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Title: Go back to U.S. if you don't like it here, Quebec MP tells Canadian professor who said province is racist
Category: Provincial Politics
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2021-03-25 06:26:35
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

[bootlegga]

I may not like all the things Attaran says, but I believe he is free to say them.

However, one of these days, the University of Ottawa may decide that his outspokenness is a liability to them and it may cost Attaran his job, which I'm also fine with. Free speech is not always consequence free speech.

[rickc]

So we have a government official telling a Canadian citizen that he should leave his own country? It sounds like the MP is the one that should be censured. And yes I mean censured, not censored. The old "love it or leave it" shtick is for intellectual lightweights that have nothing to debate with.

This is why we have tenure, so professors are free to voice unpopular opinions so as to challenge students to think for themselves. Sadly todays academia is going in the opposite direction. Today students are being taught to toe the line. Anyone voicing unpopular opinions are censored, and expelled. Schools today are one big indoctrination center. That meat grinder scene from The Wall comes to mind.

[raydan]

Now I don't fault him for his opinion but I don't like broad statements like this. Better if he'd just say that racism is a problem in Québec... but that's just ignoring that it's a problem everywhere.

When he says that his opinion is fact without backing it up is where I have a problem.