Radical left-wing crybullies try to get a free-stage conference cancelled in British Columbia, and then they fail spectacularly. This is the third year of the conference, but this year the conference is very nearly sold out. Why? Because of left wing attempts to censor the speakers, including my friend Drea Humphrey.
00:00:00.000Radical left-wing cry-bullies try to get a free-stage conference cancelled in British Columbia, and then they fail spectacularly.
00:00:08.020I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
00:00:10.400Friends, do you know what the Streisand effect is?
00:00:31.160I'm sure you've heard the phrase used before, but do you know where it comes from?
00:00:34.720Let's go to Wikipedia, which is not always the most reliable of resources, but it's pretty fair this time around.
00:00:42.100So, the Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information.
00:00:53.600The effect is named for American singer and actress Barbara Streisand, whose attorney's attempt in 2003 to suppress the publication of a photograph showing her clifftop residence in Malibu,
00:01:06.680taken to document coastal erosion in California, inadvertently drew far greater attention to the previously obscure photograph.
00:01:14.900So, now you know what the Streisand effect is, and why it has that name, and why it seems to always be the case.
00:01:24.100When you try to censor something, that's when people have their attention drawn to it.
00:01:30.020When you try to censor me, that's why I get a little bit louder.
00:01:33.280The exact thing has happened in British Columbia at a conference called We Unify.
00:01:37.860This is the third year of the conference, but this year, the conference is very nearly sold out.
00:01:44.260Why? Because of left-wing attempts to censor the speakers, including my friend, Drea Humphrey, who joins me right now to discuss We Unify.
00:02:46.180People come together and talk about ways to improve Canada.
00:02:50.900And unlike the previous two years, where it went by at the Capitol without much backlash, if any,
00:02:59.220this time the forces, the Rainbow Mafia has come out and claimed it as a transphobic, hateful event, in particular, because of speakers like myself.
00:03:12.400Okay, well, they don't know what you're going to say.
00:03:38.140They actually have a campaign from a group called One Million Voices of Inclusion, and it's just called canceled conference.
00:03:45.680Like, there's no, that really isn't, and, you know, they're making themselves, you know, a victim in this situation when there has been no crime, and there is no indication that it was even going to focus on anything to do with LGBTQ.
00:04:14.040You know, a person trying to shop for belts and socks or something like that, and you're going to see Pride propaganda everywhere.
00:04:20.800So, I imagine it's going to come up, but it's certainly not the focus.
00:04:25.880Do these people understand that they are, like, it's impossible to parody them anymore.
00:04:31.040Like, I can't say, like, I can't even make fun of cancel culture anymore because every time I try to poke fun at them, they take that as, like, an inspiration to do the next dumb thing.
00:04:41.060It's a conference about censorship, and they're calling for you to be censored.
00:04:47.460For me, I think this speaks to how effective these gatherings really are, because after two years of it really not being on their radar, they're realizing, oh, shoot, they're having, like, reasonable conversations and advancing ideas and inspiring people.
00:05:29.960The main thing they're doing is focusing on this list of most dangerous speakers, and I think there's five names, and, of course, I made the list.
00:05:38.520The first time I saw the list come out by my name, it said that I was dangerous because I make a living off of glorifying my likes.
00:05:47.980And I was like, what does it even mean?
00:05:51.400I don't know what that means, and I was quite disappointed.
00:05:54.320If you're going to make up a lie about me, at least have something good.
00:05:57.100So they've switched it now to me being transphobic, and one of their activists who goes by, or maybe her name is May Monique May, or May Monique, they've even gone to a city council meeting.
00:06:13.340Granted, after Victoria said, hey, listen, this conference is taking place at the Victoria Convention Centre, and we are subject to the Constitution.
00:06:23.140People have the right to freely gather and express themselves.
00:06:27.160So that was good for Victoria because we've seen a different response to that in Quebec to the B.C. pastor who had just a worship convention going on.
00:06:37.000But in response to that, you had a couple of activists go to a council meeting, demanding that it be cancelled, and this Monique May went so far as to talk about my Kamloops documentary.
00:06:50.340Of course, she didn't actually explain what it was about.
00:06:52.760She didn't mention at all that it had anything to do with debunking the false claim that there had been 215 unmarked graves of children discovered there, which was never discovered.
00:07:03.500Instead, she said that it's denying residential schools.
00:07:07.100So they're really taking these cheap shots.
00:07:09.580What did seem or has been effective is there was supposed to be a dinner, sort of a pre-conference dinner that was supposed to take place at Victoria's, it's called the Union Club of B.C.
00:07:21.180And it's a really nice venue, and people are going to get together, and that has been cancelled.
00:07:29.860Apparently, there's another location for this.
00:07:31.760Of course, they're not announcing that location.
00:07:34.260And then the conference itself is continuing to go on as scheduled.
00:07:39.040Another name that they're going after in the list of five, which is quite shocking, is Zuby.
00:07:44.020And if you know anything about Zuby, he just, I've never met the guy, but he just seems like the nicest guy ever.
00:07:50.960He's very chill, very low-key, musician, podcaster, author, public speaker, very intelligent.
00:07:59.460And they're going after him, and it's just embarrassing.
