible for a wave of political correctness that has appeared in North America and Europe,[53] saying that he had watched the rise of political correctness on campuses since the early 1990s.[118] Peterson believes the humanities have become corrupt and less reliant on science, in particular sociology. He contends that “proper culture” has been undermined by “post-modernism and neo-Marxism.”[9]
Peterson’s critiques of political correctness range over issues such as postmodernism, postmodern feminism, white privilege, cultural appropriation, and environmentalism.[86] His social media presence has magnified the impact of these views; Simona Chiose of The Globe and Mail wrote that “few University of Toronto professors in the humanities and social sciences have enjoyed the global name recognition Prof. Peterson has won.”[53] Writing in the National Post, Chris Selley said that Peterson’s opponents had
“underestimated the fury being inspired by modern preoccupations like white privilege and cultural appropriation, and by the marginalization, shouting down or outright cancellation of other viewpoints in polite society’s institutions,”[119] while Tim Lott stated, in The Spectator, that Peterson became “an outspoken critic of mainstream academia.”[9] …
Peterson has used the terms “Cultural Marxism” and “postmodernism” interchangeably to describe the influence of postmodernism on North American humanities departments and he views postmodern philosophy as an offshoot or expression of neo-Marxism.[8][67][132][133][134] …
In 2018, he attracted considerable attention in the UK after a Channel 4 interview in which interviewer Cathy Newman’s manner of questioning on the topic of the gender pay gap was notable.[112][144] He disputed the contention that the disparity was solely due to sexual discrimination.[144][145][146]
Peterson believes that order is masculine and chaos is feminine, and that these are inherent to human existence.[14] To Peterson, culture is “symbolically, archetypally, mythically male,” while “chaos—the unknown—is symbolically associated with the feminine.” He has expressed that while it may be considered “unfortunate” that this is the case, any attempt to change or subvert these traits would result in a loss of humanity, saying,
“You know you can say, ‘Well isn’t it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine’—well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn’t matter because that is how it’s represented. … And there are reasons for it. You can’t change it. It’s not possible. This is underneath everything. If you change those basic categories, people wouldn’t be human anymore. … We wouldn’t be able to talk to these new creatures.”[14][147]
Peterson has said that “gay kids are being convinced they’re transsexual. Well that’s not so good for gay people, is it?” and that “there’s certainly a lot of confused adolescents who could be enticed into narcissistic abnormality as a consequence of attention-seeking.”[23]
On 27 September 2016, Peterson released the first installment of a three-part lecture video series, entitled “Professor against political correctness: Part I: Fear and the Law”.[20][148][52] In the video, he stated that he would not use the preferred gender pronouns of students and faculty, saying it fell under compelled speech, and announced his objection to the Canadian government’s Bill C-16, which proposed to add “gender identity or expression” as a prohibited ground of discrimination under the Canadian Human Rights Act, and to similarly expand the definitions of promoting genocide and publicly inciting hatred in the hate speech laws in Canada.[b][149][148][150]
Peterson stated that his objection to the bill was based on potential free-speech implications if the Criminal Code were amended, saying he could then be prosecuted under provincial human-rights laws if he refused to call a transgender student or faculty member by the individual’s preferred pronoun.[150][151] According to law professor Brenda Cossman and others, this interpretation of C-16 is mistaken, and the law does not criminalize misuse of pronouns,[151][152][153][8] though commercial litigator Jared Brown has described a scenario (albeit one he thinks unlikely) in which a person could end up in prison for contempt of court for persistently refusing to comply with a court order to refer to another person by their preferred gender pronouns.[154][i] […]
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(5) A Trans World – Association of American Physicians & Surgeons
DECEMBER 1, 2022
AAPS News December 2022 – A Trans World
Association of American Physicians & Surgeons
Volume 78, no. 12
“Orwellian” is an apt term to describe the total surveillance in our world. But the radical transformation from traditional culture and morality (“Victorianism”) to modernism began decades before Orwell. The starkest metaphor appeared in 1915 in one of the seminal works of the 20th century and Existentialism, Franz Kafka’s novella, “The Metamorphosis” (Die Verwandlung).
