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The idea that the chants of SJWs or the wailing of fanatical enviros offer more “authenticity” than the rote recitations and talking-points parroting of legislator politicians, or that there’s more “truth” on a Greenpeace banner than in the pages of Hansard, is a delusion reserved for dedicated hermits and the terminally naive.

What was more “post-fact” than that Berkeley riot/protest last week, when the black-suited, masked protestors “argued” their vandalisms and assaults were speech, and the (aborted) speech of Milo Yiannopoulos was violence? Protest is just as much politics as usual as politics as usual.

These considerations occurred when I read in newspapers and online words spoken at a recent demonstration denouncing Justin Trudeau. A leader of Toronto’s franchise of the U.S. Black Lives Movement, Yusra Khogali, with the angry zest that only activists can mimic successfully, called our Prime Minister a “white supremacist terrorist.”

Now even in a post-fact world, it’s a exertion beyond my limits to see Justin Trudeau as a “white supremacist,” and adding “terrorist” to the chain of abuse overloads the poor neural network altogether. Justin Trudeau — him — a white supremacist?

“There are rooms to rent in the outer planets” sang our poet Purdy, and surely BLM’s Yusra Khogali has checked into the last and farthest out if this is what she believes. If some ordinary, what I have been calling official, politician were to make Khogali’s charge in a legislature, he, she, xe or xem would be out on their various gender-various ears, offered help, and placed on a pariah list forever. For there are some things so far from fact-based that to give mouth to them is a signal of irredeemable intellectual distress.