For years now the Left has shown itself eager to claim hatred as the motive for anyone who opposes its worldview. This impulse has become a poisonous social force – elevating identity politics, quashing freedom, driving cancel culture and threatening the very foundation of Western liberal democracy. But where did it come from? Collin May, a former Chair of the Alberta Human Rights Commission who himself experienced cancellation, explores the deep origins in this thoughtful and wide-ranging essay. From Ancient philosophers and early theologians through Renaissance scholars and fashionable modern intellectuals, May traces this dark pathology’s evolution and explains why it’s so dangerous.
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It’s a rare and beautiful thing to see Canada’s courts strike a blow for individual freedom, but that’s what happened in an Ottawa courthouse last