Jonathan Kay: UWO Student Punished for Questioning "Decolonization" of Academia

I appreciate Kay's attempt to explain the actions of the UWO commissars...but I don't think it works. What they did was wrong and anti-scholarly. You can almost always come up with some kind of excuse for people...but not all such stories genuinely excuse. Kay may be right that there were institutional pressures leading the "indigenous" faculty-member to consider herself a prophet, immune from questioning. This may partially explain her soft totalitarian violations of her responsibilities as a professor--but it doesn't excuse them. Progressive totalitarians may be, to some extent, swept up by larger forces--but that might as well be the good Nazi excuse--she was basically just following orders...