Juno News - March 29, 2021


Diversity and Exclusion： Confronting the Campus Free Speech Crisis


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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

153.77698

Word count

342

Sentence count

17


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Diversity and Exclusion: Confronting the Campus Free Speech Crisis is a memoir written by Lindsay Shepard. It is a first-person account of the Wilfrid Laurier University controversy surrounding censorship and free speech on campus.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, everyone. True North Fellow Lindsay Shepard here, and I am excited to announce that I have
00:00:11.400 written a new book. It's titled Diversity and Exclusion, Confronting the Campus Free Speech
00:00:17.580 Crisis, and you can now order it on Amazon in paperback or ebook format. I will leave the link
00:00:24.640 in the description of this video so that you can check that out. My copy says not for resale,
00:00:29.220 but yours won't say that. Why should you read this book? If you are interested in issues pertaining
00:00:36.540 to free expression, political correctness, leftist bias in the academy, censorship, free speech on
00:00:43.160 campus, this is definitely a book that will pique your interest. And the best thing about it, in my
00:00:49.100 opinion, is that the discussion of these issues comes in the format of a memoir, so it is told in
00:00:54.840 the first person rather than just being a distant analysis or explanation of these issues. This is a
00:01:03.000 personal insider account. A lot of people followed the story of the Wilfrid Laurier University controversy
00:01:10.080 when it was in the news in 2017, and I think a lot of people have the impression that the story kind
00:01:16.740 of went like this. There was the original disciplinary meeting and the ensuing secret recording, then
00:01:22.980 the university went into damage control mode, and then the university apologized, and that was kind
00:01:28.660 of that. But if you read my book, you will learn that there was so much more to the story than just
00:01:33.980 this. There was so much more happening behind the scenes, and there was so much more that happened after.
00:01:39.120 So check out Diversity and Exclusion, Confronting the Campus Free Speech Crisis on Amazon. That is my
00:01:47.040 pitch to you. If you do read the book, I'd love for you to review it. I plan on reading every single review,
00:01:55.360 and I plan on talking a bit more about the book over the coming days and weeks. So until then,
00:02:01.200 I'm Lindsay Shepard with True North, and thanks so much for watching.