🇨🇦 Margaret Atwood tells journalists to search deep within your hearts over Steven Galloway coverage

Eight years late, and now the media class gets a scolding for discovering due process after the reputational execution is already old news. Even Margaret Atwood, hardly a right-wing bomb thrower, is telling Canada’s journalists they mostly ignored the firing and blacklisting of Steven Galloway, then showed up only when it was safe to pretend they cared. A judge’s review found on a balance of probabilities he had not committed sexual assault, and he later received $167,000 from UBC through arbitration, as reported.

This is the Canadian institutional model in one ugly little case: accusation first, career destruction second, facts maybe someday. The same media and academic crowd forever sermonizing about human rights suddenly went mute when mob justice was fashionable and due process was treated like heresy. Atwood’s line about guilty by identity lands because everyone knows exactly how this works now. DEI-era moral vanity, cowardly editors, compliant universities, and a culture that treats evidence as an inconvenience when the narrative feels righteous enough.

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