00:08:02.720He's coming from the United States to actually host it.
00:08:05.420And as you know, everybody has eyes on Canada as an example of how far you can fall and where not to go.
00:08:12.600So there are some Americans that are invested in this and coming to, like Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Drew Pinsky, but they're really going after Zuby for some weird reason.
00:08:23.880You know, it's so strange because, like, I just made a note.
00:08:28.060Like, if I were on the left, if they were, like, you guys, your list of people to be canceled or, like, the five deadliest speakers, pretty diverse.
00:08:55.580And, you know, they're not getting the response that they want to get, of course, like I mentioned from the city.
00:09:02.780I also saw some Reddit chats about it, and I'll give you this to put on the screen here.
00:09:08.960But just as an example, and I'm seeing this happen all over social media with people who are trying to have it canceled and saying,
00:09:14.840sign our letter campaign, that's another thing they're doing, a letter campaign, where they want you sending the letter to the city council.
00:09:21.720And so you have this activist here who has basically put this out.
00:09:27.440Oh, my gosh, there's these transphobic speakers coming, and we have to have it canceled.
00:09:32.060And in the Reddit thread, people are responding to the spore man, and they're just saying,
00:10:14.160So the pendulum has definitely swung here.
00:10:18.220Things are changing, and people are realizing that the whole hijacked LGBTQ plus community, it's no longer what it was.
00:10:26.060It's not about equality, and that people who are saying very common sense things, like children shouldn't be able to mutilate and sterilize themselves, are not transphobes.
00:11:06.160But the rest of the speakers, are some of them being rattled, or are they more stalwart than ever that they're going to go to this conference and talk?
00:11:14.380I mean, I'm not organizing the conference.
00:11:16.440From what I know, there has been no rattling.
00:11:18.980I've asked for updates on, you know, now that the push to cancel it, what are the updates?
00:12:15.660Before, it would have just been informative and fun, and you get to see people who you don't normally get to see in Canada, which is great.
00:12:23.040But now, this is a rebellious act of opposition to cancel culture.
00:12:28.040How do people get tickets to see you speak?
00:12:31.260Well, my understanding is the tickets are almost sold out.
00:12:34.080Again, I'm not organizing it, and it's a pretty large venue.
00:13:02.200But I think everybody's just ready to push past that anyways and actually try to get some solutions for how to move forward in a better fashion for Canada.
00:13:54.720I think a lot of people have had enough.
00:13:59.200They are, by and large, accepting of sexual minorities, except insofar as—and I think this is where I'm at.
00:14:07.280I don't care what you do, but just don't make me care.
00:14:09.660And a lot of people are being tired of being made to care because they're tired of constantly being on guard for what's being pushed at their children.
00:14:18.760What sort of stories are you working on in the progressive hotbed of British Columbia right now?
00:14:26.680It's never-ending, and my stomach is churning each time because, of course, the tips that come in are related to children most of the time.
00:14:35.460That's where I think people have had enough.
00:14:38.760It's one thing to have to go into stores and see these things in the commercials.
00:14:43.500Or the other day I was watching YouTube makeup tutorials.
00:15:36.320And so, of course, some people are like, good, don't take them to school.
00:15:40.200But you should have the option to take the child to school.
00:15:43.400It shouldn't be forced on you if your child won't engage in sex activism.
00:15:48.120So I actually have more stories coming up like that now that—I'm sure, Sheila, you see this too.
00:15:54.880When you put something out, then you get more tips related to that.
00:15:57.820So now I see that this isn't just an isolated event to that district.
00:16:01.600There's more districts, so stay tuned to that, but be very vigilant about what your kids are being taught in school.
00:16:09.600In the beginning of that report, I talk about a family member.
00:16:12.560I'll just say it's one of my nieces who, long story short, she was taken out of school to avoid the pride madness that happens in the beginning of the year.
00:16:22.860And in her absence, the teacher made a pride flag for her.
00:16:26.940Like, at what point do you miss school and the teacher does your homework for you, the teacher does your assignment for you?
00:17:27.460And Saskatchewan also premier taking a stand against this stuff, but these activist teachers frequently find a workaround.
00:17:37.920So our friend Sarah Stock just did a report about what happened in an Edmonton high school where parents are supposed to be alerted in advance about this sort of stuff.
00:17:47.920But what they did was they left it till almost the very last second to alert parents about a lunchtime drag queen coming in and gyrating in sequined ladies' underpants to a bunch of high schoolers and failing to alert the parents in any sort of adequate amount of time.
00:18:05.180And then I know I was just tipped off to a story in Saskatchewan where Saskatchewan has outlawed or at least done their best to yank a lot of this sex activism out of the classroom.
00:18:16.880But wouldn't you know, you get an activist librarian who is shoveling up the sex activist books to little kids.
00:18:24.940And I'm wondering, you know, like when your kid comes home from school and they're like, who's the Anthony Hende highway named after?
00:18:32.700And you're like, why are they teaching about pride stuff when you don't know who one of the first Europeans to see the interior of Alberta and British Columbia is?
00:18:41.900I mean, we're really missing the boat.
00:18:43.320China's going to take us over because their kids are going to be smarter.