Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Calgary takes a stand： Battling cancel culture with Dr. James Lindsay

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I'm on location in Calgary. Dr. James Lindsay is in town giving a speech to

00:00:06.640 a thousand people. The venue had to be changed three times. This is the fourth venue. The others

00:00:13.200 were canceled under pressure. We'll give you clips from the man's speech and my thoughts before and

00:00:18.620 after. You got to get the video version. You can hear there's lots of people in the background here.

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00:00:30.740 the video, not just the audio. All right, here's today's podcast.

00:00:35.000 Tonight, the battle of cancel culture in Calgary. It's October 4th and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:56.060 Shame on you, you sensorism bug.

00:01:05.000 Oh, hi. I'm actually recording this on the night of October 3rd. I've flown to Calgary.

00:01:17.780 It's going to be a late night, so we'll put this on TV on October 4th. It's just after 6 p.m. Calgary

00:01:25.240 time. I'm at an event by Take Back Alberta, which is a conservative activist group. The keynote speaker

00:01:33.620 is Dr. James Lindsay. You may know Dr. James Lindsay. He's one of my favorite guests. Whenever

00:01:39.800 I have him on the show, it's a long-form interview. Once I get talking to him, I want to ask him a

00:01:45.880 hundred questions. It's never shorter than half an hour and I learned so much from him and I want to

00:01:51.760 tell him so much and hear his thoughts. Anyways, he's coming to this venue. It's an hour before showtime.

00:01:59.940 This venue holds close to 1,000 people and there's already hundreds here. I understand it's a sold

00:02:07.440 out crowd. It was a huge crowd last night too in Edmonton, Alberta. Take Back Alberta. I don't know

00:02:15.120 them well, but what I know about them, I like. It seems to me that one of their goals is to keep

00:02:20.600 the United Conservative Party of Alberta truly conservative. You correct me if I'm wrong on that,

00:02:26.620 but I wish we had the same sort of thing for every conservative party in this country. For a while

00:02:32.320 there, the federal conservatives seemed like lukewarm reheats of the liberals. Andrew Scheer and then even

00:02:39.060 worse, Aaron O'Toole. That's one of the great gifts that the truckers gave us, spitting out Aaron O'Toole

00:02:45.380 and helping to put in Pierre Polyev. Well, we've got to keep him conservative too. One of the things about

00:02:52.180 Dr. James Lindsay is he's not just an economic conservative. In fact, for all I know, he's not.

00:02:57.880 He's a cultural conservative. By cultural conservative, I mean he fights the battles

00:03:02.800 that are truly important. By cultural issues, I mean the battle with cultural Marxism. That's a phrase

00:03:10.260 I really didn't understand well until I got to know Dr. Lindsay. Cultural Marxism, well, you know what

00:03:16.520 Marxism is. It's class warfare. The worker, the proletariat versus the capitalist. But you see, now that we're

00:03:23.960 all sort of middle class and that everyone today has a wealth level that a century ago only the elites would

00:03:30.400 have, to keep the battle, there's a new form of Marxism. There's gender Marxism. First it was radical feminism, 0.99

00:03:38.820 but now there's transgender Marxism. So imagine the same class warfare, but instead of economic classes

00:03:47.060 fighting against each other, there's genders, women fighting against men. And now queer people fighting 0.97

00:03:54.860 against hetero people. That's the kind of cultural Marxism he fights. It's also deployed on race issues.

