Step right up, folks, and prepare to be amazed by our magnificent Museum for Human Rights! Let us know in advance whose human rights may give offence, and we will do our best to shield those exhibits from your gaze...
Poor Izzy Asper must be spinning in his grave. His vision for a museum honouring human rights is engulfed in a shitstorm of accusations including racism, homophobia, and sexual harassment.
The idea that staff at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights were pressured into shielding some visitors from exhibits they might find disagreeable, runs counter to any concept of human rights most Canadians are familiar with. It's the very opposite of the educational mission one might expect such an institution to engage in.
If potential donors are shielded from certain exhibits they might find offensive, the Museum is indulging the very bigotry it was ostensibly intended to fight against. I don't think that's what the Aspers had in mind.
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