Not Rex Murphy: Lessons from the Pride Toronto 2010 censorship debacle

 Pride Toronto made what many considered a highly divisive mistake last month, when they decided to censor the language of one participating group, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, or QuAIA.

Free-speech advocates created an uproar, and Pride Toronto was eventually forced to listen, and rescind the QuAIA ban. What have we learned from all of this?

Shawn Syms is this week’s Not Rex commentator and weighs in on the controversy.

Tor Sandberg

Tor Sandberg

Tor Sandberg is the program director for rabbletv. When Tor was 8 years old, the two schoolyard bullies, Allen and Roger, made up a mean little ditty about him. “Let’s tear Tor in the Northwest...