00:04:02.880 Instead of fighting for racial harmony, cultural Marxism pits races against each other, demonizes some races,

00:04:12.320 promotes other races or superior. It's really a mirror image of old-fashioned racism, but this time it's flipped

00:04:19.960 around. This is a deliberate strategy to wobble and destabilize our society. That's the battle that Dr. James Lindsay

00:04:30.920 talks about, which is why I think he's so despised by the left. I really don't think the left cares much

00:04:39.740 what the tax rate is. Is the GSD this many percent or that many percent? Is the exemption level this? I just

00:04:48.800 don't even think they care. I think the real battles for the left are these cultural issues. Recently,

00:04:56.540 the transgenderism in schools has been a fever pitch issue. And finally, normal parents of all races

00:05:05.320 have stood up. I don't know if you remember not long ago, the Million March for Kids. That was an

00:05:11.500 enormous pendulum swinging back against cultural Marxism, targeting children with sexualized teaching

00:05:18.900 American schools. That's the kind of thing that Dr. James Lindsay talks about. And because he's a PhD, because he's a

00:05:25.900 published author, because he's American and has an American sized, in fact, an international audience, he is a powerful and

00:05:34.900 eloquent speaker. You know that from what he says on my show. And they try and block him. It's sort of like Dr. Jordan Peterson, who I

00:05:43.900 would think is probably the leading cultural commentator in the English language. He's of such a level now that he sells

00:05:52.680 out stadiums, literally stadiums. His book has got to, you know, Rules for Life has got to be one of the most best-selling

00:06:01.900 nonfiction books in the last generation in Canada, translated into many languages. He's got a very popular podcast. He's starting

00:06:12.900 conferences. He's even starting a university. That's what happens when a culture, a clear and eloquent and smart

00:06:21.680 cultural leader of the right manages to take off. They tried to crush Dr. Peterson when he was starting

00:06:30.520 out. Do you remember this dramatic scene outside the University of Toronto when radicals, anti-Fistile

00:06:37.220 radicals tried to silence him? This is when they tried to kill, metaphorically speaking, Dr. Peterson, and they 0.97

00:06:44.960 failed. And look at him now.

00:06:46.300 So there's a reason I'm defending freedom of speech. The reason for that is quite straightforward. The reason I'm

00:06:55.160 defending freedom of speech is because that's how people get their opinions, settler opinions in a civil society. 0.72

00:07:02.540 And if we lose that, we lose so much you can't imagine. Now here's what's happened with Bill C-16 and the surrounding

00:07:15.280 legislation. Free speech is the mechanism by which we keep our society functioning.

00:07:22.860 It's a consequence of free speech and the ability to speak. People can put their finger on problems,

00:07:30.700 articulate what those problems are, solve them, and come to a consensus. And we risk losing that.

00:07:38.620 Well, that's what they don't want to happen to other cultural leaders on the right,

00:07:42.880 like Dr. James Lindsay. And that's why they've been blackballing him and forcing venues to cancel.

00:07:49.780 I'm delighted that the Astoria Banquet Hall here in Calgary is what I think is the fourth venue for his

00:07:57.960 Calgary speech. And that's terrifying to me, is that three other venues, the managers were so terrorized

00:08:08.280 that they canceled. In fact, they had a phone tree, literally phoning people, including myself,

00:08:15.180 just a couple of hours ago to let us know where this venue was. They didn't even want to post it

00:08:20.200 anywhere, lest it be shared. I should say, when I walked up to the building, there was an enormous

00:08:25.100 security presence. I don't know if police are here, because frankly, it's been my personal experience.

00:08:32.580 The police in Canada generally don't care if conservatives are blacklisted, if conservative

00:08:39.380 events are threatened. I say that because I've seen it with my own eyes. When my own book launch

00:08:48.660 was canceled because of terrorizing threats, the police did nothing. When Megan Murphy, the feminist 0.99

00:08:56.800 activist, has event after event canceled, the police do nothing. And I'm not saying they're canceled

00:09:02.400 because of political persuasion. They're canceled by threats of violence. Let me put the shoe on the

00:09:08.660 other foot. If Dr. James Lindsay was a Muslim speaker in a mosque, was a drag queen story hour 0.99

00:09:17.500 storybook reader, or was a Black Lives Matter speaker, or was an abortion rights speaker, do you think for a

00:09:26.940 second the police would take it lightly if there were violent threats to cancel their functions?

