Unapologetically Totalitarian

Apparently the American Left (of which I am a part) is becoming more totalitarian every day, according to David Limbaugh (Rush Limbaugh's "smarter" brother).  Amazing how that works with us holding one house of congress.   

But let's look at the three sources that he spent literally minutes investigating (he admits as much).  First of all, screenings of Jordan Peterson's latest movie have been cancelled in three cities - Toronto, Brooklyn and Portland because of leftist criticism.  Well those are three pretty liberal cities - should the movie theaters have been required to show a movie they didn't think would attract much of an audience?  Apparently so. 

For the record this goes back to a Canadian rule (An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (Bill C-16, 2016)) which seemingly would require people to not deliberately misgender people - i.e. if someone identifies as a female you shouldn't keep calling them with male pronouns/discriptors.  It's basically considering that a form of harassment - but as is typical for the Limbaugh Clan, he's fine with harassing liberals or people the Left doesn't see as people.  What really matters is protecting the right of Peterson to misgender people as he sees fit. 

There was also an incident involving a teachers assistant showing part of Peterson's lecture to a college class and being reprimanded for doing so - that seems to cross a line to me, and the university has since seemed to back away from that initial decision. 

But the core of it seems to be this - if you are calling people by the wrong gender maliciously to harass than maybe stop doing that. 

Limbaugh doesn't seem that interested in his other two examples.  One is Presidential Candidate Kamela Harris suggesting that Trumps twitter account be taken off line.  I don't think that was a very wise thing to argue, but I sort of see her point in some regards.  He has used his twitter very unwisely.   But I think that Warren is more correct that our goal needs to be to get Trump out of the White House. 

I could be wrong about this one though - it's not hard to imagine a scenario where Trump is going behind in some state so he tweets "West Dakota is trending towards my opponent because of corrupt voters.  I know West Dakota - and I know there are MANY FINE PEOPLE there who will not let this meddling in the election go UNCONTESTED."   Shortly there are people going to voting places to make sure that Trumps suspicions are dealt with. 

Also I know that West Dakota isn't real - made it up to make my point. 

The third one involves Beta O'Rourke's statement that religious institutions should lose their tax exempt status; a statement that nobody is taking seriously, but that Limbaugh is bring up to paint a picture.