Free Speech Vs Hate Speech: What the Media is Failing to Tell Us

As one may have already heard, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that Mr William ‘Bill’ Whatcott was indeed preaching hatred when handing out anti-gay pamphlets a decade or so ago.

(Read about it here in The National Post.)

Regardless of how one feels about the whole issue of free speech versus (alleged) hate speech, there’s a whole other underlying story here that people seem to be forgetting or outright ignoring. In fact, it may be the only story here that affects us Canadians at large—albeit indirectly.

The media is failing to remind us exactly who Mr Whatcott’s friends are, and who has represented him politically at the federal level. The truth is, Mr Whatcott is cut from the same cloth as those who had the biggest hand in putting the Harper Conservatives in power. For over two decades, the Bill Whatcotts of the western provinces have been represented in Parliament by the Reform, Canadian Alliance and Conservative MPs. These parties have been the voice of Christian fundamentalism in Ottawa—and the Conservatives continue to be. Take a good look and have a good listen: it is people like Mr Whatcott whom Stephen Harper and his cronies primarily represent. One can smell bigots like Bill Whatcott on the majority of discriminatory sex-related legislation that the Harper government has forced through parliament over the past seven years.

Mr Whatcott will no doubt continue to preach his antiquated theocratic dogma and related rubbish until someone equally zealous and imposing from the Far Left puts a bullet between his eyes. In the meantime, please keep in mind his ideological bedfellows and political lineage in Ottawa.

Cathy Bennett and the Big Business of Perpetuating Poor Taste.

I couldn’t help but take a minute or two and comment on businesswoman Cathy Bennett’s call for full-day kindergarten classes in Newfoundland and Labrador.

How ironic: it isn’t bad enough that this woman peddles cardboard cuisine to the uncultured masses in the form of the McDonald’s restaurants she owns and operates in the St John’s area; now she wants the local kindergarten students to undergo an additional three hours of third-rate education and left-wing indoctrination per day. Of course, this is all for the public good, claims Ms Bennett. In other words, she wants more semi-illiterate mothers freed up to work the afternoon shift at her businesses. Meanwhile, the poor children in question will be receiving an excuse for an education that will render them prime candidates for employment at McDonald’s upon graduation. ‘Learning to labour’ indeed.

Ms Bennett is the worst kind of capitalist: someone who earns an above-average income perpetuating culinary dead-ends on the backs of socialist appetites and expectations—all the while extolling the ‘virtues’ of an education system that will guarantee her future drones and clientele for the taking. I’m so grateful my parents did their utmost to keep me out of such restaurants and academic institutions.

Ultimately, I guess, such a ridiculous move on the part of an acquiescing government would mean the opportunity for neglectful parents to spend even less time with their offspring. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.

Welcome / Professor Judith Adler's Disclosure of Student Shortcomings and The Muse's Dubious Reaction

Hello, and welcome to my new blog, Y’s Perspective.   I’m a young female student attending the campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland, and I have an abundance of profound thoughts on many diverse subjects.  I do have a given name, but for the purpose of referencing my online presence, one may call me simply ‘Y’.

I’d imagine my thoughts on Professor Judith Adler’s exposing of Memorial student inadequacies in geography and The Muse’s reaction to said revelation is as good a way as any to get this new blog off the ground:

Bravo for Professor Adler!  I personally congratulate her for having the gumption to point out at least one of the multiple shortcomings of my horrendous embarrassment of a generation.  Anyone who is taking issue with Professor Adler’s findings, or is dismissing such revealed inadequacies as inconsequential and irrelevant, is simply part of the problem.

Such an ignorance of basic geography merely demonstrates and underlines the dire consequences of children growing up under inadequate parenting and third-rate public schooling—not to mention their simultaneous indoctrination with left-wing dogmas and Christian fundamentalism courtesy of the state and the media.  Put simply, the appalling social climate of the past fifteen to twenty years has proven a recipe for disaster.  All I need to do is look around the campus and see the young ‘men’ in their early to mid twenties still looking and dressing like nine-year-old little-leaguers, and I know that there is a serious problem.  With their biker-slut attire and prepubescent manners, sharing a classroom with the young ‘women’ is not unlike being in the company of child-porn ‘stars’. As a young woman of some self-respect and taste, I find my self increasingly preferring the company of genuine men and women in their later thirties and forties.

The truly sad thing is, it seems there is no obvious way back from this dilemma.  It appears the problem is as self-perpetuating as the ignorance and infantile mannerisms it involves.  The functionally illiterate and uncultured among us have been left to their own devices.  The federal Conservative government is certainly not interested in the nation’s youth—unless, of course, it involves pruriently nosing into our sexual lives or attempting to place twelve-year-olds in prison.  Frankly, I see no immediate solution to the problem—short of sterilisation for those who are incapable of adequate home-schooling or cannot afford the luxury of a secular private institution.