00:09:32.400 You don't have to guess. Here in Calgary, their hardcore left-wing mayor and city council

00:09:38.560 actually passed a bylaw that if anyone within 100 meters of a drag queen story hour protests even

00:09:47.500 peacefully, even peacefully, within 100 meters, they are arrested. And we know that because that's

00:09:55.160 exactly what happened to Pastor Derek Reimer. Take a look at what they did to him.

00:09:59.840 And just FYI, in that video clip, the man being roughed up was Pastor Derek Reimer. Yet he was the

00:10:23.380 one who was charged because he was within 100 meters of a drag queen story hour.

00:10:30.540 That kind of police errand running for far-left activists is shocking to me, but it's happening

00:10:38.040 even here in Calgary, allegedly the most conservative city in Canada.

00:10:43.720 Well, let me look at my watch. It is now around 6.30, and the crowd continues to come in. It looks like

00:10:52.920 it's filling up quite nicely. I think it's going to be standing room only, and there must be at least

00:10:58.620 20 security outside. I'm going to sit down. We're going to watch the evening's event.

00:11:04.160 We're going to film some of it for you, too, so you can hear what's so scary from Dr. Lindsey. And then

00:11:11.720 afterwards, if the man still has energy, and I'm sure he will, we'll have a one-on-one conversation

00:11:17.040 with him. So we'll catch up later in the night.

00:11:30.600 There is not just a social contagion. There is a Maoist pressure campaign to push our children into

00:11:37.200 revolutionary identities designed to oppose the society they live in. And under this banner,

00:11:44.240 I just learned yesterday, it's a very great upset in a cross-cultural Canadian environment, 1.00

00:11:52.320 that the Starbucks Canada line is that you can fly the Black Lives Matter flag, you can fly the Pride

00:11:57.800 flag, you can fly the Progress flag, but you will not fly the Canadian flag because it's a hate symbol.

00:12:05.280 It's the same game. The same game. We're not building now a Red Guard. They're building 1.00

00:12:13.820 two different colors. They're building a Green Guard and the environmental stuff they're scaring 0.97

00:12:18.540 the crap out of the kids with. Existential dread. Constantly thinking the world's going to end in

00:12:23.940 five years or 12 years again. Are we asking the idiot Greta or the idiot AOC? 1.00

00:12:28.100 The Green Guard is coming. The Green Guard is being mobilized actively by Biden in the United 1.00

00:12:37.020 States. It's being urged to be angry and active by Obama and social media posts in the United States.

00:12:43.140 The Green Guard is coming. But there's also the Rainbow Guard. And the Rainbow Guard is why I got 1.00

00:12:48.620 canceled from so many events here in Alberta, probably from activists who live in British Columbia.

00:12:53.540 And they got on the phone. And they want your kids to join the Rainbow Guards. Let me tell you the last

00:13:04.340 little piece about Mao, and I'll tell you about what they do in education more specifically. So you can

00:13:08.760 just be even more happy about how they run things. And that'll give you some hope, believe it or not.

00:13:16.680 So the last thing about Mao was that Mao deployed the Red Guard. So I told you before he gave this speech,

00:13:21.620 he built it all up. It's power in the 50s. In 1958, he launched this thing called the Great

00:13:25.620 Leap Forward, killed 100 million people, whoops, destroyed the economy, whoops, so bad that they

00:13:30.340 kicked him out of office. The dictator of a communist country, they kicked him out of office. That bad.

00:13:36.180 So it was Mao like, oh, I'm so ashamed, I messed up bad humility. Yeah, in public, that's what he said.

00:13:41.460 Then he went and he plotted his revenge. In 1962, they kicked him out. In 1966, he took all those kids

00:13:47.460 he'd been radicalizing in the schools for 15 years, and he unleashed them on the public,

00:13:52.180 and that was his Red Guard. That was those kids that were brought into being revolutionary leaders

00:13:57.140 under his pressure pump of identity politics, snitch culture, turning in your parents,

00:14:02.420 smashing the four olds, devastating the society that you live in, being opposed to all of the things 1.00

00:14:08.580 that are considered old, I guess, or legitimate, normal, and dominant in society. And he unleashed

00:14:15.460 them, and millions died. Millions were tormented. So much of traditional Chinese culture was obliterated

00:14:23.140 for no good reason, down to pictures people had of their family and their homes, because those are old.