The unforgettable opening sentence is: “Gregor Samsa awakened one morning from troubled dreams to find himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic cockroach (Ungeziefer).
Kafka does not suggest how or why this could have happened. The absurdity is accepted matter-of-factly, as its effects are explored. Gregor gets a different perspective as he creeps along the ceiling upside down, and he can eat only spoiled food.
A more dramatic example of being trapped in the wrong body cannot be imagined. Gregor tries to hold on to aspects of his humanity as he adapts to his new form, and attempts to overcome alienation from his family, despite their “transphobia.”
Aside from the rare case of lycanthropy, in which people believe themselves to be animals (though not repulsive vermin), today’s epidemic of “wrong” bodies concerns human bodies of the “wrong” gender. This begs the question of what a human being “is” and how and why its essence gets attached to a body. It seems to be a radical extension of Cartesian mind-body dualism. How does science deal with this non-material entity? We dare not question how people, even babes in the womb, just “know.” …
The Transgender Agenda
So entrenched is transgenderism in established medicine that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) would not even allow the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine to set up an information booth at its annual conference. SEGM’s members object to the widespread use of “affirmative care” protocols, which frequently send young people along a path of rapid “transition” via hormone treatments and surgery (https://tinyurl.com/4ad323yn).
To help achieve the “Triple Aim” for sexual and gender minorities (SGMs), Michael Liu et al. of Harvard advocate requiring collection of SOGI (sexual orientation and gender identity) data in electronic records (NEJM 7/28/22). How many options would be needed? The application for San Francisco’s transgender guaranteed income suggests 97 gender options (omnigender, xenogender, waria, neutrois, …) and 19 sexual orientations (https://tinyurl.com/bddmvran).
Transgenderism is “a new ideology that bears all the force of an evangelizing religion, backed by activist billionaires, which has captured all the high ground in our culture,” writes John Zmirak. “We must think through clearly, even ruthlessly, the full implications of the dogmas taught by the transgenderist cult, which public school teachers are preaching to our children—and Democrats are enshrining into law” (https://tinyurl.com/3nhvus83).
An addition to the LGBTQ++ orientations, “minor-attracted person” (pedophile), is not only gaining prominence, but persons calling attention to it might be punished, as by being sued into bankruptcy, warns Tucker Carlson (https://tinyurl.com/9y736xe2).
NWO globalists are not concerned about the unhappiness of a few transgendered people. The LGBTQ++ movement helps prevent reproduction, and also undermines the traditional structure of society. It increases the number of souls “lost in the cosmos,” as Walker Percy might say. Perhaps most importantly, by requiring people to assent to and ultimately believe that one sex can be transitioned into another, they will accept any absurdity. The result is a society that is both Orwellian and Kafkaesque.
As O’Brien said in 1984, “In our world…we shall destroy—everything…. We have cut the links between child and parent…, man and woman…. There will be no art, no literature, no science.” …
(6) Mother can ‘chemically castrate’ 7-year-old son after father loses court battle
https://www.westernstandard.news/news/mother-can-chemically-castrate-7-year-old-son-after-father-loses-court-battle/article_67ae859e-8b96-11ed-a6f4-db0c748d9c06.html
By Christopher Oldcorn
Jan 3, 2023 14
A Texas father has lost custody of his seven-year-old son, which allows the mother to transition the child from male to female.
Jeff Younger lost a custody battle that went to the Texas Supreme Court. The child’s mother is Dr Anne Georgulas, who claimed the child James Younger identifies as a girl. Going by the name “Luna.”
Jeff disputed the mother’s interpretation of the facts and has battled in court to protect his son from the mother and others who “consider him a girl.”
In 2019, the story made headlines when he lost the joint custody of his son and full custody was given to the “gender-affirming” mother.
