Juno News - August 29, 2022


CBC claims ＂far-right＂ media fueling conspiracies about Dutch protests

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In this episode, I talk about a CBC article that suggests the Dutch farmer protests in the Netherlands were actually the work of far-right conspiracy theorists in Canada. I also talk about why the Canadian Freedom Convoy supported the Dutch farmers' protests, and why the government in Canada seems to think they are part of the conspiracy theory movement.

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00:00:00.000 Quickly, I want to touch on this ridiculous CBC article where they're basically saying that the Dutch protests that we see in the Netherlands, the farmer protests in the Netherlands that really took off around the world, these were fueled by conspiracy theories in Canada.
00:00:14.800 So there was a CBC headline that came out yesterday that said, Canada's convoy movement waved the Dutch flag, then conspiracy theories swirled about fertilizer and bugs.
00:00:26.280 Very bizarre article. They're basically trying to say, Rupa, I think here, and correct me if I'm wrong, the statement here is because a lot of people who are involved in the Freedom Convoy sympathized with what was going on in the Netherlands, which I think a lot of people rightly consider to be a sort of the next evolution of protests that we saw start in Ottawa, because Canadians who are sympathetic to the Ottawa protests and the Dutch protests, they're also conspiracy theorists or they're pushing conspiracy theorists?
00:00:54.980 Maybe it's just because they take issue with a real policy and the government is trying to back them up. I don't know what's going on here.
00:01:01.440 Yeah, this was a really bizarre story. It was desperately trying to bring in misinformation and disinformation into some Canadian support for the farmers' protests in the Netherlands.
00:01:18.740 It was a really bizarre story. It was a really bizarre story. It was long and it was just, you know, it made no sense to me.
00:01:24.900 But, you know, I was intrigued by a tweet that the CBC sent out to promote the story.
00:01:31.300 And, you know, the language was very problematic. I don't have the tweet with me, but basically I felt this was a case study in propaganda, that if you oppose government policies, they framed an opposition to government policies as being anti-government ideology.
00:01:52.240 Which is very problematic. So just because you criticize the government, essentially that means you're a far-right conspiracy theorist and you're anti-government and it's anti-government ideology.
00:02:06.060 This is incredibly problematic. And imagine, for example, if the legacy media in the U.S. during the civil rights movement, for example, and this was the example I sent out on my Twitter feed, in my tweet, in the 60s, the civil rights movement was protesting unjust laws.
00:02:23.080 And imagine if they were called anti-government ideology. In fact, there were people saying that this was anti-government ideology. But guess who these people were? These were Southern white supremacists.
00:02:34.960 Right. No, exactly. And that's kind of the shift we're seeing, right? I mean, it's when this movement goes so far, they've completely lost touch with reality and they end up sounding insane.
00:02:47.440 I mean, the CBC sounds absolutely insane here. I have the tweet here. As the Canadian convoy movement embraced farmers' protests in the Netherlands, far-right outlets here took advantage to amplify anti-government ideology.
00:02:58.060 So, excuse me, it wasn't even just about the protesters. It was about the far-right outlets. So they're attacking the media, which are critical of the government, and by proxy basically saying, anyone who reads these outlets, that's you watching the show right now, audience.
00:03:13.500 Since you, the CBC thinks, are some sort of far-right conspiracy theorist, you pay for the CBC. Remember that. This is what you pay for. You pay for an outlet to bash all of us constantly and do the government's bidding.
00:03:27.780 Again, this is the kind of stuff we can laugh at the CBC, and they always put out stuff to laugh at. But then they do stuff like this, which is extremely dangerous and just absolutely ridiculous. 0.97
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