Right Not Wanted

It is a sad day indeed for society when the (supposed) institutions of higher learning are both unwilling to hear disparate points of view and are able to be bullied by increasingly fascistic elements of society.

On Thursday, UBC announced in a tweet that it had has pulled an ad promoting its new swimming pool from Breitbart News, which was once led by a top adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump.

Trump's adviser Steve Bannon has promoted the site as a champion for the so-called alt-right, a U.S.-based offshoot of conservatism that critics allege promotes racist, sexist and homophobic sentiment.

A campaigner at www.sumofus.org — an international group that describes itself as targeting "the growing power of corporations" — raised concerns Thursday about the ad on Twitter, asking the university to take it down.

UBC spokesperson Susan Danard said the ad was pulled shortly after it went up and concerns were raised on social media. 

A university is supposed to be a place where students are encouraged to engage with differing points of view and come to a place of understanding. Today though, universities are more akin to left-wing echo chambers where no other thoughts are permitted, leading to an understanding that to disagree is double-plus-ungood badthink.

When the time comes I'll be sure that my children don't attend UBC.