When is the pot and kettle black? Which is blacker than the other?
There are laws in various countries which mean well, except they were passed by politicians of little brain. It’s easy to make a law first, and then wonder about the full ramifications of that law. Perhaps it’s best to tell your population that certain things are a bad idea, please don’t do them, they hurt other people’s feelings, and be good boys and girls.
Instead, the easy answer is to make it a law and say, fuck it, and let the newly guilty deal with the consequences.
Canada has Hate Laws. There have been issues about hate speech versus freedom of speech. Hate Propaganda is another problem, as is advocating genocide. Although what “hate” constitutes has been a tickling niggling sticky wicket.
Is it okay to say you hate terrorists? Is that a condoned hatred in Canada? If Justin Trudeau says he hates terrorists, will he have to have himself arrested?
Speaking of whom … here’s another ticklish wicket for Mr. Trudeau.
Is painting brown or black shoe polish on your face (multiple times, not just once, this guy can’t stop himself) an act of hatred? Is that “hate expression”? If so, who will arrest him, and when? I’d love to be a fly on the wall to hear how he defends himself against just laws in a just nation with an unjust PM.
And also with Canada, can an indigenous person say he or she hates the Pope and all Catholics for what Dominican and Jesuit priests and nuns did to native children … is that “allowed” hatred?
If I painted my face black and walked up to Trudeau and shook his hand and said, “I’m a big fan”, is that permissible commentary on a politician’s hypocrisy? Thus, a form of expression, speech, rebellion, civil disobedience? (Does one need a permit to rebel in Canada? My God – political correctness run amok!)
The moral of this story is: whatever law you make today, the law-maker him- or herself will one day be guilty of.
Trudeau can’t clean his face enough, and not a single Mountie has yet climbed up on his or her high horse to arrest the black-faced white man. They also have yet to encircle every residential school property with yellow crime scene tape, get out the ground-penetrating radar, and treat each piece of residential school real estate as a crime scene.
Well done, Mounties (and your Trudeau-protecting boss), you are little more than a statue one can buy at a Niagara Falls gift shop. What an ugly symbol you and Trudeau are to your country.
