Press Progress is a far-left, pro-communist outlet who pretends like they somehow represent the moderate Canadian opinion on various social issues, and they go after Conservatives, implying that you said something disgusting or hateful, based on out-of- context quotes or expert opinion that comes out and reframes normal conservative opinion as being somehow far-right and intolerable. In this episode, I talk about how to deal with the far-Left cancel culture mob, and how to respond to them.
00:00:00.000As many of you may already know, I, Wyatt Claypool, a principal conservative, am running for the Conservative Party nomination for the riding of Calgary Signal Hill.
00:00:08.720I've filled out most of the paperwork, and I'm going to be submitting it fairly soon.
00:00:12.800Hopefully, I'm approved to run on the ballot, and hopefully Conservative Party members end up selecting me to be the federal Conservative Party representative for the riding.
00:00:21.260And, you know, if you live in the riding, or you know someone who lives in the riding, I have my website linked in the description of this video below.
00:00:26.800And you can also donate even if you don't live in the riding, but this is really not what this video is about.
00:00:32.580This video is about me responding to Press Progress trying to smear me in an upcoming article in which this video is a response to.
00:00:39.620This video is also an instructional video on how to deal with the far-left cancel culture mob, because that's basically what's happening to me in real time here.
00:00:50.800Press Progress is a far-left, pro-communist outlet who pretends like they somehow represent the moderate Canadian opinion on various social issues, and they go after Conservatives, implying that you said something disgusting or hateful, based on out-of-context quotes or expert opinion that comes out and basically reframes normal Conservative opinion as being somehow far-right and intolerable.
00:01:14.680Let me just lay out something right now.
00:01:17.120Parental rights in Canada polls extremely well in terms of people being in favour of it.
00:01:22.340It's anywhere from 60% to over 80%, depending on the province.
00:01:27.660It's just the concept that parents should have just transparency when it comes to their children in the classroom.
00:01:32.480They should know the lesson plans and curriculums that are being taught in the schools, and that if a child is going to change gender pronouns and whatnot, that a parent should be given affirmative consent before that's being done, or at least they should be given the transparency to know that that's going on.
00:01:48.100There shouldn't be secrets held from parents in the classrooms between children and teachers.
00:01:52.620That's a very kind of dubious and potentially dangerous situation to have, where there's a disconnect in communication between the teacher and the child and the parents and the child.
00:02:02.980That's not something that should ever be going on.
00:02:05.180But because I defended Pierre Polyev, like, you know, going after gender theory in the classroom, an eminently popular position that gender theory and other sorts of far-left social theory should not be taught in the classroom,
00:02:16.740that because I defended him, and I defended him specifically from Press Progress' smears, this means that I also might be transphobic and homophobic.
00:02:25.940So Luke LeBrun from Press Progress sends me this email right here, basically saying that I'm somehow being mean or I'm somehow being inaccurate or transphobic or whatever,
00:02:35.960because I said it was a fringe hypothetical and a one in a million that parental rights would result in any child being abused at home.
00:02:43.800I even mentioned the fact, of course, they do not actually cite this in the email, that any parent who would abuse their child is disgusting,
00:02:50.640and that we already have child services and laws to protect children against that.
00:02:54.320The concept of parental rights and parents being able to know what's going on in the classroom is not affecting any of this.
00:02:59.460But they are trying to make some sort of hypothetical scare campaign in order to push back against parental rights,
00:03:05.940which, again, is an extremely popular position in Canada that parental rights should be respected.
00:03:11.480But they go on in this email, and they basically use the exact same tactics they use against Pure Polyev against me,
00:03:18.580where they basically say, you know, LGBTQ plus advocates told us that you're somehow being like, you know, transphobic or bigoted,
00:03:26.560and you're pushing misinformation that's dangerous and whatnot.
00:03:29.720And what I wanted to do is find out who these people are that they're even citing,
00:03:34.000because I assumed they're probably going to cite the exact same people that they cited in the article against Pure Polyev.
00:03:40.500I'll just quickly bring that up for you, just so you can see what I'm talking about.
00:03:44.000So they referenced these two individuals, Tyler Boyce from the Enchanté Network.
00:03:49.300Hopefully I'm not mispronouncing that for all you French viewers who don't like me mispronouncing French words.
00:03:54.060But they referenced Tyler Boyce and Faye Johnson.
00:03:58.060Now, these two individuals are not what you would consider exactly nonpartisan when it comes to their political views.
00:04:04.640And frankly, I consider them extremely radical.
00:04:07.940I don't know why any Canadian should take their opinions on anything particularly seriously,
00:04:12.440because while they consider themselves advocates on behalf of the LGBTQ community,