00:14:28.340 And then in 1967, in the fall of 1967, the Red Guard marched on the presidential palace, and Mao's successor,

00:14:39.060 Lu Xiaoqi, the dictator of the CCP in China, got hauled out and humiliated and yelled at and then

00:14:47.860 waving the red book and chanting about Mao. They embarrassed him, they beat him. And he said,

00:14:53.540 Am I not a citizen? Can I not speak? He's the president of the CCP. He's chairman. Am I not a

00:15:00.820 citizen? Can I not speak? And they said no. And they made him hold his head in shame, and they

00:15:06.260 yelled at him, and they embarrassed him for hours, and they dragged him off to go die in the countryside

00:15:11.220 a few months later. Mao resumed power, and that was the fall of 1967, and by the beginning of 1968,

00:15:18.020 Mao said that the Red Guard had become too left, too radical, and he unleashed the People's Liberation

00:15:22.260 Army on it and sent them off to die in the countryside, too.

00:15:30.100 The fate of our Rainbow Guard radicalized kids is not good. If they win, they lose. 1.00

00:15:39.860 That's their best case scenario. They are being used. The entire religious philosophy is based off

00:15:46.020 of a predecessor of Marx named Hegel, and Hegel had a saying that history uses people, then discards them.

00:15:54.660 So why is it that feminism can't stop men from getting in women's spaces if they just put on some 1.00

00:15:59.460 lipstick and they go right in the locker room? Because history used feminists and now has discarded them. 1.00

00:16:04.820 That's why. It's the same philosophy. The same idea. And these poor kids that are getting radicalized and

00:16:10.660 taught to destroy their countries, destroy their families, destroy property, destroy their faiths, 0.99

00:16:17.540 destroy themselves psychologically, emotionally, and physically, will be disposed of when their time

00:16:25.620 comes to. Because what Mao said is that different things are needed in different phases of the revolution.

00:16:30.740 In the period where we were consolidating power, we needed people to destabilize the existing Kuomintang regime. 0.64

00:16:37.060 In the phase where now we are building socialism, we don't need people who destabilize.

00:16:41.620 The destabilizers that they break will be destroyed because they're useless and dangerous to their next project.

00:16:47.860 That is the horror of communism. That is the horror of communism that they're visiting on our kids

00:16:55.460 in the name of inclusion and something about wanting to keep them from committing suicide or whatever

00:17:00.820 horrible emotional blackmail they throw at you to get you to go along with it.

00:17:05.620 So how in the world are they doing this in the schools? Because this is really about the kids.

00:17:09.540 How in the world are they doing this in the schools?

00:17:12.900 If you don't know how they're doing this, you can't stop it. And the fundamental reality is that it's a magic trick.

00:17:17.380 This is why you should be hopeful. But you can see the magic trick. If I did a card trick up here and pulled the queen of hearts out

00:17:24.100 out of my ear or something and you're like, wow, he's a magician. And then I showed you about how I had it tucked under my collar right here

00:17:30.260 and you're like, oh, that's really not that cool. The magic loses all of its magic, literally, when you know how it's done.

00:17:36.580 Well, that's what happens here. What they've done is they've done a magic trick to steal education.

00:17:40.420 What they've done is they're word games. What they've done is some bait and switch.

00:17:45.860 So, for example, they've stolen the idea of education. What is the idea of education?

00:17:50.500 We're going to educate students so that they grow up and that they're functional members of society, right?

00:17:54.740 No, no, no, they don't want that. Teaching kids to be functional members of society who can do things

00:17:59.380 like read and do math and know history creates what they call the problem of reproduction. It creates

00:18:04.900 children who grew up to reproduce the society that they already live in, which is oppressive, of course.

