The Journal de Montréal published an article yesterday entitled «Je ne crois plus que l’homme a marché sur la Lune»: Jeremy Filosa suspendu indéfiniment par le 98,5 FM pour des propos conspirationnistes tenus en ondes (https://shorturl.at/1N1eW). Its meaning is the English translation of this post. Wow.
To begin with, and of course, Bambi does not share the opinion of Mr. Jeremy Filosa, sports journalist. She does not know why, and in which context, he said what he said on the radio show in question. Actually, she does not care about the entire conversation. However, once again, she is worried as well as shocked by both the absurdity and violence of the response of the radio station employing him. Why did it suspend him indefinitely over a personal opinion or maybe a sarcastic comment or whatever it was.
Why should we add the emotionally-charged term “conspiracy” to any opinion that is different, awkward, maybe apparently crazy, alternative, or whatever else?
Where are common sense and a sense of perspective? Most importantly, where is freedom of expression? Why have we become slaves to cancel culture to this extent in our societies?
How sad to see this story occurring in Québec, which has traditionally been much more open to critical debates than the rest of Canada about topics, surely less trivial, than this one (i.e., 10-year-old debates on reasonable accommodations, referendum on sovereignty, etc.). Of course, that was before the changes of the past few years, which Bambi often calls on this blog “our collectively insane times“. Do you have another term to describe this phenomenon?
