This way, in Quebec, we can talk about throwing axes at our opponents… and everyone will find it funny? On two conditions, of course: 1) be part of the good gang and 2) throw axes at those considered to be the bad gang.
The hatchet
Recently, I told you about the drag queen Mona from Grenoble who declared on the podcast Listening by Mike Ward, about people who denounce the omnipresence of drag queens: “I would kill them with an ax, host.”
No one found a word to complain about, no woke columnist cried intimidation.
A reader pointed out to me another case where a well-known personality talked about playing the axe.
On the show I come to youhosted by Marc Labrèche and broadcast on Noovo, Stéphane Rousseau confided that he had attended an “axe-throwing” establishment.
It was “a transcendent experience,” said the actor-comedian.
He could see himself doing that as a career. “I would have, I don’t know… Mathieu Bock-Côté as a target,” he said.
“Hahahaha,” reacted the guests and the audience.
“It’s clear, it has the merit of being clear!” to react Marc Labrèche.
“It could be fun!” concludes Stéphane Rousseau.
Now, let’s imagine for two seconds that the situation involves different characters. If Éric Duhaime had talked about throwing an ax at Emilie Nicolas or Rima Elkouri, for example.
How many outrageous editorials in Duty et The Press? How many petitions launched by a sexologist? How many nasty parodies The day (is still young)? Marie-Louise Arsenault would have re-re-re-re-invited Léa Clermont-Dion and Martine Delvaux to re-re-re-re-talk about toxic masculinity.
But when a man talks about attacking a man who is not left-wing very violently, Marc Labrèche and his acolytes find that hilarious?
Mathieu Bock-Côté is not only a friend and a colleague, but he is also the preface to my book Where are the women? So I have three good reasons to defend it.
But I dare to think that even if you have no connection with MBC, even if you profoundly disagree with what he says, thinks and writes, you will still be shocked that the violence against him is thus trivialized .
180 turn
Another anecdote about my friend Mathieu.
In 2020, Katherine Fafard, of the Quebec Booksellers Association, removed Prime Minister François Legault’s reading list from the Association’s website, “under pressure from Internet users who had sent complaint messages.”
One of the reasons why Legault’s list was considered problematic was the presence of MBC’s book The empire of political correctness.
Denise Bombardier described this decision as “stupidity” and “ideological blindness”.
“We cannot accept that a handful of radical activists trample our freedom of expression to defend their dictates. This goes way too far,” declared the PM himself.
Do you know where Katherine Fafard has been working for the past year? At the Ministry of Culture, at the Secretariat for the Promotion of Quebec Culture (Directorate of Development and Outreach Support). She is an advisor to… the promotion of Quebec culture.
You can’t make this up!
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