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Old 01-26-2018, 11:05 AM   #170
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It honestly doesn't strike you as strange that the top-selling book on Amazon in both the U.S. and Canada is written by a Canadian and yet it did not warrant a mention in CBC's 21 non-fiction books by Canadians to read in early 2018? Do you really think that wasn't a deliberate omission owing to the CBC braintrust's hatred of Peterson's politics?

The CBC has essentially no-platformed the most prominent Canadian intellectual in the world today because they don't like what he says. If you're okay with that, I think you need to admit that you simply want the CBC to be a mouthpiece for your own ideological beliefs.
His book didn’t make the Globe and Mail or the National Post’s lists of best 100 books of 2017 either so, no, I don’t find it that strange. There is at least one reasonable explanation that does not involve a CBC conspiracy.

In terms of my own biases, I listen to CBC radio in the car regularly. I sometimes watch the National. Generally, I like CBC’s programming. But I don’t want it to be a mouthpiece for my political views (indeed, I frequently disagree with members of its panels on the National). Does that make me biased? Well, yeah, probably a little.
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