Share this Story: Jonathan Kay: Imported U.S. culture war about as Canadian as the Dallas CowboysJonathan Kay: Imported U.S. culture war about as Canadian as the Dallas Cowboys One of the benefits of bilingualism is that Québécois culture supplies a needed reality check on American-inspired manias Photo by BRENDAN MCDERMID / REUTERSArticle content You’ve probably never heard of The Sketchersons, a Toronto-based comedy sketch troupe that’s been around since 2004. Try refreshing your browser, or Jonathan Kay: Imported U.S. culture war about as Canadian as the Dallas Cowboys Back to video As I’ve described in recent columns for Quillette and the National Post, similar internal melodramas have played out at Canadian theatre troupes, museums, art galleries, academic departments and literary magazines over the last year. And surely one of the cruelest things you could do to a black Canadian is put him in a sketch-writing workshop with a bunch of guilt-addled white wokesters pleading for moral absolution. Jonathan Kay is editor of Quillette, and a former managing editor of the National Post. • Twitter: JonKay More On This Topic Jonathan Kay: If there really are 300 neo-Nazi groups in Canada, why can't anyone name them?

Source: National Post February 23, 2021 11:03 UTC