Falling Victim of the Canadian Thought Police

Kevin MacDonald
Occidental Observer
June 9, 2014

In a recent post I described Ricardo Duchesne’s new website, the Council of European Canadians. Prof. Duchesne’s writing has definitely gotten the attention of the Chinese activists he is targeting (“Vancouver councillor Kerry Jang criticizes New Brunswick professor’s anti-Chinese screed“). The word ‘screed’ implies that Prof. Duchesne’s writing is nothing more than an angry rant, but of course that is far from the case.

As usual with aggrieved minorities in the West without any tradition of free speech in their own cultures, the preferred tactic is to silence any and all criticism. Here the offended Councillor Kerry Jang has complained to the university president, no doubt hoping he will be fired:

The nature of the blog postings and e-mails received are troublesome in that they go beyond fair comment and abuse the privilege of academic freedom by their pejorative nature that is based on poor scholarship.

No specific abuses are provided in the letter, but of course specifics are not necessary to condemn Prof. Duchesne to pariah status among the righteous. The idea that Duchesne is abusing academic freedom is tenuous at best. The Council of European Canadians website does not link to the University of New Brunswick or even describe him as a professor there.

So it will be interesting to see how the university handles it. Let’s hope that free speech prevails. As Prof. Duchesne notes several times, ideas of free speech and other individual rights are uniquely Western. Quite obviously such ideas remain foreign to Councillor Jang despite having roots in Canada going back to the nineteenth century.

The comments to the article show that quite a few Canadians are fed up with the White guilt mongering.  For example

Being an academic himself, I wonder why Mr Jang doesn’t first goes into details about Mr Duchesne supposed “poor scholarship” on the history of the Chinese immigrants in the Vancouver region. Because this issue, the issue of factual accuracy of Mr Duchesne’s research, should be at the heart of the debate, isn’t it?
Unfortunately, heavy-handed accusations about “white supremacy” make it appear as if Mr Jang is more interested at politically intimidating a dissenting voice than engaging in a discussion at eye level. Therefore, I find it difficult to believe that academic freedom is really close to his heart in this matter ….

I suggest adding to the comments and perhaps rereading Prof. Duchesne’s well-reasoned articles on the Chinese in Vancouver to see just how unhinged Mr. Jang’s comments are. I also recommend his other articles — most recently on how academics advocate overcoming human nature and the obvious problems created by multicultural societies in order to lead us to the promised land where those evil Whites will not be a problem any more for the peaceful, non-ethnocentric people that comprise the rest of the world.