Georgulas asked the court to “force” Jeff to call their son by his new female name “Luna” and not allow any children around “Luna” who did not use the female name and female pronouns during the court battle.
“Signing Luna up as James for any activities or taking her as James or calling her James or using male pronouns related to Luna at any activities outside the home,” read Georgulas petition.
“Allowing the children to remain in the presence of anyone who is not calling Luna by her chosen name, ‘Luna,’ not using female pronouns to refer to her and otherwise not affirming Luna.”
Georgulas considered James a girl after he asked for a “girl’s toy” from McDonald’s, and wanted to be one of the female characters in Disney’s Frozen movie.
A GENecis clinic counsellor at the Children’s Hospital Center told Georgulas to “socially transition” James. Georgulas works at that hospital.
Jeff alleges his son identifies as a boy in his custody, even with feminine clothing in his son’s closet and does not ask to be called “Luna.”
“As always, Mr. Younger claimed that James presents himself as a boy at his house, even when he keeps feminine clothing in James’ closet as an option,” reported the Daily Texan.
Jeff petitioned the court to stop any transgender procedures that are defined as child abuse in Texas, which has laws against the medical gender transitioning of children and teens.
Jeff’s petition asked the court to stop any “transgender procedures deemed to be child abuse by official opinion of the Texas Attorney General.”
The Texas Supreme Court ruled Georgulas has full custody and can transition James to “Luna” without Jeff’s consent.
“The Supreme Court of Texas denied my Mandamus, effectively terminating my parental rights. My children are now subject to being chemically castrated in California. Texas is an empire of child abuse, led by Texas judges,” Jeff tweeted.
The mother can keep the child in California to transition as the state’s “gender-affirming healthcare” laws supersede other states.
Georgulas can now decide about “hormone suppression therapy, puberty-blocking drugs, and gender reassignment surgery” without Jeff’s consent or knowledge.
Jeff posted to Twitter that there is “nothing more to do” as there is no route forward to stop the transition of his son.
(7) Russia’s gay propaganda law protects children from being taught that homosexuality is a norm
http://www.ericwalberg.com/russia-ex-soviet/885-so-what-s-with-putin-s-anti-gay-law
So what’s with Putin’s anti-gay law?
Created: Thursday, 08 December 2022 22:30
Written by Eric Walberg
The Russian federal law “for the Purpose of Protecting Children from Information Advocating a Denial of Traditional Family Values”, also referred to in English-language media as Russia’s gay propaganda law, is intended to protect children from being taught that homosexuality is a norm in society, that it contradicts traditional family values. Hmm. Sounds okay. Gays find male-female sex disgusting, don’t reproduce, so they don’t qualify as traditional family. And is it really such a good idea to teach children that gay sex is just the same as male-female sex, equally deserving of respect? Equal before the law? Only a few decades ago, this would have been anathema, while Putin’s law would have been seen as American as apple pie, or dare I say, motherhood.
Russia weathered the noisy gay activists at the 2012 Olympics and the 2018 World Cup. But the gloves are off. This World Cup 2022 would have been a circus if Qatar hadn’t stared down the pink brigade. The antics that the various teams, the German in particular, got away with, were … silly, pathetic. None of them are ‘gay’. I don’t know about you, but I feel insulted when I’m being patronized. Au contraire, the gay mafia basks in the warmth of sexy footballers singing serenades to them.
The Russian law is clearly in response to the campaign mounted by the ‘gay international’ not only against Russia but against the world: to make gay rights a key part of all countries’ laws. Forget about trying to make people like gays. Just make sure the ‘gay international’ can police your country’s behaviour, and if it veers ever so slightly from the current gay lib(eration) agenda, then they can launch campaigns to defame anyone brave enough to voice a dissenting opinion. Did I hear SANCTIONS? The new favourite weapon wielded by the richest countries (who just happened to make their wealth on the backs of the world’s poor) against the backward deplorables of the world.
