Last week, a sports columnist was suspended from radio because he said he didn’t believe man had really walked on the Moon.
Well, if we had to suspend all the individuals who dare to say outrageous things in the media, we would never end it!
It’s full of people making wild claims.
LUNAR CONSPIRACY
“I’m going to make a confession to you. I am not a conspiracy theorist but I believed for a long time that man had walked on the Moon but I no longer believe that man walked on the Moon (…) with everything I read today in the most recent information we read about the difficulties of sending rockets into space.
This is what Jeremy Filosa said last week on the air before losing his microphone at 98.5fm.
At this point, we wonder if Jeremy Filosa also believes that Elvis is alive and that he lives on a desert island with Marilyn Monroe and Michael Jackson.
But hey, every day I hear and read negationist comments that pass like butter in a pan.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of strange, bizarre or downright absurd statements that we hear repeated in the media… without anyone losing their microphone for having said them.
“All it takes is for a biological man to wear a dress and earrings for him to become a woman and to be called Madame.”
“A person who feels non-binary can have an X on their identity papers.”
“Sex is not binary (man-woman), it is a spectrum.”
“We should no longer say pregnant women but rather pregnant people because men can also be pregnant.”
“All white people are racist.”
“All white people are privileged.”
“It was only white people who practiced slavery.”
“All men are potential rapists and inside every man lies a Mazan rapist.”
“The Islamic veil is an instrument of women’s liberation.”
“Law 21 prohibits veiled women from working. »
“There is no problem of homophobia among immigrants.”
“Mass immigration has no impact on the housing crisis. »
All the sentences you have just read were written or spoken, in one form or another, in the Quebec media in recent months.
Some of these sentences make me scream in my living room.
But because these are socially acceptable beliefs, they pass like butter in the pan.
THE HIDDEN SIDE OF THE MOON
We are faced with double standards in the area of “theories”.
On the one hand there are wild theories that you should not share publicly and on the other hand there are wild theories that you are encouraged to share publicly.
When I hear that a man can be pregnant, or that sex is a social construct, I find it as absurd as saying that the Earth is flat.
The day we denounce these whims, it will be “one small step for man, one giant leap for humanity”. As comedian Neil Armstrong said in a television studio, in a fake lunar setting.
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