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The University was finally able to get rid of that prof, and I was grateful for that. It’s possible - actually, probable - that this #ucp policy would make it more difficult for the University to terminate someone who is publishing and teaching demonstrably anti-Semitic content.
We have hate speech laws in this country. We don’t need any confusion about this just so the #ucp can invite the incel army or the white supremacist hordes on to campuses across Alberta and give them free reign.
That’s what this policy will do. And that’s why it’s a stupid idea designed as red meat to the Jordan Peterson base of the increasingly authoritarian Canadian Right.
TL;DR: the UCP is about to bring in a policy that would have likely permitted an anti-Semite to continue to share his views on the University of Lethbridge campus. That’s wrong and all reasonable people should think so. #ableg
There’s no room for fucking around w/ anti-Semitism, hate speech, islamophobia, or violent misogyny. This stuff kills, it’s growing worldwide & we can’t let it spread. I won’t stand for it in my constituency and I’ll speak out every time I see policies that allow it to take hold.
Oh and if you don’t like the language, my response would be this: if history remembers me as the lady who wasn’t sufficiently polite or ladylike about racism or anti-semitism, I’m ok with that.
