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[UPDATE II: More from Right Girl - and Dr Roy, who says, "I hope they repeat this event in Toronto." Good idea. Noting the absence of the city's monodaily, Dr Roy adds, "Guess The London Free Press is not interested in freedom." Don't look to the Free Press to save a free press. More from Winston, Wonder Woman plus here, here and here]
[UPDATE I: Behold The Power Of The Jackal! - with some additional thoughts on how that right-wing squish Andrew Potter is cowering in fear of Levant]
I gather it was SRO for the Ezra Levant-Salim Mansur-Kathy Shaidle freespeechapalooza tonight. Le tout London was there, plus visitors from Toronto, Montreal, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and various other far-flung parts. Alas, the girlyboys from The London Free Press* were apparently too nervous to attend. Despite having been whacking away at the "human rights" commissars for almost a year and a half, Kathy produced some novel lines of attack worth exploring further, including this:
The HRCs are engaged in class warfare. The majority of “hate speech” cases are brought by highly educated, highly privileged white liberals -- against less educated, working class, blue collar “reactionary” whites, who insist on speaking to each other about topics like immigration, using old fashioned, politically incorrect language.
Therefore, the enforcement of Section 13 is an expensive exercise in state sponsored snobbery, in which people’s own hard earned tax dollars are used by their “betters” to scold and shame them. Worse, the process silences people who already feel linguistically, politically and educationally disenfranchised, angry and powerless. We often compare the tribunals to 1984, but to me they’re more like Pygmalion.
As British writer Brendan O’Neill wrote:
"Today’s Top-down ‘anti-racism’ has nothing whatsoever to do with ensuring equality of opportunity for all); rather it is about policing people’s behaviour and etiquette, especially amongst the lower classes. Accusations of ‘racism’ are no longer about indicting someone for their views on ethnic minorities but rather have become a snobbish judgment on their lack of breeding. ‘Racist’ has largely become code for ‘underclass’: uneducated, uncouth, thick, fat, ‘not one of us’.
"Thus, the impact of official ‘anti-racism’ is not to make society more free and equal, but more authoritarian and censorious."
More reports to come from Ezra Levant and others.
*UPDATE: Free Press columnist and freespeecher Rory Leishman was in attendance, and told Ezra it was the largest political gathering ever held in London, Ont outside an election campaign.
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