#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #CANADA #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Canada, Collectif Emma Goldman - Who cancel who? (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]

 Reading the columnists of the Quebecor newspapers day after day, one almost comes

to think that a mortal danger lurks in the Belle Province. No, it is not related
to the record heat impacts, to the many droughts that have caused huge forest
fires or to the fact that the COP 26 is going to give birth to a mouse. If you
are connected to social media or open the pages of a newspaper, you quickly
understand that the issues related to the environment are secondary and that the
real danger comes from the culture of cancellation, intersectional, those who
denounce the cultural reappropriation or the culture of rape; in short, wokes. It
is useful, it looks away from those in charge.

Until some time ago, opinion formers at Québécor used the social justice warrior
theme.or spoke of cultural Marxism, that popular conspiracy theory in
conservative and far-right circles that the Frankfurt School (1) and left-wing
political thought are at the basis of a conspiracy which aims to " destroy
Western culture "and the Christian religion. From this position, there is
subsequently only one step to be taken in order to adhere to the delusional
theory of the great replacement. This is what the great "boyfriend" of Bock-Côté,
Éric Zemmour, did not hesitate to do. Today, as the communist scarecrow has aged
a little badly and that the fact of evoking the red peril in front of adults and
toddlers no longer has the desired effect, we are being released a new catch-all
category.: the wokes.

But who claims to be a woke?

For our part, over the years, we have used our freedom of expression to heckle a
few soldiers during the war in Afghanistan, organize welcoming committees for
conservative politicians and businessmen, denounce a populist town hall. and
fundamentalist (Jean Tremblay), sensitizing companies on discriminatory remarks
made in garbage radios where they bought advertising, canceled several events
linked to the hateful extreme right. That must be enough to qualify as wokes
according to those who are nostalgic for the time when minorities and the
voiceless could not say anything. In addition, we wrote a text entitled:
Halloween party at UQAC: when the debate sows fear in Quebec. There is no doubt,
it is clear that we are wokes.

But the truth is that those who, day after day, harsh our ears with their
speeches on freedom of expression obviously speak of their freedom which must be
total and without limit whereas for others it is is different. Garbage radios hit
their detractors every day. They can even send their pack to pressure college
management to cancel a conference or pressure an employer to fire an activist.
The most violent animators even suggested that motorists run over the
demonstrators during the 2012 student strike or even hunt down cyclists.

For his part, the former mayor Jean Tremblay used public money to promote his
vision of secularism (the Universal Biblical Magna Carta) to then rebuff his
opponents and use an anonymous document that painted a truncated portrait and lie
of the movement against prayer at the town hall to better discredit them and
silence them. For more details on these stories, see the book we wrote: Fighting
the Far Right and Populism, The Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean Experience.

  "We couldn't have said anything!"

But behind this scarecrow wielded by the national-conservative elite, there is
reality. Who owns the major media outlets? Who can afford lawyers? Who holds
political and economic power? Who is systematically protected by the police?

We live in a so-called democratic society, but we spend most of our time in
places where we exercise little or no power and therefore our freedom of
expression remains restricted or non-existent.

On academic freedom

For a Lieutenant-Duval suspended by a university for having used the word "N",
how many teachers made the school journey difficult for students when they had
the misfortune of not being in their good graces? The reality is also the fact
that in educational institutions private companies can give their name to a
pavilion by lengthening the bundles of money and that they can also orient the
research work and the mission of these same ones. institutions. Ideas are also
deliberately excluded from the school curriculum, but we do not hear our
national-conservative elite and other useful idiots (we are not talking about the
newspaper) indignant in the name of freedom of expression. At the same time, in
Quebec,Noir Canada: Looting, Corruption and Crime in Africa ).

About freedom in business

The reality is that in companies, people in the upper echelons decide everything
from how to work, to what end, when to take a break, how to dress, what to say,
and if and what to do. they could, they would no doubt control our thoughts.

Unfortunately, it is even worse in non-union circles. Good luck to anyone who
simply wishes to see the so-called minimum labor standards applied, in
environments where sometimes a single word that does not suit management /
coordination can cost you your job. Yes, the employee has recourse (after 2 years
of continuous service), but it is often long and tedious. Some may retort that we
can always vote with our feet, but it is not always so easy to do when the
"bills" pile up at the end of the month. So many decide to shut it down and
swallow the pill.

The reality is also that in Quebec we are still being fired for union activity;
to hell with freedom of association. We remember the Walmart store in Jonquière,
but it also happens in small settings such as community organizations.

We could also say a lot about the rental housing industry where you are being
evicted with major renovations.

And now imagine a person who arrives in Quebec who does not know the laws of the
Belle Province and who is looking for a job and an apartment ...

You have to work at Quebecor to believe that it's the extreme left / woke and a
few destitute students who control everything.

1. Frankfurt School:

"Group of German intellectuals gathered around the Institut für Sozialforschung
in Frankfurt am Main and who have studied social and philosophical problems from
a Marxist perspective independent of the communist parties (Th. W. Adorno, H.
Marcuse, E. Fromm, W. Benjamin).

They met in Frankfurt from 1923 to 1934, then emigrated to the United States. In
the 1950s, the school came back to life in Frankfurt thanks to M. Horkheimer and
J. Habermas. " Larousse

by Collectif Emma Goldman

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