Philosophy

Hamid Zafar and “cancelling”

Last Thursday, major Swedish newspaper “Dagens Nyheter” revealed that Mr Hamid Zafar – a celebrated principal, and expert advisor to Sweden’s second-largest political party – had written anti-Semitic (and some anti-immigrant/homophobic) comments under pseudonyms on Twitter and other forums between 2011-2015. Soon thereafter, he lost his job and all other positions he’d gotten thanks to …