00:18:09.060 You have to overcome that. Instead, what they said is the purpose of a literacy lesson. This is Paulo

00:18:15.540 Freire, the Brazilian Marxist who all of North American education is now based off of. What they 0.83

00:18:20.100 said is that a literacy lesson is actually used specifically to generate political literacy.

00:18:26.900 True literacy isn't being able to read the word, it's being able to read the world. Isn't that punny?

00:18:32.900 Doesn't it just make you want to be? It does. It's really about learning to read the context of your life.

00:18:44.340 It's culturally relevant education is the updated terminology. The idea of education is to install

00:18:50.580 radicalization, just like with Mao, so that they can create a red guard and a green guard and a rainbow 0.53

00:18:55.780 guard and whatever color guard they need eventually to unleash on the population to destabilize the 0.91

00:19:00.580 population to get a revolution. The idea of education was stolen by transforming it into political

00:19:06.340 literacy right underneath our noses. The way they did this partly is that they stole the means of

00:19:14.100 education. How do we educate? How do we educate? Well, we give people lessons, we show them how to work

00:19:22.580 through the problems or understand the material, and then we send them off to practice their own

00:19:26.580 examples, right? That's how we educate. I was an educator, that's actually the method of educating. It's not

00:19:31.700 that complicated. What Paulo Freire, that Brazilian Marxist who's taken over all of our educational 1.00

00:19:38.580 thought in the West said is that the academic lesson, the literacy lesson is a mediator to political

00:19:45.540 knowledge. It is a mediator to a political conversation to, since we're talking about this

00:19:50.580 being a cult, to conscientize, to awaken, to woke the students up. And here's how it works. Math problem,

00:20:01.380 second grade, you guys call it like grade two or something, I don't know. I'm working on my metric still.

00:20:06.580 Johnny is riding in the car with his mom and dad on the way to an amusement park. I'll do this in

00:20:18.820 metric for you, watch. The amusement park is 50 kilometers away, kilometers away. They've driven 30

00:20:28.340 kilometers. I don't think you guys say that word right. How much further do they have to go?

00:20:33.300 Now, if you saw that in your kid's homework, would you object?

00:20:39.620 Yes. No. Nobody's going to object to this problem unless they know the trick.

00:20:44.020 But this is not that problem. It's every problem. This actually came from a teacher training in

00:20:48.100 Indiana. The teacher who exposed it got fired. And she said that they, by the end of this training,

00:20:53.780 had learned to do this with every possible lesson. So here's what you do. The kids are going to think

00:20:59.060 that's boring. Nobody wants to do math. Nobody wants to learn how to extract the subtraction problem

00:21:03.700 from the paragraph, solve the subtraction problem, and then report back in words that they have 20

00:21:11.140 kilometers left to go. Nobody wants to do that. That's not engaging. It's to be culturally relevant.

00:21:17.380 Hey kids, who's ever been to an amusement park? Raise your hand. Now, when you have a situation where some

00:21:22.900 people have and some people have not, the sociological term for that is a stratified population.

00:21:28.820 Marxism, guess what it is? It's a conflict theory on stratified populations. So what they do is they

00:21:33.940 get the kids are seven years old. They're seven. Has every seven-year-old been to an amusement park?

00:21:38.580 No. So some kids raise their hand and some kids don't. The teachers are told to take advantage of

00:21:42.740 the opportunity. Wow guys, some of you have, some of you haven't. What are some reasons why some people

00:21:48.020 get to go to a amusement park and some people wouldn't? What's the reason for this difference? Now you're

00:21:52.340 not talking about math. You're talking about difference. You're not even getting engaged in,

00:21:55.940 oh it's fun. Who's ever been? Okay, let's solve the problem. Nope. It's not about engagement. Now you're

00:21:59.940 talking about the difference in the room. The second you make it about the difference in the room, you're

00:22:03.860 having a political conversation. And they're told to keep going until somebody, some kid, kids say some

00:22:08.260 wild stuff, until some kid, some seven-year-old raises his hand and says not everybody can afford it.

