Victory? Or a small defeat...
The irony of a bill that protects a minority from the view of a minority is lost on Canada's parliament. But the problem with including gays in Canada's hate speech legislation is not that gays shouldn't be included, but that Canada has such legislation in the first place.
I've always believed that if you're right, you're right. You don't become right by simply silencing those who you disagree with.
Open the door to censorship by banning "hate speech" and it's wide open for the neocons who'd like to ban those who oppose wars on the beggars.
And I have to say, Svend Robinson is right and wrong, as people so often are. Doubtless, the conservatives who opposed his bill are largely homophobes. But that's not a charge he could level at me. Or is it? Is it another trump card, another word we use to deny others any share of meaning?
posted by Dr Zen @ 10:04 pm
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