AFTER reading this opinion piece about the truckers protesting in Ottawa by David Moscrop of The Washington Post, it occurred to me just how deep anti-trucker sentiment is among the “educated” and enlightened. Moscrop does not hold back, calling the dissident drivers “toxic,” “far-right,” “authoritarianist” and “insidious extremists.” You can find similar vitriol in other news pieces and in statements from politicians over the past few days.

This disdain perhaps does not apply only to the truckers protesting forced medical injections — the real issue at hand that Moscrop doesn’t even acknowledge, thus suggesting the truckers are engaging in indiscriminate, “anti-government” trouble-making — but to truckers as a class.

Truckers are part of the invisible class of men that keep the economy going by doing often unpleasant jobs. What could be worse?

** Truckers are overwhelmingly white men, i.e. they are “white supremacists”

** Truckers don’t go to college

** Truckers don’t go to diversity and inclusion seminars

** Truckers control our food supply

** Truckers drive big, big vehicles and are responsible for destroying the planet

** Truckers don’t read The Washington Post or listen to NPR

Whatever happens in the next few days in Ottawa, and however encouraging all the support from ordinary Canadians who have cheered the truckers on is, I predict truckers in general are not going to come out looking good, at least not in the news. I also believe those in power genuinely fear the trucker. He is organized with his brothers; he could refuse to participate in, or expose, deliberate sabotage of our supply lines; he is not easily seduced by propaganda and he could weaponize his vehicle. Expect truckers to be increasingly portrayed as villains in order to rally the people against them and ultimately to automate their jobs out of existence.

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Zeno writes:

Besides the general animus against truckers (and against working-class people in general, which is not new — but then, isn’t the Washington Post owned by a famous billionaire?), what strikes me is the expression used in the title, which I read as “toxic freedom”. Yes, I suppose the writer is applying it only to the “Freedom Convoy”, but it does seem to be a rant against “freedom” in general.

The same people who supposedly pushed “freedom” until recently — “freedom” to have sex with anyone, “freedom” to divorce, “freedom” to abort babies, now appear to be increasingly against freedom in any way or form — even the most basic freedoms of movement, of choosing which medicine to take, and even of protesting against unfair rules.

They really, really want us to be slaves, with no choice other than whatever the elites decide is “good”, and they will stop at nothing to do it — they will even turn us into cyborg automatons if they can. Scary stuff.

Laura writes:

Moscrop is guilty of projection.

He’s the insidious extremist and authoritarianist.

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