Scheer Smear

Vincent J. Curtis

24 Apr 2019

News Item: Canada, allies disagree over white supremacy at G7 meeting in France.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is laying the groundwork for the fall election campaign.  He’s planning to smear Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer with white supremacy and al-rightism.  The disagreement between Canada and her allies is over their reluctance to get involved in the Canadian election.

Progressivism has declared white supremacism and the alt-right as morally beyond the pale, as being  modern forms of the Ku Klux Klan.  White supremacism and the alt-right arose as a hostile reaction against the excesses of progressivism, particularly political correctness run amuck, and of the failure of traditional conservativism to combat those excesses.  President Donald Trump is something of a darling of the alt-right because he doesn’t back down.  He fiercely counterattacks and is not intimidated by political correctness, the handmaiden of progressivism.

Declaring its opponents to be morally beyond the pale is a standard tactic of progressivism.  It is a straight smear and requires no debate or explanation.  The forthcoming question will be how effective the smear against Scheer will be.  Scheer will be called upon to make ritual denunciation of white supremacism and the alt-right as if he were in a Maoist re-education camp.  If the CBC take up the charge, as they probably will, Scheer will be either thrown on the defensive or look weak and sleazy trying avoid being forced into the Kabuki ritual.

This whole moral gambit is ridiculous and a charade.  Everyone under the Canadian Charter if Rights and Freedoms is guaranteed the right to freedom of thought and expression – particularly thought and expression that is said to be beyond the moral pale.  (Popular speech needs no protection)  In short, the bona fides of the Liberal party to call itself “liberal” is called into question by challenging on moral grounds the right to express certain thoughts.  Politically incorrect thoughts.

But the Liberal party isn’t “liberal” anymore; it’s becoming totalitarian.
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