I know of some progressives--their names are unimportant--who claim to be seeking the exact, exquisite line separating free speech from hate speech. Such individuals are no doubt cheering the news that Section 13, the part of our federal "human rights" legislation that claws back the freedom of speech enshrined in our phony baloney Charter of Rights and Freedoms, could make a comeback. Brian Lilley is a vocal proponent of free speech, and no fan of Section 13. But he's willing to draw a line, too. When someone--say, a Zion-loather speaking at the Ayatollah Khomeini's annual Queen's Park seethe-a-thon--says that there's no reasoning with Israeli Jews and that, if they don't agree to leave Jerusalem and, indeed, all of "Palestine," post haste, they should be killed en masse, that crosses the line, and that individual should be charged with a crime. The way it now works, though, both in terms of our "human rights" apparatus and our criminal "hate speech" laws, is that certain people (eg. Elias "The Eliminationist" Hazineh, a Palestinian with connections galore to Ontario Liberals) can call for violence and genocide—heck, can spew with impunity—while others simply cannot.
Oddly enough, that's how it works in places like Iran and Saudi Arabia, too.
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