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How Can Canadians Be So Stupid!!!!
WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU PEOPLE
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There is a healthy dose of irony and allusion in the thread title, around many western countries (including Australia) these human rights tribunals are being imbued with far more political purpose, it goes from settling complains about rent applications to fining publishers for offending religious groups. Protecting a religious identity such as Islam by giving critics the run-around is no different than the tactics used by scientologists. The merits of Steyn's arguments are not relevant to the principle of freedom of speech (he aptly highlights the short term events but his long term argument of Islamic demographic dominance is undercut by declining birthrates after a few generations in the west). Unfortunately absolute free speech isn't explicit and there seems to be stipulations about how far one can go, hence these show-trials seem to be perfectly legal. By fighting cases like this religious PR groups can effectively silence people by demonstrating that criticism of certain beliefs will cost time and money that just isn't worth spending. |
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No, actually these cases are not coming increasingly before Canadian provincial tribunals because of or for "political purposes." It is for the most part because the courts are refusing to hear them or are tending to routinely dismiss them or direct them to the tribunals in order to stamp out rampant Charter litigation (for a number of reasons, one of which being that Charter challenges can in certain circumstances receive public funding).
__________________Aside from that, Mark Steyn is an incredibly intellectually lazy, stupid man. The article he wrote last week where he blamed Hillary's loss on the decrease in white demographics in the West really tells you everything you need to know about him. Seldom have I read news articles so painfully stupid as his. At least Hitchens is intelligent even when he's profoundly wrong. |
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We had a case here that was eventually appealed where two Christian evangelists were dragged through a human rights tribunal for giving a seminar on how to talk to Muslims about coming to Christ, that secular humanist and atheist groups helped with a legal defense fund says a lot.
The individuals and groups that make complaints have agendas that I would call political, I did not mean to infer that any political parties are encouraging this or that there was some sort of hare-brained conspiracy. |
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Yes, but at the same time, at least here, if the courts are refusing to play the game, then whatever political aims they have are not really being achieved.
These are not big stories in the news. |
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