Author Faces Canadian Tribunal For Hate Speech 818
An anonymous reader writes "A Seattle Times editorial notes that the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal will put author Mark Steyn on trial for his book 'America Alone,' which has angered Muslims in Canada. Steyn is a columnist for the Canadian magazine Maclean's. According to the editorial, British Columbia bans all words and images 'likely to expose a person... to hatred or contempt because of race, religion, age, disability, sex, marital status or sexual orientation.' Steyn is unapologetic, and is advertising his book as a 'Canadian Hate Crime' and daring the tribunal to 'pronounce him bad.'" The Canadian tabloid the National Post has coverage of what it calls "a media storm."
Hate Speech? (Score:1, Funny)
This law goes overboard, but yet... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:National Post is not a tabloid... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:why (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hate Speech? (Score:4, Funny)
What happens to the victims? Torches and pitchforks?
Re:He SHOULD Be On Trial (Score:0, Funny)
As judged by ability to take a joke (Score:1, Funny)
Invisible Pink Unicorn / Flying Spaghetti Monster
Jewish God
Buddah
Christian God
Mormon God
Aliens invented by L Ron Hubbard
Lost Aboriginal Cannibal Tribes
Muslim God
Now it's not the most scientific approach to determining which God is bigger. Indeed, that list should be normalized by population too. Sorry Muslims. Your God is truly pathetic. There's obviously only one way to deal with this kind of frank criticism. Machetes and fire.
kthxbai.
Re:And so it begins... (Score:1, Funny)
Are people in China inherently more susceptible to authoritarian regimes, or somehow less capable of existing in a democracy than other peoples?
Actually, I think asians just might be more susceptible. You see it in the shock reactions asians have when they first visit a place where people are
Re:Tolerance is a two way street (Score:0, Funny)
Islam is pure evil, and this has been proved millions of times, all over the world, throughout history.
Just read the Koran. Just look at the life of the 'prophet' - a mass murderer, multiple rapist, bigamist and sex maniac with 14 'wives', and a paedophile, who 'married' a nine year old girl when he was fifty four. And muslims call him the 'perfect man'. Need I say more?
Blasphemer! (Score:3, Funny)
Pastafarians are evil?
Dude, you're about to get your soul sucked out by somebody's noodly appendage.
Re:Hate Speech? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hate Speech? (Score:5, Funny)
There. Fixed that for you.
Seriously. After 10,000 years or so of recorded history and civilizations and all, you'd think everybody would've gotten the memo by now. Good or bad, ideas are a bitch to kill. Shoot/torture/maim/imprison the messenger, they become a martyr. Ban saying the words out loud, they get whispered even further.
We're upitty little animals, and scolding and yelling at us about what not to do is about as effective as telling junior not to put peas up his nose. We'll do it just to spite you.
If you're serious about banning hate speech--that is, any works that advocate or could incite the killing of other people--then throw the Bible, the Torah, the Koran, Nietzsche, Machiavelli, and probably a good half or more of the rest of the sum total of religious and literary texts throughout human history onto that fire.
The only way to kill a bad idea is to give it attention and discuss why it's wrong.
Tabloid? Ahh! ... THAT Canadian Tabloid! (Score:2, Funny)
The Canadian "TABLOID"?? LOL!
O, how the mighty have fallen!
Poor Conrad will be turning over in his cell, whilst chuckling, if he ever gets a chance to read the above description!
I'm sure Steyn will be, if he sees this!