"Kike. Nigger. Faggot. Paki. Chink"

Warren Kinsella laments the fact that now that Section 13, the state censorship portion of Canada's "human rights" statute, has been struck down, "haters" on the Internet will be able to deploy those awful words with impunity (as, hilariously, he himself has just done).

Maybe so, but people who use such ugly epithets reveal something sordid and ugly about themselves, thereby opening themselves up to societal opprobrium. Which, all in all, is much better arrangement than handing officious and none-too-bright "human rights" hacks the power to sign off on what free-born citizens of a democracy can and cannot say.



Update: LRC weighs in on the hate speech. (BTW, Kinsella failed to mention some choice epithets, including Wop, Spic and Sheeny, thereby letting himself in for the accusation that his racism lacks "diversity.")

Update: Here's Kathy's post.

Update: Damn, I forgot to include Polack.

Update: Also, Newfie.