[Biblist] The politics of culture wars in contemporary Canada

är namnet på en rapport utgiven av Eric Kaufmann vid The Macdonald-Laurier Institute februari 2023. Den visar på att inställningen i Canada till kulturkriget liknar den i USA och UK. Det vore intressant med en liknandeundersökning om kulturkriget i Sverige. Vi ser att våra bibliotek tar klart ställning för en vänsterposition som troligen inte alls speglar majoritetens inställning. Förtroendet för våra bibliotek är samtidigt mycket stort men håller den på att undergrävas av oss själva? https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/politics-of-culture-wars-canada/ Highlights • Canadian opinion on cancel culture, critical race/history, and transgender issues is almost identical to that in Britain and the United States; • Canadians are less likely to call their country racist than are Americans or Britons; • Canadians oppose the idea of separating students in schools by race into privileged and oppressed by 92 to 8; • Respondents oppose teaching children that “There is no such thing as biological sex, only gender preference” by 85 to 15; • By an 80 to 20 margin, people oppose attempts to cancel gender-critical feminists J.K. Rowling and Kathleen Stock; • Canadians oppose gender reassignment surgery for under-16s by 4 to 1; • By a 78 to 22 margin, Canadians agree that “political correctness has gone too far”; • By a 70 to 30 margin, Canadians oppose the idea that Canada is a racist country and a similar share do not want this taught at school; • By 70 to 30, people prefer a colour blind rather than colour-conscious approach to issues in society; • Canadians oppose removing statues of Prime Minister John A. Macdonald by a 2 to 1 ratio; • By a 2 to 1 margin, people said we talk too much about race in Canada; • Respondents, by a 2 to 1 ratio, want parents informed when children under age 16 change pronouns at school; • Respondents, by a 2 to 1 ratio, do not want transgender women to enter women’s sports competitions; • More Canadians disapprove than approve of people displaying their preferred pronouns; • Younger Canadians are considerably more “woke” than older Canadians (i.e., they treat as sacred marginalized race and sexual identity groups, as well as women), though the generation gap is not as large as in Britain or the US; • Younger Canadians are substantially less likely than younger Britons or Americans to describe their country as racist; • Those who have taken diversity training are significantly more fearful of losing their job or reputation for what they say than those who have not; • Those who have taken diversity training are significantly more woke than those who have not; • Heavier social media users are significantly more woke, even controlling for ideology, age, and numerous other factors; • 60 percent of Canadians believe that “215 indigenous residential school children were buried in a mass grave on school grounds in Kamloops, BC,” with just 15 percent disagreeing; • 39 percent of Canadians and 55 percent of Americans believe that “Native peoples lived in peace and harmony prior to European settlement” of their countries; • Francophone attitudes are generally very similar to Anglophone attitudes on culture war questions; • Francophones are less likely than Anglophones to defend Anglo-Canadian historical figures such as Macdonald or Egerton Ryerson and are less concerned about threats to free speech or about political correctness; • Francophones are more skeptical than Anglophones of gender ideology and colour-conscious equity and diversity policies; • Canadians are 3 times more trusting of journalists than are Britons and over 50 percent more trusting of them than are Americans; • These results suggest that conservative parties can gain electoral support by defending historical figures and symbols and resisting trans activist policies. Parties on the left are advised to deflect or defuse such issues as they may prove electorally costly; and • Results indicate that diversity training, as currently practiced, needs to be reformed or abolished in organizations as it heightens employee anxiety and advances contentious beliefs. -- Jan Szczepański F.d Förste bibliotekarie och chef för f.d Avdelningen för humaniora, vid f.d. Centralbiblioteket, Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek E-post: Jan.Szczepanski63(a)gmail.com