tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573533210099052368.post7864262248556324844..comments2024-03-16T00:26:41.051-04:00Comments on Scaramouche: Bruce Bawer's New Must-Read--The Victims' Revolution--Examines "Identity Studies," the Toxic Core of PCscaramouchehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04380374512378209528noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573533210099052368.post-3512062664699333572012-09-05T12:04:55.604-04:002012-09-05T12:04:55.604-04:00"The toxic core of Canada's "human r..."The toxic core of Canada's "human rights" malarkey, too" may be inaccurate, so far as it conflates intellectual fashion with real politics (as yesterday in the Quebec election, as in statutes and court judgments etc.) Being bicultural, Canada has always had faster access to fashionable French books (Fanon, Bourdieu etc.) than Americans dependent on translations. Secondly Canada has a distinct (non-American) politics of grievance and redress (Quebec separatism, Indian residential schools etc.) that is not covered by the American curriculum enumerated by Bruce Bawer -- so that Canadian intellectuals can spare less time for the US curriculum if they spend any on the Canadian. Besides, genuine Canadian grievances (e.g. wartime internment of Ukrainian or Japanese ancestors) are a lighter burden than the US historical heritage (of civil war, lynching, etc.) The different Canadian context suggests we owe more to the hippie generation's concept of freedom than to any doctrines of victimhood (even Marx's condemnation of the burden of the past.)DPhilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18143970254135814851noreply@blogger.com