The Felton follies

Terry Glavin has more about the Greg Felton mess in Vancouver. A few people have come up with creative ways for the Vancouver Public Library to pull itself out of the hole into which it's dug itself:

[The city librarian's] version of events has now put him in the dodgy position of having to approve or deny a written request from Vancouver doctor Joel Shapiro to go the extra mile during Freedom To Read Week for two more library events - one about the "Mohammed cartoons" controversy (which refuses to go away) and another about the bloodcurdling tally of racism and genocide in Islamic states.

And Howard Rotberg, author of Second Generation Radical: The Struggle Against The Second Holocaust, has also written to Whitney with a convincing case that the library would be wise to showcase some other authors and "banned" books, concurrently with Felton, to get out of the mess it's made with some semblance of dignity.

My question: would Greg Felton, the great defender of free speech, be willing to share his platform with "hatemongering Asper Empire bottomfeeders" whose freedom of expression is being threatened?

Damian P.

Posted by damian at February 15, 2008 07:40 AM