Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️May 29, 2023

[thread 1/x] Jordan Peterson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson
2/x https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113771466329617887

* far-right psychologist/author/media commentator
* transphobic internet troll/conspiracy theorist
* superficially profound; widely discredited
* criticized for
"poisoning minds of so many influenceable people w. his
pseudo-intellectual/pseudoscientific drivel that's being
weaponized in right-wing assault on science/reason"

#CanPol #USpol #JordanPeterson #antiLGBT #transphobia #FarRight #disinformation #trolls

Jordan Peterson - Wikipedia

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 23, 2023

Addendum 2
Jordan Peterson

* notorious far right, populist, transphobic, pseudointellectual troll

https://persagen.com/docs/transphobia.html#jordan_peterson
https://persagen.com >> search" "jordan peterson"

Ontario court rules against Jordan Peterson, upholds social media training order
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/jordan-peterson-court-case-decision-1.6943845

#JordanPeterson #farRight #transphobia #FarRight #trolls #CultureWars #pseudointellectual #misogyny #ConspiracyTheorists #ClimateChangeDenial #neoconservatism #SocialMedia #influencers #YouTube

Transphobia

Transphobia is a collection of ideas and phenomena that encompass a range of negative attitudes, feelings or actions towards transgender people or transness in general. Transphobia can include fear, aversion, hatred, violence, anger, or discomfort felt or expressed towards people who do not conform to social gender expectations.

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 8, 2024

Supreme Court of Canada won't hear Jordan Peterson's social media training appeal
College of Psychologists of Ontario called commentator's social media posts 'degrading'
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/supreme-court-jordan-peterson-1.7288497

Top court nixes Jordan Peterson's appeal of professional college's remedial orders
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/top-court-nixes-jordan-peterson-s-appeal-of-professional-college-s-remedial-orders-1.6993185

#Canada #SupremeCourtOfCanada #JordanPeterson #transphobia #pseudointellecualism #ConpiracyTheorists #FarRight #conservatism #Muskism #Trumpism #pseudoscience #CultureWars #antiLGBT #SocialMedia #💩

Jordan Peterson agrees to social media coaching after Supreme Court declines free speech case | CBC News

Canada's top court has dismissed the latest attempt by polarizing psychologist Jordan Peterson to challenge an order directing him to either undergo social media training or risk losing his licence to practise.

CBC
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 15, 2024

[Canada] B.C. Conservative leader meets Jordan Peterson, praises Freedom Convoy accused
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-conservative-leader-meets-jordan-peterson-candidate-praises-freedom-convoy-accused-1.7002473

* leader of the B.C. Conservatives sat down w. Jordan Peterson for podcast interview
* controversial author and psychologist Peterson praised John Rustad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson

#Canada #JohnRustad #JordanPeterson #FarRight #RightWing #populism #CultureWars #EnablingFascism #ConspiracyTheorists #PseudoIntellectualism #antiLGBT #FreedomConvoy #homophobia #transphobia #disinformation

B.C. Conservative leader meets Jordan Peterson, candidate praises 'Freedom Convoy' accused

The leader of the B.C. Conservatives sat down with Jordan Peterson for a podcast interview Thursday.

British Columbia
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 19, 2024

Checked: B.C. Conservatives Claims about Trans People
Unpacking John Rustad’s talking points on gender-affirming care, SOGI, sports

* John Rustad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rustad

* comments on transgender people fact-checked
* potential impact as hateful incidents directed at trans people more common

Rustad’s Anti-SOGI Stance Blasted in Legislature
https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/10/04/Rustad-Anti-SOGI-Stance-Blasted-Legislature

https://xo.wtf/search?q=%22John+Rustad%22+transphobia

#BritishColumbia #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #SOGI #FarRight #homophobia #transphobia #disinformation

John Rustad - Wikipedia

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 22, 2024

B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad Not Aw Shucks Guy He Bills Himself As
https://vanramblings.com/bcpoli-b-c-conservative-leader-not-the-aw-shucks-guy-he-bills-himself-as

* climate change denying/transphobic leader of upstart B.C. Conservative party
* longtime Minister in Gordon Campbell/Christy Clark B.C. Liberal Party (BC United)

B.C. Conservative constit. exec. resigns over nominations
https://vancouversun.com/news/conservative-vernon-lumby-constituency-association-resigns-amid-plans-to-override-nomination-process

