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It may seem odd to see a progressive go on record to yatta-yatta-yatta racism in this way. (JY has referred to Canadians with South Asian heritage as “turban f—–s” who “should not be allowed in Canada.”) But it is not so shocking as it once was: One of the unsettling aspects of progressive cultism is that its acolytes see their cause as so morally urgent that it justifies tactics that would horrify them if they were employed by the other side.

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This is most evident in the debate over trans rights, which now features regular scenes of angry woke men mansplaining gender to feminists. Online, trans-rights extremism has unleashed open season on feminists and lesbians, with some of the charming tag lines being “Let me know if ur a TERF (trans-exclusive radical feminist) so I can beat the s–t out of you,” “Burn them all,” and “S–k my girl-c–k.” At the anti-Meghan Murphy protest in Vancouver on Saturday, a woman carried a mock guillotine emblazoned with the words “Step Right Up TERFs!” When you’re so woke that you forget how to spell “MeToo,” and killing women becomes a punch line.

Some of Canada’s most impassioned and dogmatic anti-racists, when riled up, sometimes betray their own racism. At that same anti-Murphy protest, local activist Amanda Jabbour repeatedly accused an Asian woman attending the event with a non-Asian man of being a “mail-order bride,” even continuing her bizarre taunting after her bigotry was called out. Later on, when video of the event surfaced, her equally progressive employer, PACE Society, put out a statement larded up with social-justice jargon, without offering any apology to the Asian woman who’d been targeted. (PACE Society creepily promised everyone a “third party accountability pod,” whatever that is.)