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Not My Brother’s Keeper: The Viral Defamation of a Professor and the Triumph of Selfish Apathy

Not My Brother’s Keeper: The Viral Defamation of a Professor and the Triumph of Selfish Apathy

When institutions don’t just permit the mob—they are the mob: injustice by HR decree, reputations shattered by digital stone-throwing

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In the annals of human cowardice, few spectacles rival the methodical destruction of a man by lies, not because the lies were clever, but because no one cared enough to stop them. This is not merely a tale of injustice; it is a dissection of a society so steeped in selfishness that it has abandoned the very concept of moral responsibility.

At the University of Guelph-Humber in Toronto, Ontario, a professor dared to utter two sentences: “I st…

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