#BCPoli #BritishColumbia #politics #BCpolitics #BCConservatives #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #SOGI #FarRight #homophobia #transphobia #ClimateChangeDenial

#BCPoli | B.C. Conservative Leader Not the Aw Shucks Guy He Bills Himself As

John Rustad, the 'climate change denying' (transphobic) leader of the upstart B.C. Conservative party — destined to become, either, British Columbia's next Premier, or at the very least form the official Opposition in the next

VanRamblings
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 28, 2024

British Columbia political sewer 🪠
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113041505115856942

#Canada #BritishColumbia #BCUnited #BCLiberals

#BCconservatives #conservatism #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #SOGI #FarRight #homophobia #transphobia #disinformation #JordanPeterson #ChristianRight

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 29, 2024

Kevin Falcon Folds, and British Columbia Voters Face a Clear Choice
Despite past warnings about B.C. Conservatives’ extremism, B.C. United quits election & backs John Rustad’s party
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/08/28/Falcon-Folds-BC-Voters-Clear-Choice

#Canada #BCelection #BCPoli #BritishColumbia #politics #BCpolitics #BCUnited #BCLiberals #KevinFalcon #BCConservatives #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #SOGI #FarRight #RightWing #ChristianRight #education #populism #CultureWars #homophobia #transphobia #ClimateChangeDenial #disinformation

Falcon Folds, and BC Voters Face a Clear Choice | The Tyee

Despite past warnings about Conservatives’ extremism, BC United quits the election race and backs Rustad’s party.

The Tyee
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 29, 2024

B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad's Anti-Scientific Views on Climate Change
Rustad expelled f. BC Liberal Party in 2022 over views on climate science

* 2020: BC Liberals won 28 seats
* poll # plummeted after leader Kevin Falcon changed party name to BC United
* confused voters; surge in support for now five-seat BC Conservatives

#Canada #BritishColumbia #BCUnited #KevinFalcon #BCConservatives #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #homophobia #transphobia #ClimateChangeDenial #disinformation

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 29, 2024

B.C. United collapse hinged on 2 decisions
B.C. United suspends campaign, urges supporters to join w. B.C. Conservatives
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kevin-falcon-bc-united-post-mortem-1.7307831

*political scientists: Kevin Falcon's decision to boot John Rustad & changing party's name as reasons for party's collapse
* Falcon and Rustad pointedly rejected merger deal in 2024-May

#Canada #BritishColumbia #BCUnited #KevinFalcon #BCConservatives #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #transphobia #homophobia #SOGI #ClimateChangeDenial #disinformation

B.C. United's collapse hinged on 2 decisions, analysts say | CBC News

As many political watchers noted, Wednesday will likely go down as a monumental day in British Columbia politics — especially for the party formerly known as the B.C. Liberals.

CBC
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 29, 2024

Values We Really Care about Are on the Line
David Eby enters campaign mode
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/08/29/David-Eby-Interview

* Eby became premier on housing/health care/environment/public safety
* hard to see progress on long-term issues: takes time
* standard populist rhetoric f. opposition: gov. makes announcements/poor results

#Canada #BritishColumbia #NDP #DavidEby

#BCUnited #KevinFalcon #BCConservatives #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #transphobia #ClimateChangeDenial #disinformation #SOGI #populism #rhetoric

‘The Values We Really Care about Are on the Line’ | The Tyee

David Eby rolls into campaign mode. A Tyee Interview.

The Tyee
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 3, 2024

Kevin Falcon’s Defection a Threat to Democracy
BC United campaign folded under pressure f. business special interests trying to control election
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/09/03/Kevin-Falcon-Defection-Threat-Democracy

* Falcon shut down BC United campaign unilaterally w.o. warning 7 weeks before election

Inside United-Conservative deal reshaping B.C. political landscape
https://www.biv.com/news/commentary/rob-shaw-inside-the-united-conservative-deal-reshaping-bcs-political-landscape-9450635

Behind BC United Party’s surprise move to sit out election
https://web.archive.org/web/20240830233840/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-how-the-bc-united-party-came-apart-and-what-happen-next/

#BCUnited #KevinFalcon #capitalism

Why Kevin Falcon’s Defection Is a Threat to Democracy | The Tyee

BC United’s campaign folded under pressure from business special interests trying to control the election outcome.