Some laws are more equal than others
Whoa! Laws are meant to make society work smoothly, which means people have to control their behaviour in public so as not to offend others. Whether in dress and acts, you should be mindful of others, try not to offend. This use of the law to force citizens to do things they don’t want to do leads to the opposite result. Or shuts down entire institutions. Jewish Yeshiva University in New York was ordered by a judge to allow YU Pride Alliance. The university decided to cancel all clubs. The (new reactionary) Supreme Court stepped in and overturned the lower court ruling, though Justice Sotomayor said the court would have more to say later. The liberal Clinton appointee will have her work cut out for her.
A (straight male) university student, Thomas Klocke, in the US was trolled by a gay classmate, trying at first to seduce him, but then just because he refused the advances. It all ended up on Facebook. The victim should have just punched the gay troller in the nose and told him to get lost, but that would make him the violent attacker and probably ruin his life. So he just posted some angry words. The tattletale gay ran to the dean and ratted on his classmate. The dean did the easiest thing, considering the gaylib campus morality police, and had poor Thomas sanctioned, accused of the new chief sin, homophobia. In desperation, Thomas committed suicide.* His family filed a lawsuit, but in May 2022, the judge dismissed the Klocke’s plea, saying suicide was just an unforseen event and the defendant’s carefully preserved emails were sufficient harm to punish Klocke. That he committed suicide was irrelevant.
No justice, no consequences for the gay stalker. Contrast this with the case of (gay male) Tyler Clementi, whose lovingly composed Wikipedia page pulls out all the stops. Clementi jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River at the age of 18, on September 22, 2010. Clementi’s roommate, Dharun Ravi, used a webcam on his dorm room computer and his hallmate Molly Wei’s computer to view and record Clementi kissing another man, and posting on Twitter. Molly Wei was let go for squealing on Ravi. After 5 years of court cases, appeals (surely costing $100,000s), Ravi spent 20 days in jail, was forced to do community service, but finally had remaining charges dropped, and mercifully was not deported to India.
Ellen DeGeneres described herself as devastated by Clementi’s death, that Something must be done. And the upshot? Did Klocke’s nameless gay accuser feel any remorse? Maybe, but gays notoriously despise ‘breeders’. It’s a victory to seduce one. Klocke’s family were doubly devastated, scorned by the merciless US legal system. Not even a bit of blood money to pay the bills.
Laws should help make social life run smoothing.. If the 5% of the population who call themselves sexual minorities insist on acting out their sexuality publicly, propositioning cute straight guys, this is offensive to the targets. It’s called sexual harassment. Is it wrong to ask people, all people, to respect others and not act out offensively in public? Is that so hard?
The come back is ‘you should learn to see gays as part of the norm.’ I.e, you should come to accept homosexuality as normal, acceptable, good. For all but the ‘collective West’, that is just not the case and never will be. The gaylibbers think they can conquer the world with their new ideology, much like communists a century ago thought they could conquer the world with their ideology. Despite the communist ideology being very attractive (bread, land, peace), they failed.
Alert to gaylibbers: believe what you like, but you live in a bubble. Just as the West’s sanctions against Russia have failed to destroy it, the extra bile heaped on Russia for the gay law is unlikely to do more than show the West as fanatical, captive of a sterile theory of sexuality, making life miserable for the norm.
And why do I think my position is nonnegotiable? As a Muslim, the only thing in the world that is nonnegotiable is the Quran. Or if you are a Catholic, Orthodox or evangelical Christian, or Orthodox Jew, your connection with God. Society’s mores change over time, but scripture should provide the basics that don’t change.
You don’t have to be religious to see the gaylib agenda is toxic. Douglas Murray, neocon Welsh wunderkind, is gay, but believes that homosexuality is an unstable component on which to base an individual identity and a hideously unstable way to try and base any form of group identity. In The Madness of Crowds, Murray defends voluntary conversion therapy, and asserts that homophobia has mostly been vanquished.
As Murray knows from personal experience, the main problem is with male-male (m-m) sex. In all three monotheisms, m-m sex is a sin. Homosexuals are expected to be celibate. That’s not very likely, given testosterone, so how do the monotheisms deal with it? Leviticus 18:22 most famously Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable. Punishment: death.
