5 Feet of Fury

“I can’t believe I’m going to subscribe to Maclean’s…”

How was it that, years ago, I as a naive, dumb teenager (admittedly, one raised on Orwell and C.S. Lewis) could see immediately what Human Rights Commissions were, but the genius lawyers who designed them are surprised to see their tool used for intimidation and censorship by religious and secular partisans unfamiliar with the insulting give and take of a free society?

“Could none of our nuanced, deep-thinking pundits really find their powers of concentration for the five seconds it takes to see why it’s a bad idea to establish boards that throw out rules of evidence and give prizes to whoever can cry the hardest about being an oppressed victim with hurt feelings?”