We told you alt-Right Billionaire Canadian Jim Grenon was an extremist – hereβs the proof
TDB has been highly critical of alt-Right Canadian Billionaire Jim Grenon’s role in setting up alt-Right hate Blog The Centrist, his role in supporting legal actions by far right race baiter Julian Batchelor and anti-vax grifter Chantelle Baker plus his problematic ownership of NZME.
We have argued that Grenon is a true believer in alt-Right conspiracy theories and that his alt-Right Hate Blog, The Centrist, has created an important lynchpin in right wing media disinformation and misinformation by harvesting Right Wing Hate Troll comments to disseminate to The Platform, Reality Check Radio and ZB.
The Centrist played a crucial role in the character assassination of Green MP Benjamin Doyle and their anti-Trans, anti-MΔori, anti-Treaty and anti-vaccine content is as ugly as a 4 Chan incel dating site.
So, We told you alt-Right Billionaire Canadian Jim Grenon was an extremist and hereβs the jaw dropping proof…
βStrongly held personal valuesβ: Why billionaire Jim Grenon supported defamation case
Billionaire Jim Grenon has βstrongly held personal values concerning democracy and freedom of expressionβ and that is why he says he became involved in funding a βwholly unsuccessfulβ defamation case against TVNZ on behalf of Julian Batchelor.
Grenon, who is also the largest shareholder of media company NZME, was revealed as a funder of Batchelorβs defamation case in December last year when Judge David Clark ordered him to say who was covering his legal fees when questioned by lawyers.
Grenon also said he was the sole shareholder of The Centrist. However, according to the Companies Register Tameem Barakat is the sole shareholder and director with Grenon ceasing those positions in mid 2023.
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…so much to unpack.
It’s interesting he claims to still control the alt-Right Hate Blog, Β The Centrist, Β because when challenged on his extremism as he was buying NZME, he claimed that he was no longer part of The Centrist when it was being used to highlight his extremism.
βI believe that public discourse is damaged when a large platform labels or characterises others negatively, particularly in ways that are untrue, with the purpose or effect of silencing or discrediting them. In my view, it is important that those subjected to such characterisations have access to the courts to seek vindication if they want to exercise their rights.β
Grenon said he believed the expression of βhonestly held views, including views that are controversial or unpopular, is fundamental to an open and free democratic society”.
The character assassination of political rivals, the smearing of the other and playing to the prejudice of others is a weak defence for free speech.
He is promoting bigotry, not debate.
Grenon isn’t involved with NZME for commercial reasons, he wants ownership for editorial and culture war reasons.
Well past time for this rat to be stripped of citizenship.
grenon supports my suspicions that you don’t need to be emotionally intelligent to become absurdly, insanely, pointlessly, money-rich. You just need to follow the rules and instructions laid down by those prior. Being narcissistic added to being mentally unwell traditionally would help when climbing over others is required. I know a couple or three very, very rich people and they do seem quite mad to me. Even the ones who’d inherited their money, they seem just as nuts albeit it in a more nuanced way. I think one of the most important elements of mandatory voting is to protect ourselves from one another. Are we sure he’s not, in fact, a resident alien?
“A crash-landed alien takes on the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor and slowly begins to wrestle with the moral dilemma of his secret mission on Earth.”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8690918/
Yet another RW Liar! “Grenon also said he was the sole shareholder of The Centrist. However according to the Companies Register, Tameem Barakat is the sole shareholder and director with Grenon ceasing those positions in mid 2023.” So does that mean Grenon came here under false pretences? If so can we get rid of this PEST?