Friday, 17 August 2018
John Ralston Saul: Citizenship for Whites Must Entail Sponsorship of Immigrants
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| "As a man of immense intellectual originality, as exhibited in my views on immigration, don't I have a right to have a little smirk and dress better than you? " |
John Ralston Saul, husband of former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, was the official public intellectual of Canada during the 1990s and early 2000s. He is still out there, but nowhere near Jordan Peterson. His ideas were leftist, the same as everyone else, though he has always imagined himself an outsider fighting for "social change" against a "terrifying" elite determined to squelch dissent. He still imagines himself a risk-taking fighter, but nowadays his revolutionary opprobrium is directed against "globalist" opposition to diversity.
Check his twitter — it is almost 100 percent dedicated to mass immigration and 100 percent against conformists who want European nations to remain European.
Saul imagines himself a profound thinker. I heard a few times (from academics who never read a book by Voltaire or about the Enlightenment) that his book, Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West (1993), was "a must-read book for anyone who considers themselves educated". I have never cared to read anything from this guy, other than some relevant pages from his supercilious and superficial book, Reflections of a Siamese Twin: Canada at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century (1998).
But this summer, while in Halifax, I came across an article in a local paper with the title, "Saul espouses virtues of immigration," which piqued my curiosity as to what else this must-read thinker may have to say about immigration besides his statement in this article that Nova Scotia needs to be flooded with immigrants just like the other major cities of Canada. ... [continued at the link above]
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