Jesus never referred to homosexual behaviour. There are at least three passages that refer to non-heterosexual sexual intercourse in the New Testament, all of which are found in Pauline epistles. Take Romans 1:26–27 For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error. Christianity was based on a new covenant with God, so you can argue that homosexuality is up for grabs, but that’s not how Paul and his successors saw it. And still see it. Punishment: depends, including death.
But a lot has happened in the last 2 millennia, including
*the Reformation and the rise of hundreds of Christian sects with their own ideas about a new covenant with God,
*the rapid industrialization and enrichment of the imperialist countries,
*the collapse of traditions, especially religion.
With the shocking decline of religion, the forbidden apple was ripe to be harvested.
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All roads lead to hedonism
Homosexuals traditionally are despised or at best ignored in society. So where did this fawning love-fest celebrating the ‘love that dares not speak its name’ come from? The 19th-20th cc provided a new level playing field called the factory. People became regimented, manipulated en masse to meet the needs of profit. At the same time, consumerism grew to provide demand for the many mass produced goods. Which replaced religion as the ideological glue holding people together. Now people are atomized, living in large cities, devoted to pleasure, more than 5% of whose residents are ‘gay’, as these men-men flocked to the cities.
By the 1950s, ‘gay’ became the nonpejorative compromise meme, a trendy term that replaced the 19th c ‘homosexual’ and the pre-19th c mary, fairy, pansy, fruit, bent, bugger, invert, pervert. I.e., in the past, there was no real attention directed at m-m sex. The maries were considered marginal and sinful, best ignored or mocked, like prostitutes or others with disabilities, be it humped back, Downs syndrome, autism, deaf-mute. Basically the sexual minorities slot was ‘other’. So if you had any sense, you lived out your fantasies quietly, on the margin, where you were less likely to be victimized.
The big event that launched gay liberation was WWII. when more than 70 million European and Americans men were forced to live in male-only company for up to 7 years. While sex was illegal and almost all abided by the law, the 5% who were gay were able to find each other and/or seduce shy, lonely straights into … mostly quick anonymous release, but occasionally more. Gay romance was born in the fox holes of the mass slaughter-fest.
The McCarthyite ’50s was a retrenchment, with teachers and other government officials purged if suspected of being gay, but the cat was out of the bag. And the 15,000 fired teachers were able to join the purged communists and ask for redress or at least respect. And, like the holocaust, where homosexuals were killed/ tortured along with Jews, there is now a religion of self-hate by nongays, nonJews, even German footballers. The communists just disappeared and no one mourns them.
But 1968, summer of love, led to 1969, summer of Stonewall riots and gay activism. And not just gays, but the more radical challenge to traditional morality, transgenders. People who insist they can magically change their sex, despite the overwhelming evidence that your birth as a male means male-for-life. Same for females, though, with clothes on, they can at least look like teenage boys.
Full civil rights were achieved easily in the 1970s, when gaylib was at its peak of public acting out, promoting promiscuity of all kinds as the new norm. For a minority to get legal recognition is of course good, but just being legal was not enough. Laws prohibiting discrimination against gays in any capacity and legislating gay marriage, were passed, famously forcing bakers out of business unless they would bake gay wedding cakes.
Again, laws are being wielded as weapons to victimize normal citizens in the interests of a tiny, shrill minority. Hm. Sounds like abuse. The abused turning into the abuser. Klocke’s tormentor turned into killer. And that sounds like Zionism, killing normal Palestinians, citizens in their homeland. And coincidentally Zionism and gaylib appeared on the world stage at the same time. And not surprisingly, Zionists are big on gaylib. Israel is the-only-democracy-in-the-Middle-East. the-gay-capital-of the-Middle-East. I.e., Israel is a US cultural dagger in the heart of the Arab world. And watch out Qatar! That means you too.
