As IF Times

Source: Stephen LeDrew, CP24 part ways after suspension, Bell Media confirms | Toronto Star

Yet again, in the ‘you can’t make this up’ category, we have this little news item that appeared recently.

The background story is that  Stephen LeDrew was a guest on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson show to talk about the adoption of a new policy on the part of the Canadian Federal government with regard to inclusiveness. As the article points out, LeDrew is not just some random person offering his own opinion.  He was once the president of the Liberal Party of Canada, widely proclaimed as the font of  political inclusiveness and correctness of all kinds.    Some levity was made of the lengthy acronym for the community affected, which may as well have been entered by monkeys pressing a keyboard randomly.

When LeDrew was pressed to list the people represented by the string of letters, he could not identify them beyond the well known LGBT part, but insisted that it was all about inclusivity.  Then, in the classic condescending Canadian fashion, he reminded his host that unlike Americans, Canadians were much more tolerant of differences of thought and opinion.  Uh huh.

Despite this defense of Canada’s tolerant society, days later, LeDrew was dismissed from his position at Bell Media, not for his opinion, but for the fact that he dared to appear on FOX NEWS! 

Even LeDrew was bemused by the experience.  This would be like Oprah being denied access to a Weight Watchers meeting for being too heavy. Welcome to the world of Canadian news, where there may be 3 major news outlets, but they are comparable to ice cream stores that claim to offer all flavors…as long as it’s vanilla.  It’s  reminiscent of a scene from the 1983 film Yellowbeard in which a blind man begs for some chicken from a Pirate and is instead given a loaf of bread.  The blind man is profusely joyful at receiving the ‘chicken’ and scurries away happily.

The Canadian media landscape is vastly different from the American one.  Dissenting voices from mainstream thought are not only small, they are disparagingly marginalized by the large outlets, run essentially by a very small cabal of owners.  We have yet to benefit from the renaissance in news dissemination that the Americans have experienced over the last 20 years.  Stephen LeDrew can now crow about how inclusive Canadian society is…but not including him.

Source: Ariana Grandes manager Scooter Braun: We cant allow terror to win after Manchester attack | Fox News

In the aftermath of the Manchester attacks, it was revealed that Ariana Grande has pledged to pay the funeral costs of all of the unfortunate victims.  This offer is no doubt a genuine gesture of heartfelt sympathy for those lost in the tragedy and not to be minimized in any way.

But this sincere act of kindness does nothing to address the possibility of this happening again and again as events of the years have proven.  In fact this gesture, while sincerely offered, is naïve and just papers over the obvious roots of the problem.  There is a war going on and it’s an asymmetrical one.  On the one side, we have committed and avowed militants who have publicly expressed their intents and deeds.  They are conspicuous in their activities and are allowed to hide in plain sight.  The other side, the victim side, has apologists who are apparently bewildered when these attacks take place even though mountains of evidence point like the bat signal in the night sky,  to only one perpetrator.

The on going tragedy is the expected drivel of political leaders who express as much concern for possible group vilification as remorse for the mounting numbers of innocents killed.  As has been pointed out earlier, some ‘leaders’ have declared that such events are to be expected in a modern city.  That such people can attain the votes of the electorate they are supposed to protect is the real human tragedy.  These ‘leaders’ and they proliferate in all western nations, consider victims as just the price to pay in order to maintain their own appearance of inclusion and tolerance.  It’s very much like spending someone else’s money to prove how generous you are…except in this case, other people’s lives are the currency.

It all sounds good, “we can’t allow terror to win”, but yes, in fact, terror will win if only one side has the paddle and the other responds each time with “thank you, may I have another?”  Entertainers like Ariana Grande, while sincere, are hopelessly naïve when it comes to the dynamics outside of their bubble world. Politicos are not naïve, they are informed ideologues who willfully sacrifice the security of their own people  There seems to be an endless amount of tolerance for politicos who will offer other people’s lives in exchange for some honor badge of political correctness.  Until that changes, it is a one sided war.