July 16, 2013
Source: Professor Benjamin Levin
So last week, those of us who”ve long criticized the provincial educational establishment’s head-slapping inanity”the celebrations of Afrocentrism, Che Guevara, and cross-dressing; the sex-segregated “mosque” at one public school; the graphic gay-sex how-to poster at another”threw ourselves a little Schadenfreude party.
After all, when we”d mused that all this “sex ed” stuff looked more like a way for jaded, bitter grown-ups to groom future fresh sexual conquests (on our dime), we were condemned as “rightwing reactionary homophobes” who should leave education to the “educators””or as many of them pointedly prefer, “co-parents.”
(Leaving aside the specifics of that particularly perverse provincial curriculum: If public-school sex education is so effective, wherever do all those painfully ignorant Loveline callers keep coming from?)
Predictably, Levin’s fellow elites in the media and elsewhere erupted in a scolding chorus of “Alleged! Accused! He’s just accused!” “cries rarely heard when, say, fat, gauche, “rightwing” Mayor Rob Ford of Toronto was “seen smoking crack on a cell phone video!!” Months later, that video still hasn”t surfaced, but that didn”t stop liberals from tweeting the rumor around the globe.
Or take the fate of another professor, a western, conservative one. Tom Flanagan, a lifelong Conservative Party brain-truster, recently wondered aloud in a university classroom about whether or not “merely” viewing child porn in one’s own home should be a crime.
Flanagan, being a libertarian egghead and all, spitballed that such criminalization was “a real issue of personal liberty. To what extent [should] we put people in jail for doing something in which they do not harm another person?”
Literally overnight, Flanagan lost every job he had, including his professorship. (The University of Lethbridge hurriedly announced his “retirement.”) He was pounced on left and right, even from the office of the prime minister he”d helped elect.
It’s hard not to notice the drastic contrast between the establishment’s reaction to Flanagan’s offhanded bull-session musings and Levin’s (alleged) crimes.
I don”t know if Levin is guilty of anything. Canadian cops are increasingly corrupt and incompetent.
But it would be so damn funny if the incriminating “evidence” on Benjamin Levin’s confiscated computer turns out to be copies of that explicit sex-ed curriculum he and his fellow “educators” wanted to shove down thousands of young throats.
