political correctness
How a cancelled yoga class stretches the point on cultural appropriation
The University of Ottawa’s yoga classes weren’t debasing anyone’s culture. But we lose nothing by listening, rather than overreacting hastily.
PC Wars II: The Imperialists Strike Back
Is our current culture really being choked out by political correctness?
The boy in the burka
Sun News dressed a minor in a burka and sent him to the liquor store, for some reason.
Reverse sexism at Simon Fraser
Long live the Men’s Centre
The Cougars? The Redmen? Oh, how offensive!
The naming of sports teams is now fraught with peril
No laughing matter
From the front lines of the war on comedy, Le Devoir chronicles the death of the funny:
A missed opportunity for diversity
Mark Steyn on the opening ceremonies: Where was the genuinely bizarro cavalcade?
Come to think of it, why use “volunteers” to run the Olympics?
Don’t tell anybody, but I’m rather tickled that the Queen Charlotte Islands have been given back the name of the slaveholding empire that was once centred there. Such a cheeky gesture! So politically incorrect! So contrary to the stifling liberal spirit of our age! It is almost literally as if Mississippi got renamed Whitetopia; and yet the progressives are simply falling over themselves with naïve praise. I raise a glass to you and shoot you a sly wink, Government of British Columbia!
Major Nidal Hasan had an enabler
All those red flags but no one did anything. Political correctness took the lives of 14 people.
Megapundit: I can’t believe it’s margarine!
Must-reads: Daphne Bramham on Daniel Igali; Richard Gwyn on foreign aid; Colby Cosh on margarine; Dan Gardner on torture.