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Don’t Feel Sorry for Cathy Newman, She Deserves the Mockery
By now many on Ricochet will have heard about or seen the now infamous video between Channel 4 “journalist” Cathy Newman and the darling of the new right Jordan Peterson. Channel 4 “news” is like Britain’s version of MSNBC except it, in the condescendingly British way, pretend to be fair and impartial. A lie if ever there was one.
Anyway as Jordan Peterson was on a tour of the UK they perhaps felt he would be good for their ratings to invite him on to discuss topical issues. What happened next is the video that is perhaps one of the greatest takedowns of smug liberal feminism that you will ever see this year. Why Channel 4 news agreed to publish the whole video is beyond me. Perhaps they taught their arch-feminist inquisitor would decimate poor Jordan or that his fans would give them some much-needed internet volume. Their news show is least watched of the big UK channels.
Spoiler alert — that didn’t happen. Instead, Cathy Newman was outclassed, outsmarted, and overpowered by a polite, soft-spoken Canadian who answered every acid-laden question she threw at him and was still respectful to her. It becomes clear to even the most sympathetic viewer that the whole interview was a set-up from early on as she tried — more than once — to trick him into saying something “bigoted” or hateful so Peterson would able to be labeled as at best a fool at worst a far-right bigot. Thankfully Jordan with his politeness and straight-talking not only destroyed her arguments but made it so that the interview backfired on her. So much so that the brilliant English conservative journalist Douglas Murray said she should take out a super-injunction on the video.
Its normal under some circumstances now to feel pity for her. But most Americans and those outside Britain should not fall for such pity. Cathy Newman has a history of doing the above stunts to politicians or people she disagrees with politically and launching attacks on those with different opinions to her.
- She repeatedly asked one of Britain’s few openly Christian politicians his opinions on gay sex. This meant he eventually had to resign as leader of his political party.
- She lied about getting kicked out of a Muslim mosque — never happened
- She openly and angrily denounced the Christian (again) MP Jacob Rees Mogg for his opposition to abortion and his stance on gay marriage.
- She openly called for a ban on pro-life vigils outside abortion clinics. (Free speech for pro-choice liberals but not pro-lifers)
- She lied about pro-lifers and stated falsely that they had helped influence mass shooters at abortion clinics. Vile statement altogether.
- She openly and repeatedly argues for feminism (enough said).
- It’s very easy to see her own positions come across in the people she interviews. (Sadly a flaw all too common in “journalists” today)
There are many more things I could add. It’s just that I don’t feel like now. You get the point. One last note: Apparently Newman is supposed to be getting a lot of death threats now, post video. I don’t doubt its true and that threats of death are wrong. But I also don’t doubt that much of the milder criticism she is getting is more than justified. Some of it is also quite funny.
Some of the comments underneath the video are great fun. Read them and enjoy. Oh, and God bless Jordan Peterson. It’s nice to see Canada is producing some excellent people.
This is why people hate journalists. After showing up one of their own, Channel 4 news did this.
Its sole purpose was to make Jordan Peterson look weird. Dishonest. But Peterson still got the last laugh. God bless him..
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As is anybody from any group that identify by their skin identity alone. Read or listen to any individual arguing on behalf of their “genetic” group and he/she sounds like an idiot.
That said, when all other groups act in this way and actively work to put white people in their place, so to speak, it’s hard not understand the temptation.
How on earth is my tech department 90% sub continent? These are high paying tech jobs that are relatively easy to train for and that doesn’t even account for the business analysts who’s jobs are apparently to “communicate” between the business and the developers. Anecdotally, there’s a hiring preference among the group, especially when it his like 60% it soon become 90+.
OK, whatever you say. Notice that I didn’t say that I would claim to have a degree, or that my school is better than her school, or that I got an A and she didn’t. My hypothetical questions were aimed at determining whether Newman had specific education or experience relevant to the particular topic being addressed.
In the law, we have to qualify expert witnesses before they can express opinions. This generally includes some sort of appropriate academic credential, though not necessarily (there is a famous case, I think it is Kumho Tire, pointing out that a beekeeper with years of experience, but no formal education, may well know more about bee behavior than a biologist with a PhD). It also generally includes demonstration of education or experience in the particular field — for example, in a cancer case, proof of education in oncology courses, perhaps specialization in oncology, and practice in oncology.
The resistance to this idea is understandable, especially on our side, as we’ve been hammered for years with well-credentialed Leftist professors who spout nonsense. But this does not mean that we should consider opinions about complex issues from the guy at the end of the bar.
The details of H1-B visas being what they are, the company is expressing an interest in indentured servitude. You get a three year visa that is renewable once and from what I understand is not transferable between employers. It takes five years to get a green card. That makes for a rather quiescent workforce.
i like the people who come over on that deal. I like their kids, I like their families, I like their culture, and competition doesn’t frighten me. But it is disingenuous to complain about the lack of local STEM graduates while keeping the income available to such graduates lower than it otherwise might be.
Longer visas or faster green cards (ideally both) and make the visas transferable. Then we’ll see what effect that might have.
Personally I don’t care much for their culture or their food, I’m not required to virtue signal “my love” for people who are supposedly “hard workers”.
I don’t think it’s a matter of indentured servitude. I’ve been on hiring teams where perfect good candidates are passed over for less skilled individuals of their kind. Groups come here with an ax to grind and their reinforced by our suicidal culture.
I’m not going to accuse you of hypocrisy, but what I see of how people arrange their neighborhoods they don’t intermix much, and with the numbers its not likely to change
I’d be a hard worker as well if you told me that if I didn’t do a good job, you’d send me to India.
The important thing to consider about the Alt-Right is that it is The Alternative To The Right.
And I think that’s why the term Alt-left isn’t accurate since they’re all a bunch of post modernist marxist communist. What ever the flavor government is good and government should be big.
The alt-right or at least how the spencer type describe it is socialist white identitarianism which I have no interest in.
It’s come to this for Cathy Newman: