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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
First, as much as it may baffle you that this sort of thing could occur at all, it should be kept in mind that these cases are the exception, not the rule. They garner attention because they are absurd and ridiculous, not because they're common. Of course, the caveat is that they shouldn't happen at all, and though rare, there are a large and ever-growing number of examples of this stuff happening. It speaks to an underlying broken campus system of homogeneity of moral thought that, on occasion, bubbles up and results in events like this one.
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Do you listen to the CBC? The hectoring pieties of those professors in the transcript could have come straight from the mouth of Carol Off, Michael Enright, or Anna Maria Tremonti.
So while I agree that identarian moral panic isn't widespread in Canada (I doubt more than 10 or 15 per cent of Canadians subscribe to its dogma) its concentration in academia and the media give it outsized power to suppress dissent. People are getting
fired and
forced to resign all over Canada's cultural landscape for transgressions against the dogma. And many more are keeping their heads down, their mouths shut, and trying to avoid attracting the attention of the mob.