The Tyee
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 19, 2024

[Canada] John Rustad’s Regressive Approach to Indigenous Rights contradictory & harmful
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/09/19/John-Rustad-Indigenous-Rights-Regressive-Approach

* First Nations Leadership Council
* blasted Conservative Party of BC Leader John Rustad for inflammatory/ignorant comments
* incl. racist stereotypes re: Indigenous people

https://www.bcafn.ca/sites/default/files/2024-09/2024Sept04_NR_FNLCConcernsRustadonPeterson.pdf

#Canada #BritishColumbia #BCUnited #BCLiberals
#BCconservatives #conservatism #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #SOGI #FarRight #homophobia #transphobia #disinformation #JordanPeterson #ChristianRight

Inside Rustad’s Regressive Approach to Indigenous Rights | The Tyee

It’s contradictory and harmful.

The Tyee
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 23, 2024

[Canada] BC Conservative Candidate Elenore Sturko Compared People Living in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside to Stray Animals
https://pressprogress.ca/bc-conservative-candidate-compared-people-living-in-vancouvers-downtown-eastside-to-stray-animals/

* candidate for BC Conservative Party
* compared people who use drugs to stray animals lost on the streets
* event @ Vancouver’s Freedom House
* far-right community space run by anti-vaccine activists

Elenore Sturko: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elenore_Sturko

#Canada #Vancouver #DTES
#BCconservatives #ElenoreSturko #JohnRustad #FarRight #homelessness #conservatism

BC Conservative Candidate Compared People Living in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside to Stray Animals

“If these were dogs and cats or pets, the SPCA would come and they would take the animals into care, adopt them out”

PressProgress
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

[Canada] What’s Pushing Eby to Change Positions?
Logic/risk to pivots on carbon tax, involuntary treatment
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/09/23/What-Pushing-Eby-Change-Positions

Comments:
1. I have a lot of respect for David Eby; zero for BC Conservatives/extremist John Rustad
2. leftist populist response to far-right conservative populism; two wrongs don't make a right

#Canada #BritishColumbia #politics #BCNDP #DavidEby

#BCConservatives #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #transphobia #ConspiracyTheorists #ClimateChangeDenial #disinformation

What’s Pushing Eby to Change His Positions? | The Tyee

There’s hard logic, and risk, to his pivots on the carbon tax and involuntary treatment, say experts.

The Tyee
Sep 23, 2024 at 2:21pmWeb
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 23, 2024

COMMENTARY: sources
https://persagen.org/docs/sources.html
https://persagen.org/docs/sources.html#ctv_news

* ALWAYS vet content: who/what/why/...
* CTV gen. reliable; conduit to more reliable Canadian Press
* h/e (critique): content gen. w/o source URLs

E.g: shoddy/negligent reporting re: pending elections:

B.C. crime/public safety incidents ahead of fall election
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/a-look-at-recent-b-c-crime-and-public-safety-incidents-ahead-of-fall-election-1.7048460

* cheap/irresponsible content - list of crimes: no rationale, references, statistics, discussion of trends

#CanadianPress #CTVnews #populism

Persagen.org: Notes on Sources

Comments on Persagen.org sources.

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 23, 2024

/1

That CTV/Canadian Press "article" (simply an unreferenced listing of crimes) is a disservice to their readers and the broader population, who need balanced reporting. It's lazy journalism, exemplified - no editorship whatsoever.

We expect/demand better: investigation, disclosure of sources / citations, links to main content sources, accountability, balanced reporting

@ctvnews | @ctvnews | @cdnpresspoli

#CTVnews #CanadianPress #LazyJournalism #accountability #reporting

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 23, 2024

Video shows B.C. Conservative Rustad saying he regrets getting 'so-called vaccine'
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/video-shows-b-c-conservative-rustad-saying-he-regrets-getting-so-called-vaccine-1.7048774

* NDP shared video of B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad saying he regrets getting "so-called vaccine" against COVID-19
* Rustad said vaccine mandates not about achieving herd immunity/stopping COVID-19
* were about "shaping opinion & control of the population"

#BCconservatives #conservatism #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #transphobia #disinformation #ConspiracyTheorists #antivaxx

Video shows B.C. Conservative Rustad saying he regrets getting 'so-called vaccine'

The NDP has shared a video of B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad saying he regrets getting the "so-called vaccine" against COVID-19.

