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• KATHLEEN MASSEY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 15, 2023 • ( 8 )

  For those of us intent on alerting those who’ve yet to be disabused of the positive effects of wokeism on the university, the Widdowson affair is the gift that keeps on giving. The latest, which came to my attention only… Read More ›

• THE HODES/RODYCH DEBATE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 15, 2023 • ( 0 )

  This entry will make no sense unless first you read these: Hodes, C. (2023). A Settler Colonialism Induced Feminist Snap: A case study in IRS denialism and institutional violence in Canada. Feminist Asylum: A Journal of Critical Interventions, 1(2). https://doi.org/10.5195/faci.2023.107 , https://feministasylum.pitt.edu/faci/article/view/107,… Read More ›

• NOTES ON THE EFFECTS OF WOKEISM ON THE ACADEMY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 18, 2023 • ( 7 )

  I’ve been asked to serve sometime next month on a panel discussion on the effects of wokeism on the academy. In no particular order of importance, here’s what I’m likely to say: One element of wokeism is (what Jonathan Haidt… Read More ›

• GASLIGHTING

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 17, 2023 • ( 2 )

  Killing means to end a life of, well, pretty much anything. Murder means to wrongfully end the life, but presumably only of another human being. To discriminate means to ascertain a difference and act accordingly. So, for example, she has… Read More ›

• REVISIONIST APOLOGETICS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 14, 2023 • ( 0 )

  If you’re ever in court, and you want to inject a little humour into the proceedings, try speaking into your flip phone, “Beam me up, Scotty!” But if instead you think a little honesty might help your case, try “You… Read More ›

• FLY SOUP

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 11, 2023 • ( 1 )

  Man dining in a high-end French restaurant. “Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup.” “Mais non, Monsieur, zis iz vly zoup!” Why does it matter? Because if it’s a fly in my soup I’m entitled to an apology and dinner… Read More ›

• A LITTLE PERSPECTIVE ON PERSPECTIVES

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 4, 2023 • ( 0 )

  In the rest of the world … Stop right there. When I talk about “the rest of the world”, what I mean – as would any white supremacist European settler colonialist – are places other than Western Europe, North America… Read More ›

• WHY I DON’T GIVE INTERVIEWS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 4, 2023 • ( 2 )

  Last week the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom, on my behalf and that of two other complainants, filed a Charter challenge against the University of Lethbridge for cancelling a talk I had organised by Frances Widdowson on the effects of… Read More ›

• ONE TIN SOLDIER

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 26, 2023 • ( 0 )

  Man steps into a crowded hotel elevator. “What floor?” asks the woman closest to the buttons. “Ladies lingerie,” he answers. Everyone laughs. She doesn’t. She’s from Women’s Studies, so of course she files a sexual harassment complaint against him. It’s… Read More ›

• HOMO HUMOROSO

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 25, 2023 • ( 2 )

  The recent spate of public Quran burnings, first in Sweden and now in Denmark, and Moslem countries calling in their ambassadors – as if these demonstrations were state-sponsored – goes to the very core of the freedom of expression debate,… Read More ›

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