00:22:13.300 And now you get to say, wow, you're right. What are some ways we can make that more fair?

00:22:18.820 So everybody can go. Rich people can pay for it. Make it free. Make the government pay for it.

00:22:25.300 Blah, blah, blah. And you had a conversation with the kids instead of doing math about socialism.

00:22:30.180 Maybe it's a racial demographic split and how the kids raise their hand. Wow, I see a lot more of the 0.98

00:22:34.660 white kids raise their hand. What are some racial reasons behind, why do you think that's happening?

00:22:40.660 And you get the CRT conversation going. They're trying to keep the kids raising their hand sometimes until

00:22:45.700 somebody volunteers something like, my parents won't let me go. And now you get to have a conversation.

00:22:50.900 If it's fair that some parents get to say yes and some parents say no, shouldn't the schools make

00:22:54.980 decisions like that for the kids? Wouldn't that be more fair, guys? These are seven-year-olds.

00:22:59.140 They're turning them against you. And that's what Paulo Freire called a generative theme.

00:23:06.340 Amusement park doesn't seem that scary, and it doesn't matter what sentence they give.

00:23:10.420 You can always do this with something. The generative theme generates a political conversation.

00:23:16.020 Amusement park is one generative theme. Turn out that word problem had three of them.

00:23:20.100 If you don't like that, you could use mom and dad. Do all families have a mom and dad?

00:23:23.780 You've got a feminist and a sexuality conversation waiting right around the corner. And is it really 0.99

00:23:28.980 a good idea, guys? Remember when we talked about air pollution and science? Is it really a good idea

00:23:32.740 to be driving a car just to go have fun for the day? One family. And now you've got your environmental

00:23:38.420 green garden conversation. And that is how they steal the mechanism of education. They turn the academic

00:23:44.980 lesson into an excuse to have conversations about politics behind your back. You won't see it in the

00:23:50.980 curriculum. You won't see it in the book. If you can even get a hold of the book, it's probably in their laptop.

00:23:56.660 You won't see it in their homework. You would actually have to see the teacher doing it. And guess

00:24:00.260 what? You show up that day, they're not going to do that. They're going to hide it from you like

00:24:04.180 they hide so many other things from you because they think that they have a divine right to initiate your

00:24:09.700 children into their cult.

00:24:18.980 It's a packed evening. There are still 100 people who want to talk to the keynote speaker.

00:24:28.260 I learned a lot. Dr. James Lindsay, pleasure to meet you in person. You've been on the show a few

00:24:32.660 times. We're going to have some excerpts from your speech, but tell me about the trip itself. What

00:24:38.340 surprised you about Canada?

00:24:40.260 The energy. There's so much more energy in Canada to fight back against woke, to fight back against

00:24:46.660 tyranny than I didn't expect to see it. I'll just tell you the truth. I thought it was going to be

00:24:50.500 very passive. I didn't think it was going to be anything like this. I saw Sikhs, Muslims, Christians,

00:24:56.740 atheists, people of every race coming together to say, no, no more. We're going to protect our kids.

00:25:01.780 We're not having tyranny. We're going to start in Alberta. We're going to take by Canada. And I'm going to,

00:25:05.620 I tell you, I'm going to go home to the United States and I'm going to shame Americans for not 1.00

00:25:09.860 having energy that these Canadians have. And what do you make about the attempts to terrorize venues? 0.55

00:25:16.580 I think this was like the fourth venue that your host went through. What do you have to say about

00:25:21.860 that? I mean, it almost didn't happen. Well, that's true. It almost didn't happen. If it weren't for

00:25:26.980 up in Edmonton, the Sikhs. And if it weren't for the Muslims down here in Calgary, we wouldn't have got 1.00

00:25:30.740 it pulled together. We had venue canceled, venue canceled. It's the same games. But you know,

00:25:35.220 I, you see the, you see the turnout a thousand, more than a thousand people turned out tonight,

