The “Racist” was Right

Hey peeps,

Gonzo here to do what I’ve been really interested in doing lately and that’s exposing the nonsensical direction that the once “intellectual” liberal left has chosen to advance in.  It may be an attempt to fight fire with fire, or to get down and dirty in the trenches with far-right antagonists.  Regardless, the side of the political spectrum that once touted truth seeking via evidence as it’s modus operandi has turned that strategy completely on it’s head, instead adopting a radicalized, emotion-driven, Tea-Party like tribalism as the new face of the left.

I consider myself a left-leaning centrist.  I agree with some views of the Right I.e. firearms legislation (in Canada), but when it comes to social issues I am easily without question on the left.

The latest victim of the virtue police (makes me think of the Care Bears except full of vitriol and unable to rationalize the issue at hand), is Conservative MP Derek Sloan.  According to liberals, Sloan is calling for the resignation of Dr. Theresa Tam because she’s Chinese Canadian and he’s a racist.  Here’s Sloan on Tam:

Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, has failed Canadians.

Dr. Tam must go! Canada must remain sovereign over decisions. The UN, the WHO, and Chinese Communist propaganda must never again have a say over Canada's public health!#cdnpolihttps://t.co/2u1JxCAdIV

— Derek Sloan (@DerekSloanCPC) April 21, 2020

Let’s take a look at Sloan’s critiques:

Late to institute travel bans:  I’d be surprised to find anyone who would disagree that we should’ve stopped travel sooner.

Masks:  The first message was that only N-95 masks could protect you from the virus and all other masks were useless.  Then they changed that message to wear whatever you can.

Focus on claim that it’s racist to acknowledge virus’ country of origin.  Typical Trudeau government grand-standing/virtue-signalling with emphasis on things that are slightly less important than others.  I.e.  The new lyrics to O’ Canada are more inclusive now and that’s great, but people are choosing between rent and groceries in Canada’s largest city.  That includes those groups that you wanted to feel included in the anthem because guess what, the anthem is symbolic of, and therefore less important than, all of the real aspects of Canadian life that they get excluded from.  Gestures may be acts but they’re not action.

Also, we have historically named diseases after their place of origin.  Here’s one of the few rational-thinking lefty’s still around to tell you about it:

Liberals are selective about when the rules that they make up apply.  For instance, it’s wrong to “fat-shame” although obesity is a serious pandemic in our country.  But it was perfectly acceptable to shame Rob Ford for his drug addiction.

Liberals:  “That’s not mental illness he’s dealing with through substance abuse, because we don’t like him.”

If you think there is much difference between crack addiction and sugar addiction then you’re misinformed about mental health, neurobiology, and you’re spiritually clumsy.

The Left will argue that the Rob Ford example is “whataboutism,” and therefore invalid, because it deflects from the truth of their hypocrisy.  For neither the left nor right is it about truth anymore, more so than it is about progressing their selfish agendas.  The argument isn’t some contest to be won, rather, it’s a vehicle for arriving at the truth, which is the foremost destination.

Tam and Trudeau parroting WHO:  WHO parroted Chinese misinformation in regards to no evidence of human to human transmission, when in fact, there was a memo from Chinese health officials directed to Chinese provincial leadership officials warning of human to human transmission prior to this tweet:

Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China🇨🇳. pic.twitter.com/Fnl5P877VG

— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) January 14, 2020

Liberals:  “Perhaps the WHO was unaware of the human to human transmission.”

“The officials said doctors in Taiwan had learned from their colleagues in mainland China that medical staff were falling ill from the as-yet unnamed coronavirus, a sign of human-to-human transmission that Taiwan says it passed on to the WHO and Chinese authorities on December 31. However, the WHO did not communicate the information with other nations.  China forbids international organizations of which it is a member, such as the WHO, from recognizing Taiwan as a member in its own right. Chinese health authorities confirmed human-to-human transmission of the coronavirus on January 20.” – https://www.nationalreview.com/news/taiwan-accuses-who-of-failing-to-heed-warning-of-coronavirus-human-to-human-transmission/

Here is the WHO’s official timeline of events, conveniently leaving out that they received information from Taiwan:

https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/08-04-2020-who-timeline—covid-19

Also, you’ve all seen it by now but here is the WHO’s blatant dismissal of Taiwan’s existence and that’s the bottom line because China said so:

Tam and Trudeau have left no footprints of their own in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic handling, rather they have jumped easily into the massive holes left by the WHO.

Video: Trudeau’s reliance on World Health Organization infantilizes Canadians

Liberals love to accuse people of being Xenophobic, Trans-phobic, Islam-phobic, all of the phobics often without merit.  They also love to point to someone’s career as why they are inept to have ideas about anything other than what they do professionally.  Just look at the comments section of Sloan’s tweet:

Conservative Leader Candidate Derek Sloan says he is “disgusted” with how Prime Minister Trudeau has handled the #COVID19 pandemic. You know what, Derek? I’m disgusted by your xenophobic rhetoric and outright conspiracy theory-pushing narrative in this video.

— Tyler Watt 🇨🇦 (@tylerwhat16) April 22, 2020

Amazing how many #CON men feel so threatened by an intelligent, well educated & successful woman like Dr. Tam.#CPC#cdnpoli

— Hope Aldridge (@HopeAldridge) April 22, 2020

You have a bachelor's degree in business and ran a furniture liquidation warehouse.

People with actual medical expertise and credentials are talking. Go and sit in the corner and maybe later you can sell a discounted couch.

— Jordan St.John (@saints_gambit) April 22, 2020

As far as Sloan goes, I’ve heard accusations of homophobia prior to this latest issue with Dr, Tam.  It may or may not be true.  I’m not going to look into it more because that’s not my purpose here.  However, if he is homophobic then he does not belong in office, especially if that ignorance and hate is driven by some religious affiliation.  That being said, homophobia doesn’t necessarily translate into racism, especially in relation to religious belief.  It’s likely that Sloan is a racist, but it’s also likely that he isn’t.  Breaking down his critiques of Dr. Tam I found no evidence of racist ideology, only accurate, criticisms founded in evidence.  None of the Liberal responses addressed any of his actual criticisms, instead, they jumped to the accusation of racism, THEY, immediately pointing to Dr. Tam’s Chinese ancestry as the reason Sloan wants her fired rather than the reasons he declared in his Twitter video.

I don’t know if liberals will ever find their way back to common-sense.  To be honest, the belief that they ever were what I thought they were may be where I’ve faltered.