Kristina

If I believe a speaker will give me something to think about I will go to hear him or her speak.

To me it’s not about whether I will hear a speaker or not. It’s not about agreement. It’s about whether academic institutions can preserve some minimal threshold between what is academic content, and what is largely just entertainment. So if…[Read more]

Are “safe spaces” at universities a threat to free speech?

I suppose the flip side to the same conversation is, “Is populism at universities a threat to academic advancement?”

On balance, I think the answer to both questions ends up being ‘no’, but it feels like much of the ‘free speech’ discussion in my neck of the woods has been centred on dra…[Read more]

As an American living in the Southern US, I am way more aware of the simplistic views held by so many.

That’s the point. You can single out whatever issue you like, but there will always be an issue which political opponents can target and treat as a so-called ‘wedge-issue’. It has nothing to do with gender identity rights per se. Remove any…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:

Great Idea ! Lets focus on 0.6% of the population when there is so much at stake?

Again, there is nothing mutually exclusive in the slightest between ensuring the trans and non-binary individuals are afforded the same human rights protections as everyone else, and passionately advocating for trying to unfuck our environmental…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:

If a 64 year old man wants to falsely “identify” as a 13 year old Japanese school girl that’ s fine. Just don’t expect me to acknowledge it or pretend it is true. Are millennials really so far gone that the truth is subservient to people’s feelings? This is the sort of bullshit that drove the middle to the right. This happened…

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

I have also spent 5 years trying my best to get arrested for blasphemy 🙂

We’re in the midst of repealing ‘blasphemous libel’ in Canada. I don’t know if that law has ever been enforced. Hopefully not within the last century.

Bill C-51 removes some outdated, and in some cases unconstitutional provisions such as the…[Read more]

The Justice Department says Transgender bias is not sex discrimination.

True. Incorporating discrimination protections for trans* people under ‘sex’ may be expedient, but it’s not ideal in part for this reason. Hopefully there will be a push some day (under the right administration) to have protections for gender identity/ expression, and — if…[Read more]

“However there seem to be few asking a much more important question: Why did it take Disney so long…meanwhile excluding 5% of the male population from its films and roles for the last several decades?”

From my perspective, that question has already been asked quite often. When Finding Dory, Zootopia, and the live action Beauty and the Beast w…[Read more]