A small follow-up to my January 2018 entry on Margaret Atwood:
Steven Galloway, the author and (ex-) professor whom Atwood defended in the
Globe and Mail, has sued the woman who accused him of sexual assault and about
two dozen other people (at least some of them students or people of limited
means) who supported the accuser’s claims in writing. Galloway was partially
exonerated* by a 2016 legal investigation, and paid 200,000 dollars by his
former employer. His current suit alleges that his accuser and critics are
inflicting expensive and legally actionable damage on his reputation. Galloway’s
critics argue that he is using the court filing to silence people without the
financial means to contest the suit.
Perhaps. If so, Galloway has reckoned without the power of
Internet-based crowdfunding. A Gofundme campaign has raised (as of this
writing) over $US 67,000 to pay the defendants’ legal fees. Some of my readers
may believe Mr. Galloway has been hard done by; for the rest, I offer a link to the campaign website.
* The investigator, Hon. Mary Ellen Boyd, determined that
Galloway was guilty of harassment and an inappropriate relationship with a
student. Others have accused him of bullying behavior and slapping a student.
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