Barbara Kay: Will 2020 will be the year of reason in the cancel-culture wars?

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Most people, McGill’s Prof. Veissière believes, want to see more ‘brave conversations’ on difficult topics

In the hard news business, it is well understood that “if it bleeds, it leads.” In cultural news, the same principle applies. Not a day goes by that we don’t see a story of a panel discussion in jeopardy or cancelled, a controversial film withdrawn, or an academic on the “incorrect” side of a cultural debate de-platformed. One could be forgiven for assuming that cancel culture reigns supreme in the public forum.

Within the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University, the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry pursues and promotes research, training and consultation in the domains of social and cultural psychiatry.

That’s not to say there was no opposition. Queer McGill issued a warning on its Facebook page, repeating the canard about “conversion therapy” and advising friends that the talk would be given from “a non-trans perspective.” Prof. Veissière made a point of meeting with Queer McGill to hear their complaints and concern.

Prof. Veissière also sent out a call for support on a sex research email list. Other scholars then shared it on Twitter. Responses were intended for both the administration at McGill and the public record, to show people or groups who had asked for the talk to be cancelled that there was widespread support for Dr. Zucker. Letters attesting to Dr. Zucker’s eminence in his field flowed in from authoritative colleagues, such as Northwestern University psychology professor J.

 

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Only if natpo shuts down

I love how this publication wheels out the corpse of Barbara Kay to write the dumbest article imaginable every so often. One of Canada's great traditions.

What war? Can you really call it a war when only one side is participating? More of an invasion I'd say.

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