Commentary Last month, Quebec Premier François Legault took to Facebook to criticize “radical activists” who he said are taking political correctness to extremes. He was in part reacting to the suspension last September of a francophone University of Ottawa professor for using the N-word in class. “If we don’t defend someone who is a victim of this, we’re playing the game of the radicals,” he wrote. “I understand that it can be scary, but we have to stand up.” Other party leaders at the National Assembly reportedly agreed with Legault. Many Quebec students are equally resistant to what they consider the excesses of “woke” politics. La Presse, Quebec’s largest mainstream newspaper, took the measure of their discontent through interviews of anglophone and francophone students at both French and English universities in Montreal. (My translations follow.) For example, Sandrine Masri, a McGill University law student, recounted an incident in a course …
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