00:25:39.220 more than 800 in Edmonton. You know, the people are, we're going to, we're going to stop this crap. 0.99

00:25:43.460 They're not going to keep shutting things down. People are getting tired of it. People are rolling 0.98

00:25:47.060 their eyes. The guy at the, ran the venue up in Edmonton last night, which showed me some of

00:25:51.860 the messages and we're just laughing about him. It's like, it's just becoming this tedious joke of

00:25:56.580 things that the stupid activists do. And that that's the coming from the states where this spell has 1.00

00:26:01.140 broken. That's the first step. And then next they call and people are saying like, no, nevermind.

00:26:05.380 We don't care. And so Canada, at least Alberta is on its way. I want to let you get back to folks

00:26:10.660 because a lot of people being waiting in line to say hi to you, but I just got a couple more quick

00:26:14.740 questions to compare your American experience with Canada. In what ways is the crisis worse

00:26:22.500 here or there? Would you say that America is further down the path than we are? Because Canadians,

00:26:30.100 I think are generally more socialist and more woke, or am I wrong? No, I think that the general

00:26:35.140 people here are, are, are frankly too polite, at least as far as this goes. I'm, I, you know,

00:26:40.340 I think it's a virtue to be polite and it's always something that's been great when I meet Canadians,

00:26:44.340 but you can't let people roll you over. And, um, that's been a problem. So the Canadians are more woke.

00:26:50.020 There seems to be more kind of ground level of everyday person support for the manipulations

00:26:56.740 around the LGBTQ, you know, perpetration that's going on in our society. The states were getting 1.00

00:27:02.500 tired of it, you know, outside of maybe the West coast. Um, so that's different. We are further down

00:27:07.380 the path and I think it's a zombie ideology is what I say is it died, but all the institutions are still

00:27:13.300 doing it. So it's still going right. So it's dead, but it's still moving like a zombie. And that

00:27:18.580 we're a little further along with, I think Americans are more tired of the ideology,

00:27:22.260 but like I said, the energy here in Alberta has really blown me away. So I would love to see

00:27:27.780 Canada catch up. And I think it will. Alberta is probably the most rebellious reform minded place

00:27:34.500 in the country. It would be interesting to see reaction to Toronto or Vancouver. Last question for

00:27:40.340 you, then I'll let you get back to your Canadian fan base in terms of the fight back. I feel like

00:27:46.900 in America, there are more dedicated parents who are campaigning. Am I wrong on that? I feel like,

00:27:54.740 um, there's a, there's a spirit in America of revolution. We're going to take back our school

00:28:00.740 boards. We heard a little bit of that by the, the leader of take back Alberta.

00:28:04.660 How do you compare the counter revolution in the two countries? Like I said, I think we're a couple

00:28:11.540 of years further down the road than you guys are, but I think it's coming here. I think the energy's

00:28:15.700 coming. They cross the uncrossable line. They mess with our kids. We've heard from Sikhs. We've heard 1.00

00:28:19.620 from Muslims. We've heard from Christians or from atheists. We've from all kinds of people.

00:28:22.580 You don't mess with our kids. A Sikh guy told me yesterday up in Edmonton, he said, you know,

00:28:27.140 if you take away our kids, that's everything. That's the last thing. Then there's nothing left.

00:28:30.980 And that's the attitude these people have. So it is further along in America. There are

00:28:34.660 hundreds of thousands of parents engaged across the states, but that's happening here. It's taking

00:28:40.020 a slightly different shape here, but that's fine. In the parents organizations, I know that, you know,

00:28:44.100 take back Alberta is going to be interested in talking with those in the states, sharing information,

00:28:47.940 sharing ideas, sharing, uh, you know, strategies. And so I think there's going to be a real collaborative

00:28:52.500 effort where we're going to get, get our countries back. Would you consider coming back to Canada,

00:28:56.740 maybe other cities? I'd love to. Yeah, absolutely. I know that there are people who want me

00:29:00.580 in Ottawa. Goodness. I know there are people who are trying to get me to Vancouver or the greater

00:29:05.060 area. The cancellation game is a little stronger even there, but yeah, I would love to come back

00:29:09.460 up north. Um, like I said, in the talk, it's a beauty way to go. I've heard, I heard the song.

