Adventures in libel law: How to you defame a bunch of old buildings?
Just when you thought libel law couldn’t get any dumber…
Interesting:
Suddenly the same academia that teaches that “all intercourse is rape” is going wobbly on definitions — when these definitions might have expensive real life consequences for the institution…
York University said it gave a notice for libel to Toronto Life and Katherine Laidlaw, the writer of an article alleging that its campus has become a “hunting ground for sexual predators.”***
Interesting:
Suddenly the same academia that teaches that “all intercourse is rape” is going wobbly on definitions — when these definitions might have expensive real life consequences for the institution…
Shoukri said the Toronto Life article makes several false connections. The article reported there were “at least 17 sexual offences, including assaults and harassment” on York’s campus in 2012. But the president said it was misleading to categorize all these incidents as rape, as the Criminal Code of Canada says the charge of sexual assault is a “broad, inclusive charge that covers the widest possible range of sexual offences, from any form of unwanted sexual contact to rape.”
‘The reality of transgender people is also a great natural and moral truth…’
As of sometime, what, two years ago, no?
RELATED: Derb explains why we are doomed…
RELATED: Derb explains why we are doomed…
I went to a talk addressed by social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, who wrote this really terrific book about our moral faculty. The big takeaway from the book (though there is much, much more in it than just this) is that our moral intuitions can be modeled in five dimensions: Care/Harm, Fairness/Cheating, Loyalty/Betrayal, Authority/Subversion, and Sanctity/Degradation.
Listening to him, though, I felt a breath of chill wind.
The left-liberal outlook, with its scant regard for those last three dimensions, is completely dominant in the Western world. So will our concerns for loyalty, authority, and sanctity just fade away?
Humanity’s long aversion to homosexuality, for instance, is surely based on the notion that it’s degrading. Now that we are not allowed to think that, is our Sanctity/Degradation module weakened? Will it atrophy and die?
Or is our disgust just retargeted to something else—to homophobia, perhaps?
