A professor of theology and ethics at McGill University believes Canada is showing disturbing parallels with Nazi Germany as previous societal values are being abandoned..In an interview with the Western Standard, Douglas Farrow said it’s one example of many where lobbyists, government, and business have aligned with a counterculture..“It's astonishing how many people are behaving in a rather unhinged way, and people who run big corporations are certainly not exempt from that. So perhaps they are just manifesting some of the craziness that we're witnessing in the universities and colleges, in the media, and in many other spheres of life,” Farrow said..“At times it’s a confusion borders on madness, so that people are thinking and acting in ways that simply make no sense morally, or in other spheres of practicality, don't make financial sense. They don't make good government sense. They don't make scientific or medical sense.”.Farrow said the pressure on corporations to adopt environmental, social, and governance stances is only one part of the spectrum of ideas they are adopting, most of which were pushed in the school system..“People should not underestimate the influence of the education sector. Everybody goes to school, and they push sexual ideas on children who should not be sexualized…even if the discussions make good sense--which they don't, they're mostly manipulative,” Farrow said..“There’s this process of pushing the special interests of groups that have hobby horses, some of them sexual, some of them climate related, some of them this, some of them that, but we've been pushing this more and more from primary school onwards. And so the reach of academia is very, very broad.”.Last month, French fashion brand Balenciaga had a photo shoot that included BDSM ads involving children for which they later apologized. And Quebec fashion retailer Simons wrapped up an ad campaign glorifying the final days of Jennyfer Hatch, a 37-year-old non-terminal B.C. woman with chronic pain from a degenerative condition who chose medical assistance in dying..“To get people to think something is normal, even beautiful, that we once thought abnormal, immoral, and very ugly — if that's the goal, the pincer movement between corporate promotion of it and promotion in the universities is very effective…[though] it doesn't reach everybody, because there are people who have long since stopped listening to any of this stuff,” Farrow said..“One of the things that our society has to face up to is that there are very few taboos left. I have seen even the odd article promoting cannibalism, or at least asking us to question why we would question it. There are very few taboos left and a society without taboos is a society that disintegrates, definitely.”.On May 9, Farrow wrote a Substack article to draw attention to conflicts of interest by McGill University and the University of Toronto by signing a “lucrative deal with Moderna that is backed by federal and provincial governments.”.In McGill Joins Team Moderna, Farrow wrote, “the universities—while loudly bombarding their students and staff with vaccination propaganda and manipulating them through punitive mandates— were quietly pursuing formal partnerships with the very companies that make and market the mandated products.”.Farrow said the academic, governmental, corporate alignment overturning traditional Canadian values has a regrettable precedent..“There are very disturbing parallels with Germany. And it started before the Nazis. It started in the liberal, almost giddily liberal, Weimar Republic and carried over into the Nazi regime who backed it with force,” he said..The professor pointed to Allowing the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life, an influential book of essays released January 1, 1920, fully 13 years prior to the Nazis gaining power..“It was a call from leading people in medicine and psychiatry to abandon Germany's laws against euthanasia, and even euthanasia that's basically involuntary. Well, by the time by the time the National Socialists in the ‘30s had pushed that agenda forward, we got into the real ugliness and wickedness that eventually led to the Nuremberg trials and to the Nuremberg Code,” Farrow explained..“So here we are today. Barely three quarters of a century behind us, with all the talk about never again, and we are doing it again in this country. We're getting exactly the same kind of arguments, and now they are being legislated. And they're being promoted by corporations like Simons in this case. Where do we think it's going to lead?”
