The Unravelling of Political Correctness
January 12th, 2008 at 9:54 pm by CrankyWow, this is powerful stuff. Ezra Levant of the Canadian magazine The Western Standard, makes his opening statements to the Alberta Human Rights Commission.
He was called before the Human Rights commission to explain his publishing of the Mohammad cartoons.
Watching this, one gets the feeling that this could be the beginning of the end of Political Correctness run amok. Well, at least it makes me hopeful.
It reminds me of the moment in the movie “The Front” when Woody Allen’s character tells one of the McCarthy commissions that they can go shove it.
My ire isn’t so much with the Radical Islamists. It is really with the liberal who for whatever noble purpose, hacks at the roots of Western civilization.
Like the arc of “McCarthyism”, there seems, hopefully, a coming point where the overreach of the thoughtcrime prosecutors will go too far and find their authority curtailed.
Should that happen, the students and malcontents will scream racism and even McCarthyism. But I hope the grown-up people who usually remain quiet won’t knuckle under this time.
January 12th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Sweet. I can’t imagine more lower forms of life than your standard “Human Rights Commission”. Even worse, the Alberta human rights commission. That’s just an organization that someone forgot to abort.
January 13th, 2008 at 3:33 am
I was going to post this/these video(s), but EVERYONE ELSE in the blogosphere already has.
Good. Canada exposed. Hey Canada, your beer sucks, your women suck (‘cept Girl on the Right), your two-tugboat Navy sucks, your “football” sucks and so does your “bacon”.
Ad hominem attacks aside, your Government REALLY sucks. As much as we might complain about our political morons down here, your “human rights” thought-police really takes the cake.
Alberta Human Rights Commission…what a freakin’ joke. Put that liberal cow conducting the interrogation in a birka…
January 13th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Funny you should say that Nigel, I thought I has a scoop until after i hit the save button. Then my RSS feed pops up Ace, who refers to LGF who…
Oh well. Still important stuff here.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Wow! The last free man in Canada? Hopefully not.
What rights do they have to call him before this panel? Criminal proceedings if he doesn’t attend? Civil proceedings?
My husband was just given guidance about how to teach students in niqab (full face veil). He said he didn’t need the guidance because he was unwilling to teach a student in niqab. It actually hasn’t come up yet, but I guess he’ll be called before a panel something like this if it does.
Must get his green card application sorted.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Same thing that Nigel/Cranky said. I posted that as well last night after seeing it here, then I see that Ace, Insty, LGF, Mark Steyn, etc….
It hit a nerve. As it should.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Apparently Vol Abroad doesn’t keep up with the rest of her IngSoc speaking comrades using UK courts to shop libel tourism.
It’s always the soft fascism that gets you these days.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Mmmm – should probably watch what I say then. If that were the limit of Saudi interference in British life, then we could all celebrate. I was NOT aware of this particular issue – but no real surprise.
Heck, even Liberace used the UK libel courts when someone called him “fruity”. Seriously, couldn’t have anyone impugn his red-blooded heterosexuality.