Which brings me to Islam. The Quran makes no direct mention of homosexuality. Like Jesus, the prophet Muhammad, channeling the word of God, also did not highlight m-m sex in the delineation of laws in Baqara or Nisaa. There is a prohibition of any sex outside marriage, which must be witnessed by four, and punishment as lashes for both guilty parties, but if they both repent and mend their ways, leave them alone: for, behold, God is an acceptor of repentance, a dispenser of grace. Nisaa 16. The plural ‘they’ is generally accepted as including homosexual relations.
Of course, all three monotheisms have Sodom and Gomorrah as the fire and brimstone spectacle of God’s wrath against … yes, male-male sex. Gaylib hermeneutics dismisses S&G as all about violence, not m-m sex. The logic goes
1) God makes some people gay/lesbian,
2) God is loving, therefore,
3) a loving God cannot proscribe all gay activity as in Leviticus.
Much the same logic that atheists use to dismiss religion:
1) God creates everything,
2) God is loving, therefore
3) a loving God cannot exist because there is so much evil in the world and people suffer needlessly.
Islam is much clearer and vaguer. S&G is like, really really bad. Why? Because the corruption of the Sodomites was soooo bad that even raping women was not enough kicks, they wanted the ultimate sin, rape those pretty male angels staying at Lot’s place. Get blasted, pin them down, and turn on. Of course they were drinking and probably smoking dope, but God saves the brimstone for the really really bad deeds. What is this but a description of the ‘collective West’ today, where gaylib rules the roost, with ‘pride’ flags fluttering at US embassies around the world, especially in countries where male-male sex is still a sin?**
So getting back to Putin. His law looks a bit like an act of desperation. But only in the eyes of gaylibbers. Two centuries of capitalism have led to this incredible hothouse beast, the gender fluid nonbinary human being who can be whatever ‘they’ want. And the rest of you breeders can shut up and accept us as your equal. Nongay Russians understand that they want traditional values. They had their revolution, their playing with ‘anything goes’ in the 1920s.
‘Anything goes’ proved to be a disaster and was rejected in the Soviet Union, but the West is determined to make Russia live the way the West wants, which includes children being taught they can be any sex they want, children sitting around a transwoman (or just crossdresser), sitting on her lap hearing gay-friendly children’s stories from adults, who are always right in a child’s eyes. This is a very short step away from pedophilia, and has already been quietly stopped in Toronto libraries and many cities in the US where it was happening without any authorization, any control.
In most of the world, homosexuality is now illegal and will remain that way. Before imperialism, it was not part of any pre-capitalist moral code (apart from Leviticus). Each society dealt with these outliers (if they existed at all in small tribal groups). Anthropologists have fun trying to impose their sexual politics on precapitalists with mixed success. And of course, now that gay is the law for these western anthropologists, their research will be slanted to include the current ‘gay is good’ agenda.
In the past, there was no need for laws to control the behaviour of such noncomformists. It was just frowned on, occasionally resulting in pogroms, sometimes in tandem with Jews, the other great outsider, despised for their insularity and strange customs, including usury, arguably a worse sin than even m-m sex. Such medieval lynching was not nice so laws were made for both gays and Jews. They both took the opportunity to push their agendas, LGBTQA and apartheid Israel.
The parallel between Jews and gays in their history as victim is strong. The sudden elevation of both outsider minorities to the heart of the ‘collective West’, i.e., imperialism, at the same time, is truly breathtaking. All the unpalatable customs must be celebrated. Grovel!
Resisting the moral morass
What can we do? Muslims living in nonMuslim countries like Canada should emigrate again, if the local laws make them violate their beliefs. For Muslim, that means avoiding drunken parties and being careful of who your friends are. In Quebec it’s much more difficult. Muslims are victimized if they try to wear hijab in public, are very upset, and considering moving. In Ontario, they vote blindly for Doug Ford, as he cleverly spoke out against the gaylib agenda in schools. That meant nothing in fact, but it helped reelect a truly vile politician. Gender politics is also a battleground in the US.