British Columbia
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 24, 2024

BC Conservative leader John Rustad dodges vaccine questions; NDP alleges duplicity
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/bc-conservative-leader-dodges-vaccine-questions-as-ndp-alleges-duplicity-1.7049483

* eyebrow-raising YouTube video Rustad refused to discuss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE7ZIWASDUQ
* David Eby alleged Rustad was being two-faced with voters.
* Rustad says one thing in a meeting that's secret that he think won't get out, & he says another thing in public

#BCconservatives #conservatism #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #transphobia #disinformation #ConspiracyTheorists #antivaxx #duplicity

BC Conservative leader dodges vaccine questions as NDP alleges duplicity

On the first weekday of the official campaign period, the New Democrats went on the offensive against the BC Conservatives with an eyebrow-raising YouTube video the leader refused to discuss.

British Columbia
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 24, 2024

BC Conservative leader John Rustad pledges to shut down supervised consumption sites
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/bc-conservative-leader-pledges-to-shut-down-supervised-consumption-sites-1.7049474

[thread] safe injection, harm reduction
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112776892369819790

#Canada #Poilievre #conservatism #BC #BCconservatives #JohnRustad #populism #PublicHealth #addiction #HarmReduction #SupervisedInjection #ConspiracyTheorists #ClimateChangeDenial #transphobia #populism #duplicity #disinformation

BC Conservative leader pledges to shut down supervised consumption sites

BC Conservative leader John Rustad dropped a major policy plan Sunday, pledging to eliminate supervised drug consumption sites across B.C. and replace them with intake centres for treatment and recovery.

British Columbia
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 24, 2024

BC Conservative Leader John Rustad Warned Convoy Event That Kids Will Be Forced to Eat Bugs
Conspiratorial speech at far-right 2023 event
https://pressprogress.ca/bc-conservative-leader-john-rustad-warned-convoy-event-that-kids-will-be-forced-to-eat-bugs

[Canada] B.C. Conservative leader meets Jordan Peterson, praises Freedom Convoy accused
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112968510846662033

#Canada #JohnRustad #JordanPeterson #FarRight #RightWing #populism #CultureWars #EnablingFascism #ConspiracyTheorists #PseudoIntellectualism #antiLGBT #FreedomConvoy #homophobia #transphobia #disinformation

BC Conservative Leader John Rustad Warned Convoy Event That Kids Will Be Forced to ‘Eat Bugs’

Rustad delivered a conspiratorial speech at a far-right event in 2023 claiming children will be forced into eating bugs

PressProgress
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 18

Jordan Peterson’s Take on Bible as Bad as You’d Think
https://jacobin.com/2024/12/jordan-peterson-bible-conservatives-review

* rt-wing provocateur Jordan Peterson
* looks to extract existential/political lessons f. Old Testament
* far f. probing deep truths, it’s a shallow, self-serving exercise in culture war

Comment: transphobic pseudo-intellectual troll

#JordanPeterson #antiLGBT #homophobia #transphobia #farRight #disinformation #trolls
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #OpusDei #Christofascism #transgenocide
#CanPol #protofascism

Jordan Peterson’s Take on the Bible Is as Bad as You’d Think

In his latest book, right-wing provocateur Jordan Peterson looks to extract existential and political lessons from the Old Testament. Far from probing deep truths, it’s a shallow, self-serving exercise in culture war.

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 4

TBA-Sponsored Peterson Talk
https://pressprogress.ca/take-back-alberta-sponsored-jordan-peterson-talk-has-elections-albertas-attention

* Jordan Peterson: far-right transphobic troll
* Take Back Alberta: far-right election denial group
* far right propaganda/memes/tactics e.g. election "scrutineering"

#JordanPeterson #homophobia #transgenocide #transphobia #farRight #disinformation #trolls
#CanPol #TakeBackAlberta #TBA #electoralFraud #protofascism #DanielleSmith
#billionaires #PacificProsperityNetwork #ChipWilson #WealthTax

Take Back Alberta Sponsored Jordan Peterson Talk Has Elections Alberta’s Attention

The event may get disclosed as election advertising.

PressProgress
Show threadMamiyaMan 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Sep 24, 2024
@persagen Fuck that guy.
Show threadEd WiebeSep 23, 2024
@persagen These wrongs make a Right.
Show threadEd WiebeSep 23, 2024
@persagen The usual political cynicism is my guess.