A weekly newspaper in Halifax published this image to go along with an article about the rise of the alt-right on university campuses in the city:
Edward Cornwallis somehow fits in with the pro-Nazi and "shouting at/around Muslims" theme even though he died 150 years before the Nazi party came to power in Germany and 200 years before significant Muslim immigration to Canada.
Article:
https://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/alt-...t?oid=17024407
They point out that you can now identify this group by their haircuts. No word yet if the fashion police are on this.
They interviewed people who can read minds and figure out if someone is a fascist or racist even if they do not explicitly they say are:
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It was during the spring, says the Dalhousie Arts and Social Sciences Society president. The man showed up uninvited to a closed event, taking the space for his own, with his friends spouting subtle racist and fascist ideals. He masked his alt-right politics under a cloak of conservative libertarianism, but Hills says they could see right through it.
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Marxist podcast guy says no to allowing right wing speech because it might lead to hate or even violence:
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Chris Parsons has spent a lot of time on university campuses and spoken out at length about the growing threat of the alt-right. As the co-host of Marxist podcast Dog Island—and occasional columnist for The Coast—he’s also spent a lot of time surrounded by politics. He says he saw this coming.
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For Parsons, it’s not a question of freedom of speech. The presence of these ideas in a university setting is a stepping stone to more hate, even the potential of violence.
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Jordan Peterson is in a grey area:
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For professors trying to navigate their land-mine filled classrooms, where debate and discomfort lie at every turn, it’s about making judgement calls on where the boundaries are.
“Would I want Jordan Peterson’s works to be banned?” asks Mount Saint Vincent University professor Randi Warne. “No. Do I think that he is wrong? Yes. But total suppression and censorship is dangerous. Every university should have places where these kinds of ideas are discussed and sometimes discussing them in historical or literary circumstances is a way to talk about these issues. It’s allowing a safe space in your classroom for people to raise these issues.”
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