Guangzhou, China (Restaurant Notice)
By Jonathan Kay
One of the nice things about writing an op-ed column for this newspaper [National Post] is that you get invited to speak on a lot of “media panels” at academic conferences. I flatter myself to think people are genuinely interested in what I have to say.
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Which is to say, I’m used to being the odd man out.
But I’ve never felt quite so odd as I did last week at Combating Hatred, a day-long biennial anti-racism conference hosted by the University of Toronto for the benefit of the city’s lawyers, judges, police officers, educators and government workers.
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By the time my turn was up, I’d thrown out my prepared speech in favour of a strenuous take-down of what I’d just heard. All of it, I said, was proof that radical anti-racism had become not only a cult of censorship, but a mental toxin as irrational and destructive as racism itself.
And since I was in the mood to make friends, I went further. I told the crowd that conferences like these were actually hurting minority communities by giving them a one-size-fits-all excuse to avoid confronting their problems.
Talk about gang culture, AWOL fathers, teen motherhood and shocking crime statistics in Black communities…… and “diversity consultants” will accuse you of racism.
Connect the dots between Canada’s radicalized mosques and the terror threat……and you get accused of Islamophobia.
Write about the economic dysfunction and social pathologies that fester on native reserves, and Donald Worme accuses you of penning a new Mein Kampf.
By this point, a few audience members were audibly sneering at the angry right-wing freak who, for reasons known only to himself, was ruining this otherwise respectable festival of white guilt.
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In any case, I left the conference feeling more pity than anger. For all their claims to progressive politics, there is something slightly old-fashioned about the people who run these conferences. Many of them have been fighting the evil of racism since the early days. And they have chalked up some spectacular successes during that time: the anti-discrimination provisions in the Charter of Rights, human-rights tribunals in every province, hate-speech laws, gay marriage, etc. Even more importantly, they have managed to make race hatred the ultimate taboo – a subject that can get you fired from any job or ostracized at any social gathering.
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As I sat there, I did indeed feel quite “privileged” – though not because of my race. It was because I am an opinion journalist who can write about these issues candidly. But the
jurists,
NGO (non-gov’t organizations) types,
tenured academics and
public servants staring back at me from the audience enjoyed no such freedom. Whether they believed the
anti-racism orthodoxy or not, they inhabit
politically correct professional milieus that require them to at least
pretend to believe it.
For these people, anti-racism has become a sort of
communist political re-education camp – one you can never leave. >
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