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But the “It’s OK to be Against Whiteness” is not a debate over free speech, nor is it about racism as most understand the term — as discrimination or antagonism directed toward someone of a different race, or the belief one’s own race is better than another’s.

It’s not about fighting the naked hate of neo-Nazis or rooting out the hidden contempt of a cop who pulls over a black kid because he’s black.

“Whiteness is an academic term for the ideologies that describe the practices, beliefs, habits and attitudes that enable the unequal distribution of power and privilege based on skin colour,” the Trent student association wrote in a statement explaining the purpose of the event.

More plainly, it’s about a toxic and divisive ideology steeped in the intolerant loathing inherent in postmodernism and cultural Marxism that divides the world into us versus them groups, into victims and oppressors.

It is the definition of bigotry, not the antidote to it.

There is no “we” in “us and them.”

The young social justice warriors at Trent swallowed the lie that a democratic society should create equality of outcome for all people, not equality of opportunity.

It’s an ugly and corrupting belief that divides us based on sex and skin colour and class status.

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that,” Martin Luther King taught us. “Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

Amen.