Wednesday, November 24, 2010

'Free Speech' in Canada

George Jonas explains how it works:
If a mob disrupted a pro-choice speaker at a Canadian university, chances are the protesters would be removed. If a mob disrupted a pro-life speaker at a Canadian university, chances are the speech would be cancelled.

One kind of speech is free in Canada; another kind isn't. Speech broadly characterized as "left-wing" a.k.a. "progressive"--e. g., pro-choice, anti-Israeli, anti-capitalist -- is protected even at its extreme. Speech broadly characterized as "right-wing" a.k.a. "reactionary" -- pro-life, pro-Western, pro-Israel--isn't protected, even when it's moderate...
History has shown that when "virtue" reigns, freedom rots. You would think that, of all places, universities (bastions of learning; repositories of world wisdom) would have some familiarity with that truth.

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