2. It's a mistake to see Kay leaving Walrus only through prism of "cultural appropriations" story. Straw, camal's back, etc.
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3. Kay's entire tenure at Walrus marked by controversy & staff turnover. Canadaland good guide:http://www.canadalandshow.com/meltdown-walrus/ …
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4. You can believe (as I do) that Kay improved magazine and also be concerned that he had many quarrels with freelancers.
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5. Key problem all along is Walrus is mainstream magazine & Kay is right wing provocateur. Imagine Ann Coulter editing Atlantic Monthly.
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6. so, if you write about Walrus story as "PC run amok" or "free speech under threat" you are doing it wrong.
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7. Since people have objected to Ann Coulter at Atlantic Monthly let's say: imagine Fred Barnes editing The New Yorker.
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Honestly: I've enjoyed your writing for ages but this analogy is so egregiously wrong that it calls into question everything you've written.
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The Fred Barnes analogy or the Ann Coulter one?
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Kay is skeptical of certain kinds of virtuous groupthink, but he is not that kind of gleeful-hateful provocateur. It's an inapt comparison.
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I'd say his writing on Native issues is very extreme, their radicalness hidden perhaps by his reasonable tone.
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But I understand why some people find analogy far-fetched, which is why I why I rescinded it.
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Hadn't seen the rescinding, but Kay's thinking on many (most?) issues has changed enormously since 2001, when he wrote the article you cite.
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(But I'm glad to see that you rescinded it.)
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