Death threats, Jordan Peterson and me: My journey into the world of Pitchfork Politics
Many have written about the huge deterioration of online political discourse. It cuts across the political spectrum. As does the spread of conspiracy theory and political paranoia. But on the far right there is a disturbing pattern of how toxic online fights turn to threat.
In my case, I ran afoul of the conspiracy movement for reposting a tweet calling out Conservative candidate Roman Baber and Pierre Poilievre for exploiting the death of Sheila Lewis. Hers is the sad story. She was refused a life-saving transplant because of her paranoia over getting the COVID-19 vaccine. Ms Lewis spent her last years fighting a series of losing battles with the courts over her freedom.
It wasn’t surprising that Baber, who had been kicked out of Doug Ford’s caucus for refusing to support reasonable pandemic efforts, had championed Lewis online. What concerned me was that his post was promoted by Conservative party leader Poilievre.
“Disinformation and conspiracy costs lives,” I wrote in response.
The result was an avalanche of abuse. Then the death threats started… |Read more https://www.thestar.com/opinion/death-threats-jordan-peterson-and-me-my-journey-into-the-world-of-pitchfork-politics/article_7a0bae9a-9bed-5f17-b742-377ed69d5875.amp.html| www.thestar.com/opinion/death-…
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