Greenfield: The Left Goes Full Orwell

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Greenfield: The Left Goes Full Orwell
March 7, 2022
Politichicks
Daniel Greenfield

“Freedom,” warned the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which is funded by the Trudeau government, is a word that has “become common among far-right groups.”

To prove its point, the CBC quoted Elisabeth Anker, a George Washington University prof, who claimed that freedom is a “slippery concept” and that those on the right want “violent” freedoms that reject being “bound by norms of equality” or “norms to remedy inequality.”

On, in other words, freedom from state coercion to create the ideal society of the state. ...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau argued that by using the Emergencies Act to suppress protests, he was actually doing what is “necessary to reinforce the principles, values, and institutions that keep all Canadians free.” Taking away the freedom to protest against his regime was actually keeping all Canadians free. 1984’s version of the same logic was a good deal pithier.

Long before the Freedom Convoy, media in this country had begun vocally insisting that Gov. Ron DeSantis was an “authoritarian” for refusing to impose onerous regulations on Floridians. ...

The underlying argument behind the spin is that collectivism trumps individual freedom. Postmodern American lefties, unlike their European counterparts, are more likely to disguise this argument in identity politics, claiming that state authority protects minorities, while individual freedom favors white men. Except that Biden and Trudeau happen to both be white men.

Using minorities as human shields for state authoritarianism is quickly becoming an old gag. ...

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[Kamaji]

That statement from the CBC is really, really scary.

[Fishrrman]

Kamaji wrote:
"That statement from the CBC is really, really scary."

Gettin' closer and closer to the Ministry of Truth all the time...

[andy58-in-nh]

That statement from the CBC is really, really scary.

Yes, it is. Or rather, it would be more so, if the central idea behind it had not already been normalized via endless news media repetition.

To the Left, "Freedom" is now nothing more than a code word used by the evil and the hateful.

To their poisoned minds this means anyone who proudly refutes the notion that equality of outcome in all things is the birthright of humanity, and that the foundational purpose of government is to ensure it, ultimately by means of force. 

They mean this as a calumny. But anyone who believes in Liberty should embrace it instead as a compliment. 

In all of human history, there has never any clearer evidence of the failure of the collectivist ideology than its irrepressible need to denigrate and destroy even the greatest of human achievements in the name of "equity", by which the Left means a forced leveling, a sameness, a uniformity of thought and ambition, and by extension, a denial of the divinely-inspired human spirit.

[Cyber Liberty]

Greenfield always shines.