Wilfrid Laurier professor William McNally has published a comprehensive article in the National Post:
It’s a classic catch-22: the issue we wanted investigated was deemed outside the scope of the only body able to provide a remedy. As Pardy said, a right without remedy is useless. The government’s policy is useless.
The “woke” crowd controlling our campuses are very much awake to this fact. They know they can censor and harass their ideological opponents with impunity, and they are. We need another solution.
Until change occurs, universities in Canada are not safe places … for ideas.
This comment from Trevor Wesley is spot-on:
Basically everything Jordan Peterson warned us about has come true. Particularly his insistence that when we are forced to pretend we believe things that are absurd so as not to offend, we offend our own conscience. This is a slippery slide that is in line with what Communist states DO. They make you adopt positions you personally do not agree with, and hence pretend. We now have a whole host in Ottawa who pretend, according to how the wind blows. Not an authentic soul to be found anywhere. This is not the way to lead a nation, or a university, or how to train up young people in the world. Free speech, free thought, and the ability to digest and assess truth claims should be at the fore. If something must bully its way into the room, it likely cannot withstand rational argument. We can easily see from that, we have been overthrown by some quite unworthy people and unsound ideas. Me, I refuse to join the confused. Time to take back the nation.
If the University students have control why should the Professors bother teaching just go sit at the desk and take home a pay cheque or ALL Professors boycott the Universities but it needs to All Professors or it will not work….your making a statement!!
Blue turtle,
It is a moot point.
The “professors” cannot, and will not, make a statement in any semblance of solidarity on behalf of the rotted out institutions that they hold tenure and apparent tradidition within.
They are just as woke as their coddled and indoctrinated students are.
Western universities were established upon Judeo Christian foundations.
They have eroded those foundations.
Peterson and others before him, such as Harold Bloom, have opined about it.
Defund the pieces of woke shit and form new ones.
Etc.
Brings this song to mind.
There’s a reason its not in the top 40…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2lGkEU4Xs
at the root of it all is the chinese comminist party……… who owns our government
I’m expecting the fully armed, black uniformed gestapo to show up at my door anytime now for comments made on the internet over the last 20 years……………….
It sounds like a schoolyard where the bullies are in charge and there are no adults to be found.
To paraphrase the sign at the entrance to Auschwitz, “Woke sets you free”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8faLqc8dcoU
I was about to laugh, and then it occurred to me.
Shootings occur most often in gun-free-zones.
See the problem?
But,sadly, yes. Creativity is in decline through the West. Or should I say, useful creativity?
Decline? Certainly not. You just don’t find it at universities.
After rethinking it, and accidentally posting my thought on another blog….
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News at 11:00…
“There was an idea attack at a university today by an impromptu speaker, leaving one student thinking and several skeptical. The speaker was driven away by angry purple haired faculty, and the injured students are in quarantine until they conform.”
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“Quite unworthy people”. So very true.
If you get a chance to read Lindsay Shepherd’s recently-released book – Diversity and Exclusion – I would highly recommend it.
The recent NP articles by Haskell and now McNally are frustrating in that despite the efforts of Ms Shepherd in shining a light on what is taking place at our universities, they continue to produce significant numbers of flying monkeys to join any outrage-party they are directed to.
It’s not just in this context where universities are free of ideas.
While I was working on my Ph. D., I found that it’s not a good idea to be too original or to work on an obscure subject that few people are interested in. One should only do research on topics which bring in funding and are popular with faculty.
It is not just Canadian Universities.
The FLCCC (Front Line Covid Critical Care aliance) has been deplatformed, put into Twitter jail and censored by 8 or 10 media organizations. The FLCCC’s crimes have been to discuss prevention and treatment for COVID-19. The members of this organization are five of the most published and respected specialists from around the world.
The US government through its health agencies has decided that the only pure truth comes from them.
https://odysee.com/@FrontlineCovid19CriticalCareAlliance:c/FLCCC-WEEKLYUPDATE-072121:f
I worry about the future of the West.
Time to take back the nation?
From what or who? The people who think that Justin’s fascism is super-peachy?
I say stand back and let it all die.
That’s an outstanding comment by Mr. Wesley. I agree with every word.
So many people are so far behind the curve I doubt they will ever catch up.
This is very good news. Now Canadian parents can safely relax, and cease worrying or planning for how they will manage to put their kids through such Colleges!
The money will be far better employed helping them buy their first home, or helping them set themselves up in trades.
Good times ahead?
I always thought of Canada as basically a nation better suited to being hewers of wood and drawers of water. Canada should be a manufacturing and resource-extraction powerhouse. Who cares about overpriced worthless degrees anyway?
Gawd, I thought it was bad back in the 90s. More reason now for young men to go into the trades.
last week a childhood friend (with a bsc & mba) asked me to give him a hand making a concrete flower planter in the back alley behind his place – the city has banned automobiles from using the alley – it’s a green initiative 🙂
i suggested a wooden alt, but i think the romance of something more permanent got the better of him. he built the forms (that swelled & bowed) and bought seven (7) bags of pre-mix. on arrival, it took about 4 seconds of visual comparison to let him know he was short of cement. his calculation of cubic volume was dismal. we ended up using an additional 17 bags.
it will make your hair curl to know that for the last 10 years of his career (worked at mcgill registration for the other 30) he was a “career advisor” at a high school in vancouver.
we have learned not to discuss politics but, he does make me laugh.