There is now a Free Mark Steyn blog on the internet. I have previously posted on this topic but it is nice to see the support he is getting. I don’t know how productive it would be to see a flood of messages from America since Canadians seem to be sensitive about us southerners criticizing them. Still, it is worth a look.
Steyn isn’t the only one in trouble. Now it’s soccer teams and their uniforms. Maybe that Turk forgot that they won and that is why Istanbul isn’t Constantinople anymore. Those poor sensitive Muslims. Offend them and they chop your head off. Although it might be tougher in CCW states.
Kind of ironic, Dr. K., that Canadians don’t like Americans criticizing them…given the freedom they like to have to criticize Americans. More Daddy hatred, I suspect.
Nice of you to support Mark Steyn.
Am I the only one with a deep sense of unease that our neighbors to the north are making public their ‘views of human rights’ via their Human Rights Commission, knowing full well we are not on the same page with them…its certainly not a subtle line being drawn in the tundra as it were…
Hi Dana:
I sort of see Canada is a “experimental station” of leftist progressive thought. Some things work, some do not. Right now, the “some human rights are more righteous than others” meme is working through the system. That being said, I would like to hear more about what you think is coming down the pike, other than the selective muzzling of some folks and not others.
Still, I doubt that the folks in Yukon, Northwest Territories, or Nunavut will be quite as concerned with “directional multiculturalism” as the folks in Ottawa or Toronto.
EB, my thought is that this is a very brazen declarative move on the HRC’s part – surprising because Steyn is so well known and respected. The moves toward socialism (being quite broad here) generally begin with a crackdown on free speech in some form or another and this certainly appears to be just that.
Yes, Dana. I think that most countries have this strange Orwellian view that one type of speech deserves special protection, and other forms must be suppressed. The folks at FIRE (thefire.org) taught me that the solution to “bad” speech is MORE speech, not speech restrictions.
I loved the snotty Canadian comments about how afraid Americans are of speech restrictions. Paging Cassandra: that commenter may decide in the near future that he or she was a bit too precious with that comment.
Oh, and Merry Christmas (speaking of no-PC speech!)