“Woke” refers to being alert to injustice, and specifically racism, in society. When people disparage wokeness, I want to be charitable and assume that they do not disparage alertness to injustice/racism per se but rather an oversensitivity to it. In other words, like a car alarm that goes off when there is a strong breeze, […]
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On Throwing the First Stone: Thoughts on Trudeau and Blackface
I am not a fan of Justin Trudeau. But it wasn’t always so. While I voted for the NDP during the last federal election, I viewed Trudeau and the Liberals as a welcome break from a decade of Stephen Harper and the Conservatives. Four years have changed my opinion once again, and in this fall […]
