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Re: No Quarter In Pronoun ‘ Debate,’ Christie Blatchford, Nov. 21

And so t he pendulum s wings. Unfortunately, it swings exactly where we would not expect it to swing — in our “learned institutions.” University of Toronto’s tenured Prof. Jordan Peterson is openly castigated by the university he serves because he refuses to stop using language that others have arbitrarily decided creates marginalization. The CBC has decided that a costume party held by a group of Queen’s students fuelled by alcohol is racist. This is the beginning of puritanism, or as it more rightly should be defined: censorship. The sad part is that the pendulum is already swinging and it is unlikely that it can be stopped. Ask a reasonable-thinking white ( can we say that?), heterosexual ( can we say that?), middle- aged (can we say that?) male (can we say that?) if he ( can we say that?) is comfortable to publicly comment on social issues in the news, and the answer will be an overwhelming no, because the comment will be reported with his gender, race, or sexual preference; it will not be about the opinion. This is bias and censorship. Paul MacKay, Calgary