Your Ward News: A Letter The G&M Didn't Print
They got an even shorter version, but so stubbornly persist in their wrongness and hatred of elegant prose that they wouldn't even print that one. Anyway, I didn't want all my work to go for nothing, so here it is: Marcus Gee's Free Speech Views Are Painfully Naive Gee suggests that Toronto citizens respond to Yourward News by debunking its chief author, James Sears. But Sears brags about the many women he has "pinned down against their will", and talks up Hitler and Jesus in the same breath. That rape is bad, and Hitler not like Jesus; these seem self-evident truths and I would personally shun anyone who felt they were at issue. An attempt to convince them towards sanity would likely prove futile. It might also result in online death-threats from Neo-Nazis and members of the "seduction community", as some have already discovered. And I'm not sure Mr. Gee has read wh...