The personal has become very political, despite Pierre Elliot Trudeau’s insistence in 1967 that the government should get out of our bedrooms. I suspect that for most people who saw the Germans’ antics at the World Cup, their message backfired. It was obviously political and it was hypocritical to deny that. ‘Human rights’ is now just another term that has lost any meaning, like our vaunted freedom and democracy. Other than the right to live in peace, the right to your connection with God, there are no universals, no nonnegotiables in the dunya.
Putin is slow on confronting Israel’s racism, but he sure as hell is not going to let gaylib take over Russia. He decided to act to prevent the grooming of Russian children by sexual predators, who are 10% gay, double the 5% of the population that are gay. That the Russian law is seen as malevolent is a sign of how depraved our rulers, how depraved we have become.
And it’s not only Putin and Murray. In 2021, Hungary passed a law (157-1) taking more severe action against pedophile offenders and amending certain acts for the protection of children, and more to the point, since 2012,
*4% of Hungary’s GDP spent on family policy,
*lifetime tax exemption and student debt cancellation to mothers with three children,
*subsidies for families seeking to buy or build a house, three-year maternity leave, and loans for families that don’t have to be paid back once the third child is born.
*Abortion rates fell by 40% between 2010 and 2020
*significant increase in births of third children.
*marriage rate is up 102%, the divorce rate is down 24%, and
*abortions among married women have fallen from 45% to 23%.
Orban is a great pal of both Putin and Douglas Murray, and sees a return to family values, and reducing the presence of gaylib in Hungarian society, is the way to make life livable again. Amnesty International’s Aron Demeter said this move was “a worrying step back”. The EU is now blackmailing Hungary by withholding 8 billion euros till it smartens up. Ho hum.
The upshot: when the government leader makes a clear case for controlling the behaviour of m-m sex, the overwhelming majority agrees. But our media and liberal leaders, all children of the swinging ’60s, are all for the easy freedoms. Not freedoms in any real sense (work, food security, shelter, peace), but freedom to be dissolute, to not have families, to raise children in an uncharted gender-fluid world of 2 daddies. Free daycare, tax holidays for mothers? Forget it.
Only conservative Jews and Christians, and Muslims, still have a moral compass. That is not a tiny minority in the collective West. Given the chance, people will protect the Klockes from the promiscuous gay stalkers, not just the gay Clementis acting out in public and getting a Twitter outing. The gaylib war against religion will continue, but will fail, just as revised Christianity continues to lose its credibility by embracing the sin as well as the sinner.
Just as the Germans and other ‘collective West’ teams at the World Cup tried to score their gender-fluid points against Islam, Israeli sport commentators tried hard to show how the Arab world loves Jews. But when the real public were asked to say something, all the football fans in Qatar either told the Israelis to go to hell, or said a few words about football and then shouted ‘free Palestine’. If the pink press was there asking about gay rights, they would have been told by the Muslims more or less what I have said here. I can’t speak for the ‘collective West’ fans, as political correctness ties most tongues.
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*Klocke claimed that the gay student called him beautiful. Klocke then typed into his web browser, Stop, I’m straight. The gay student replied, I’m gay and then kept glancing at Klocke, who eventually got up and moved seats. The stalker persisted, but it was Klocke who was disciplined for allegedly harassing a gay student.
**That evangelical missionaries are subverting the US freedom mission by teaching the Bible to friendly natives goes unnoticed.
(8) Russian law is in response to the campaign mounted by the ‘gay international’
From: Eric Walberg <walberg2002@yahoo.com>
Subject: So what’s with Putin’s anti-gay law?
The Russian law is clearly in response to the campaign mounted by the ‘gay international’ not only against Russia but against the world: to make gay rights a key part of all countries’ laws. Forget about trying to make people like gays. Just make sure the ‘gay international’ can police your country’s behaviour.
http://www.ericwalberg.com/russia-ex-soviet/885-so-what-s-with-putin-s-anti-gay-law
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Peter Myers