Identity politics limits learning

Re: The man who’s not afraid to call BS, Barbara Kay, April 24

Identity politics puts race at the centre of everything. It victimizes and stereotypes. It blocks the construction of self by assuming that birth characteristics are all that matter. It limits learning resources through book bans. Its censorial chill makes dialogue in schools impossible. It labels any free thinker a racist or an extremist.

Jim Mcmurtry, high school teacher and former principal of Neuchatel Junior College (Switzerland), Surrey, B.C.