Thanks @anon61221983.
This gave me a sad, to learn that the current debate between the academy and its critics in Canada is so much like the one in the U.S.
That people on campus in both places take offense so much both is and isn’t a big problem, seems to me . I think it’s a problem because so much attention paid to the merely personal level means less attention paid to the systemic level. But I don’t think it’s a big problem in that i don’t think the occasional stifling of freeze peach is some huge problem – that’s just the right playing the victim card, inappropriately enough, as just one more prong in its sustained, well- funded and steadily effective attack on academia (which many on the right attack because they know it’s a site from which a collective of sorts regularly sees through and points out the right’s pro-wealth crap). The right demands a seat at the table to argue positions that academia in general knows are not just the other side in an ongoing debate; they’ve long been exposed as disproven, mendacious bullshit.
