Pressure from one person cancels local movie showing - outrageous!!

How much longer will the cotton picking politically correct movement wreak havoc on our society? According to local media today, a woman who claims to be a former university professor (though she seems to be better known for initiating or supporting radical leftist "causes" and nobody seems to know what institution of higher learning employed her) e-mailed Rainbow Cinemas to complain about a planned showing of a movie on "rising Islamic radicalism".

Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West will not be showed at the St. Laurent Shopping Centre's Rainbow Cinemas due squarely to the one e-mailed complaint from the alleged former university professor. The Conservative Film Society booked Rainbow for the showing in November and aims to "show provocative, conservative films" that otherwise don't get to see the light of day in traditional movie complexes.

Is the complainant really a "former university professor"? I doubt it. That she would be so flippantly and callously advocate censorship without even seeing the movie she demanded be pulled from the theatre seems to go against everything I have learned universities are about. I am told (and have observed) that universities are in part education centres that teach students how to think or institutions that stimulate deep discussions about everything under the sun. Check out some of the research grants awarded to see how broad a spectrum under which these university graduate students or tenured professors get all the time!

No real professor would so quickly and independently attempt to quash something without even knowing one single thing about it. Had she actually seen the movie, she would have at least had one leg to stand on. She hasn't and therefore should not have anything to say.

All that aside, the fact that one single complaint caused the theatre to cancel a booking that has been planned for over two months is a clear indication that political correctness is going way too far. What's next, professor, advocating that certain books be pulled off shelves and burned? We seem to be at the point that leftist propaganda is readily accepted as indisputable fact (see Al Gore's movie as an example) while anything from the "other perspective" is poppycock or is censored before it even sees the light of day.

I thought that being part of a democratic society meant that all points of view were valid and merited at least an opportunity to exist. It seems that this is becoming more and more of a fading memory. When will this stop?