as my co-defendant likes to say, on the tedious subject of “words can hurt/are powerful”. (You see: the spells in the books don’t work. Get it?)
“Words can hurt/are powerful” is a favourite anti-free speech argument. And yeah, I guess if you’re a wimp, words can hurt. So man up. But we all know that “manning up” isn’t an option in our metrosexual p.c. society…
More importantly: if words were truly powerful, we wouldn’t be having this fight over the HRCs and Section 13.1 in the first place.
Because millions of Canadians read 1984 and Farenheit 451 in high school — including, I’d wager a thousand dollars — every single employee, past and current, of the Canadian Human Rights Commissions. And Bernie Farber. And the Lying Jackal and The Guy Who Is Suing Us.
And those words weren’t powerful enough to get a single, solitary one of those people to go, “Hey, this weird stuff I’m doing all seems kinda… familiar… maybe I should, like, quit my job…”
Or if such a thought has crossed their tiny minds, they quickly put it out of their tiny heads, because their juicy pensions and paycheques (all paid for by me) mean more to them than all those “powerful” words they read in high school.
Remember: our fight is only 50% ideology, if that.
It is really about The Lying Jackal and the Kapos at the CJC and B’nai Brith wanting to get their Orders of Canada one day, and getting all the mindless applause that goes along with supporting a previously unimpeachable if completely asinine cause like fighting the faux wood panelling SS, single-finger typing away on their ten year old Dells with the dot matrix printers.
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