A curious intervention from an unlikely outlet: The National Post (one of Conrad Black’s former papers and a voice-box for Canadian conservatism)

 

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/10/24/chris-selleys-full-pundit-the-west-is-in-says-the-east/

 

 

From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Laura Lepper
Sent: 26 October 2011 02:42
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Subject: Re: Globe and Mail columnist attacks Canadian academic geography

 

Here is a response to one of the articles Warren is referring to. Significant numbers of people have already called for her to be fired over her  racist comments. Not sure about engaging with her now when she should have been fired years ago...and if folks do engage with her now, her past dangerous and obscene remarks should be central in any response, I think.

 

http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/2266

Laura

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Warren Bernauer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Garbage?  Yes.  New low?  Not so sure.  I have trouble seeing her trashing academics as a "new low" relative to her rants about Aboriginal Peoples...which were far more blatantly racist.

Warren Bernauer
York University

Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:07:08 +0100
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Subject: Globe and Mail columnist attacks Canadian academic geography

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Here's the article. This kind of polemical garbage is Wente's bread and butter, but this represents a new low...

 

 

you can download the chapter in question from the UBC website here: http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=299173304

 

 

Incidentally, Pierre Berton never said 'A Canadian is someone who knows how to have sex in a canoe.' It's 'common knowledge' that this quote belongs to Berton but he's on record as saying that he never actually did. 

 

 

Andrew Baldwin
Lecturer in Human Geography
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Durham University

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