Crack Report, Part 2: Calgary Herald and Cardus Say Alberta PC Party is “Stalinist”
The right in this country is becoming unhinged over something. Harper called the NDP pro-Hitler, which would be passing strange even in American politics. Last week an Ontario business leader denounced the new Liberal-NDP tax on the rich in that province as “ethnic cleasing.”
But surely the best crackpot moment so far can be found from Cardus writer Peter Stockland in today’s Calgary Herald:
Redford seems to have no taste for anything like proper balance or, for that matter, the charter itself. From the beginning of the campaign, she seemed partial to fiat rather than full democratic discussion. If I understood well, she declared issues such as abortion and gay rights off the agenda not because they are beyond provincial jurisdiction, but because they are not permitted in political conversation.
The phrase “Stalinist instinct” must be used very sparingly, but still.
Yes, Joseph Stalin and his well-known radical stance on the subject of gay rights.
I hear a network of incredibly harsh prison camps are already being built in the wilds of northern Alberta, and that the Alberta government will soon be stocking them with Jewish bankers, kulak farmers, and other enemies of the state like Stockland.
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Holly Stick
When Stockland used to write a regular column in the Herald he came across as very homophobic, as well as various other kinds of rightwing bigot.
Thwim
A person can only keep the batshit pent up for so long before it just has to escape. Give’em credit, it’s been 6 years now since Harper first got elected.
Sixth Estate
Yes, well. I suppose they should just let it all out.
Lenny
Too bad Stalin wasn’t still around to sue this guy for defamation. Stockland reminds me of one of those sovereign citizens (do what you want).
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Stalin did indeed have a “radical stance on gay rights”. In 1934, he re-established the Czarist laws outlawing homosexuality, which had been abrogated by the Soviet Revolution.
Just to add in Hitler, homosexuality became illegal (and later, grounds for being sent to death camps) in 1933, the year the Nazis took power.
Sixth Estate
Ah, yes, Hitler. The dictator that the NDP support.