You’d think by now everyone had heard of Godwin’s Law, and should know that playing the Nazi Card is the surest sign of polemical desperation. It’s a wet, stinky boxer’s towel that says “Hitler” instead of “Everlast”: you throw it in, you’ve thrown the match.
But no: Liberal bloggers have spent the previous week calling a self-described “brown guy” and fellow Liberal a “Nazi sympathizer” for proposing a change to a single sentence of the Canadian Human Rights Act. (And, might I add, bypassing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make some pretty good “Doc Marten” jokes…)
Of course, a real Nazi would favour the thought-/pre-crime implications of Section 13.1, but who needs facts and common sense when you’ve got inflammed rhetoric and phantom bad guys way past their Best Before date?
We saw something similar after 9/11, when the villains of a Tom Clancy inspired film were changed from Muslim terrorists to Nazis, presumably to make everybody “feel better.”
In reality, the word “Nazi” still captures the achtung of simpletons, and the Liberal defenders of our warped “Human Rights” Commissions know it.
Fortunately, Mark Steyn manages to suck all the oxygen (or is it Zyklon-B?) out of the room in a couple of must-read posts:
Read More...Spinmeister Kinsella, who doesn’t seem to comprehend the principle, thinks Ezra and I should be ashamed to have white “supremacists” on our side. Dr Martin shrugs it off — “I’m a brown guy,” he says. Which has the right sense of proportion. And, instead of being ashamed by the support of white “supremacists” for free speech rights, Kinsella and co should be ashamed that a sicko like Richard Warman is getting rewarded by the Government of Canada’s “Human Rights” racket for a creepy life of pie-inciting stunts and posting vile website messages at least as hateful as anything by the basement losers he’s taking to court.
