National Post: 'It might be thought that with the decline in the centrality of religion and the huge embrace of secularism in western society that there would be an equal decline in doctrine. We may see doctrine as being the great catalogue of dogmas: those “truths” you must believe, those you must never challenge and those that are to be passed inflexibly on to young people with all the force and efficiency of indoctrination....
'...You will be cancelled, fired, your books removed from libraries. You will be shunned by the media and universities, which will remove you from lectures and ban you from campus.
'Multinational businesses that do not publicly declare themselves to have wholly embraced inclusivity and the creed of anti-racism and every shade and hue of the sexual-identity rainbow are mercilessly anathematized — boycotts are called for, editorials thunder in denunciation and Hollywood gasps in horror.
'Anyone who challenges critical race theory and all its offshoots must prepare for a fusillade denunciations as a “racist” and a “bigot.”
'How did this thick fog of repression and insisted upon truths take such hold? That takes a long answer, but one element can be easily identified: it starts with the schools, the school boards and government departments of education.'
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