In this article originally published in the British journal, Humanistically Speaking, the Edan Tasca of the Centre for Inquiry Canada and I examine the phenomenon of Wokism, which can be understood as a secular religion or as a mind virus that has infected humanist as well as many other organizations. We argue that, to achieve […]
Paul Nathanson Submitted: 24 January 2024 Last night, I watched Nazi Town, U.S.A,[1] a documentary on the rise of American Nazi movements during the 1930s, notably the German-American Bund of Fritz Kuhn and the America First Committee of Charles Lindbergh. This is a useful production, because not many people remember these movements. After all, they […]
In light of today’s news, I thought I would try to take a step back and provide perspective on what this is really all about. I first became concerned about @Harvard when 34 Harvard student organizations, early on the morning of October 8th before Israel had taken any military actions in Gaza, came out publicly […]
Carey Linde, former 60s radical, was the first lawyer in Canada to live and practice on reserve, the first to introduce the concept of shared parenting between divorced parents in family law, and the first to defend a parent in a transgender case. He has been in trouble with the authorities more than once. For […]
Hello humanists, Here is an excellent interview with a Canadian who immigrated to Cuba 30 years ago. When he returned he said it felt as though he had been in a time warp: https://youtu.be/Ext164Q2dZk Lloyd
In 1993 the Humanist Association of Canada established an on-line discussion forum that was open to all humanists. That forum endured until late 2021. Read about the circumstances surrounding its cancellation: Requiem for a Discussion Page | Humanist Freedoms
Full speed backward: Woke Puritanism has now penetrated even the CRTC to the point the CRTC thinks it can tell Radio-Canada (and CBC) what to say and what not to say down to a single word. This is a CRTC attitude that the law ruled out thirty years ago. Pierre Trudel, Le Devoir July 5th, […]
The following article was written by a transwoman who is critical of J.K. Rowling and gender critical feminists. Nonetheless, the writer concedes that Rowling has real concerns about safe spaces for women, and that a dialogue should be undertake to resolve these issues guided by compassion and understanding. This was enough to have the article […]
As a psychologist, I am intrigued by attempts to get into the minds of those with a totalitarian worldview. This essay gets at the similarities between the psychology of torture and the psychology of cancel culture. Remember, never apologize for imagined wrongs. https://quillette.com/2021/09/09/the-good-death-cancel-culture-and-the-logic-of-torture/