A Grand Inquisition

Better Left Unsaid Examines the Left & Clears a Path for Better Things to Be Said

Toronto filmmaker Curt Jaimungal saw political polarization intensifying in both Canada and the U.S. and set out in 2018 to investigate. He knew that ideological extremes in the twentieth century had resulted in untold millions of deaths, and that some people were saying that the current specter of identity politics, with its speech suppression and demands for safe spaces, was putting us on a path to the same kind of mass murder that had happened in Stalin's Russia and Mao's China. Were they right? Or did the current political landscape merely reflect legitimate collective redress for the wrongs of Western civilization's past? Put differently, were the demands of the extreme left simply the price of progress?