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As for a university professor bringing in Hitler in order to censure a grad student over a lesson she gave to a first-year class on language surrounding gender-neutral pronouns, who the hell does “ze” think “ze” is, other than a sanctimonious tool?

So, shame on Wilfrid Laurier University prof. Nathan Rambukkana for playing the Hitler card in order to turn what should have been no tempest whatsoever into a shitstorm.

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Hitler? Really?

Rambukkana is an example of what’s wrong in a once esteemed profession where, instead of promoting varying views, now increasingly wants a politically-correct one-sidedness determined only by the prof squad.

What he has done, in fact, is odiously hammer home yet another nail in the coffin of critical thinking at Canadian universities.

Rambukkana, in fact, is the one who should be censured, not grad student and teaching assistant Lindsay Shepherd.

Her sin? Well, as reported in the Waterloo Region Record, when her entry-level Communications Studies class turned to gender and language, Shepherd showed them a three-minute video clip from TV Ontario’s public affairs show, The Agenda, during which two University of Toronto professors debated the issue of gender-neutral pronouns from opposite sides.