00:29:14.580 I know all that. I'd love to get back up here. It's been fun. Great to meet you in person. Thanks.

00:29:18.500 My pleasure. Right on there. You have a James. We'll let you get back to your fans.

00:29:21.700 Yes, sir. Okay. Well, great to chat with him in person. You know what? I had hoped to have a longer

00:29:28.180 chit chat with him, but there's no way I'm going to pull him away from his adoring fans. I should

00:29:33.060 tell you it's 10 0 6 PM and there's probably still a hundred people in the room. I think this was the

00:29:39.940 first time they heard a scholarly expert unpack the ideology. What does it mean to have critical race

00:29:49.140 theory? What does it mean to have gender theory, queer theory? Where did it come from? Why does, 0.56

00:29:55.540 how does it work? What language does he use? I think it's been an eye opener for people here,

00:30:02.340 especially those who hadn't encountered Dr. James Lindsay before. If you're, if you watch the Ezra

00:30:08.660 Levant show, as I know you do, we've probably interviewed him a half dozen times. So it wouldn't

00:30:14.820 be news to you, but for a thousand people here who I think you're going to go and be repeaters

00:30:21.380 now of the information. After the keynote speaker spoke, the head of take back Alberta

00:30:26.980 talked about mobilizing parents to take over his school boards. And they mentioned that they had

00:30:32.500 accomplished that with one library board. And you might say library board that sounds super boring.

00:30:39.140 Well, absolutely. It's super boring, except for it has been radicalized and they want you to think

00:30:45.380 it's super boring because that's where a lot of these radical cultural Marxist books are coming in

00:30:51.700 through the libraries. It's, you know, the thing about conservatives, I think,

00:30:57.140 is that we like to just assume things are okay. We don't need to be busy bodies poking into libraries

00:31:04.900 and school boards. We assume someone's watching things, but it, that's a false assumption. That's

00:31:11.460 where the radicals have gone. Many tyrants say, give me a child at the age of six or seven,

00:31:18.020 give me him for five years and I'll have him forever. There's many variations on that theme,

00:31:23.140 but it is true. I mean, the Jesuits said it, tyrants say it. And I think that's why they're after our kids,

00:31:29.620 because as we heard so eloquently from Dr. Lindsay, the children, I mean, look at, look at the red 0.83

00:31:35.780 guard. Mao used the children, weaponized the children for tyranny. That's what Greta Thunberg is 1.00

00:31:42.820 doing. She's in her twenties now, but she looks like a child and there's a reason for that. 0.61

00:31:48.980 Anyways, I'm glad I came out to Calgary. I'd never met James Lindsay in person before,

00:31:54.660 but actually the main payoff for me was seeing a thousand people come to an event late at night.

00:32:03.060 But not just that, the venue for this event was kept secret until hours before when everyone got

00:32:11.140 a phone call. They must've had a large phone tree, so to speak, 10 people calling, 10 people calling,

00:32:17.220 10 people or something like that. But to have this place packed and to stand up to the cancel culture, 0.92

00:32:24.660 deep platforming bullies is sort of amazing. I'm glad I was here in Calgary. James said he gave

00:32:33.300 a different speech in Edmonton last night. I would have liked to have heard that one too.

00:32:38.820 What do you think of Dr. James Lindsay? What do you think of the fact that four venues

00:32:45.460 were needed? The first three canceling under pressure.

00:32:49.220 Send me an email with your thoughts to Ezra at rebelnews.com. That's it for me here for tonight.

00:32:58.020 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us in Calgary at our rebel headquarters in Toronto and around the

00:33:03.940 world, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - October 04, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Calgary takes a stand： Battling cancel culture with Dr. James Lindsay

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