Jonathan Kay (Canadian journalist) on freedom of speech on campus - 'Militant identity politics have replaced religion'.

Marcruise · 2015-01-20T19:06:37+00:00

What's great about this particular show is that it moves straight from Charlie Hebdo and the way in which Islamists seek to cower people into silence to (one) way freedom of expression is curtailed in the West - through infiltrating academic institutions and trying to get stuff you disagree with defined as 'hate speech' and taken off campus to make it 'safe' (oh no, WORDS! Someone protect me from the words!).

The relevance of this to the MRM should be obvious, since this has been precisely the strategy used in attempts to shut down the attempt to create men's centres at Ryerson, to create Male Studies courses, to shut down Warren Farrell's public lecture, etc.

But what's really nice about Jonathan Kay's point is that he puts this in a context where you can join the dots. At one time, there were plenty of atheists and secularists who genuinely believed that we'd seen the back of dogmatism. We should all know better now. Dogmatism will always exist wherever we have people who a) want power, b) have no discernible talent, and c) are too emotionally immature to be able to cope with the existential anxiety whereby you don't have all the answers. The death of religion has simply created a vacuum, and it is in this vacuum that SJWs have found their market of weak-minded, power-hungry, emotionally immature people.

To stop this getting too circle-jerky though, I want people to consider the following thought - to what extent is precisely the same observation true of the MRM? How comfortable do you feel when you reflect upon gender issues and realise that there are plenty of scenarios in which women do indeed get a raw deal, and that trying to get a sense of the overall picture is, realistically, impossible?

Handsome_McWonderful · 2015-01-21T04:02:24+00:00

Crap. You said all of the smart words first.

Even though you're the only comment (currently) - have an upvote.

TormundGiantsbain · 2015-01-21T23:04:26+00:00

God that blogger rustled my jimmies hard. White privilege, bah. The lawyer and blonde lady are awesome tho.

Title	Jonathan Kay (Canadian journalist) on freedom of speech on campus - 'Militant identity politics have replaced religion'.
Author	Marcruise
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Date	January 20, 2015 6:54 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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