{"id":1300067,"date":"2022-02-15T10:20:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T15:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1300067"},"modified":"2022-02-15T15:22:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T20:22:56","slug":"experts-to-cbc-freedom-trucker-rallying-cry-a-slippery-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/experts-to-cbc-freedom-trucker-rallying-cry-a-slippery-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Experts\u2019 To CBC: \u2018Freedom,\u2019 Trucker Rallying Cry, A \u2018Slippery Concept\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexperts-to-cbc-freedom-trucker-rallying-cry-a-slippery-concept%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1300067&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Freedom-Convoy-4-scaled-e1644951663356-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>A Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/checkup\/what-s-your-reaction-to-the-ottawa-standoff-and-the-border-blockades-1.6349636\/why-the-word-freedom-is-such-a-useful-rallying-cry-for-protesters-1.6349865\">piece<\/a> on the leftist Canadian national news network CBC took issue with a certain term that \u201c<\/span><span>has taken hold among protesters who are part of the Freedom Convoy\u201d in Ottawa.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The term in question is \u201cfreedom,\u201d and according to some experts interviewed by the CBC, it\u2019s \u201ca slippery concept\u201d and it \u201chas thrived among far-right groups.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cFreedom is a slippery concept,\u201d said Elisabeth Anker, who is a political science professor at George Washington University and the author of \u201cUgly Freedoms,\u201d a book that examines and critiques the history of freedom in America.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Her main criticism of the \u201cfar-right\u2019s\u201d use of freedom is that it has blocked efforts to fight for equality, coining this \u201cviolent freedom.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOn the far right, [individual freedom] is often translated into somebody who refuses to be bound by norms of equality, treating all people equally or norms to remedy inequality, whether that\u2019s trying to remedy racial discrimination or gender discrimination,\u201d Anker said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Canadian protesters in the Freedom Convoy have been demonstrating in Ottawa for weeks now as the government is ramping up efforts to dissolve the massive protest.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-trudeau-announces-unprecedented-action-freezing-bank-accounts-of-freedom-convoy-protesters\"><span>announced<\/span><\/a><span> his government would be enacting the Emergencies Act, which grants the government more power to punish demonstrators.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But as The Daily Wire\u2019s Tim Pearce <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-these-very-powers-are-why-we-are-here-canadian-protesters-dig-their-heels-in-against-trudeaus-crackdown\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span>, the new action from Trudeau isn\u2019t changing protesters minds. <\/span><span>\u201cNo one really cares about any new announcement,\u201d protester David Paisley told The Daily Wire. \u201cI mean the police have been breaking the law long before any emergency power. They were taking our fuel away. They were arresting people for purely having jerry cans or having empty tanks of fuel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Another expert interviewed by the CBC tried to explain Canadians\u2019 seemingly new infatuation with this concept of freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAs seen among some protesters currently opposing vaccine mandates and other public health measures, freedom signals a desire for freedom from government intervention or overreach,\u201d said Barbara Perry, director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism at Ontario Tech University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Perry also tied the Freedom Convoy in Canada to what led to the riot on January 6 at the U.S. capitol. \u201cI think it resonates very much with what we\u2019ve been seeing \u2014 and maybe takes some inspiration from what we\u2019ve been seeing \u2014 in the U.S. over the last year and a half or so, leading up to the last election and events of Jan. 6,\u201d she commented.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The article concludes by stating the surprising rise of people calling for freedom over the \u201csocial good\u201d in Canada.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s been taking a lot of people by surprise to see people in Canada, who often seem so much more accepting of social interdependence, to start pushing back against it with the language of individual freedom,\u201d Anker noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Canadian protesters most likely won\u2019t be surprised by the CBC\u2019s article as they have voiced frustration with a CBC reporter in the past. Last week, a protester told a reporter, <\/span><span>\u201cAll you care about is your paycheck. You sold your soul a long time ago.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The CBC journalist took to Twitter after the incident posting a video of the confrontation with the caption,<\/span><span> \u201cA small sample of what it\u2019s like to be a journalist covering Ottawa right now.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A small sample of what it&#8217;s like to be a journalist covering Ottawa right now. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UsvypVXM92\">pic.twitter.com\/UsvypVXM92<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joseph Tunney (@TunneyTun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TunneyTun\/status\/1491237912855584769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire\u2019s first original film, Shut In, has made its cinematic debut, being met with rave reviews. The Daily Wire is building an alternative to the leftist entertainment industry, one gripping movie at a time. Join us in this mission and stream Shut In today by becoming a Daily Wire <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sunday piece on the leftist Canadian national news network CBC took issue with a certain term that \u201chas taken hold among protesters who are part of the Freedom Convoy\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}