Rex Murphy wearily explains:
They say he is too aggressive, too noisy and assertive, that he courts controversy and publicity. They should read Shakedown, and they will quickly realize that anyone less “aggressive” or “noisy” would have long ago been suffocated by the remorseless, inequitable, taxpayer-funded, bureaucratic grinding of Canada’s human rights tribunals and commissions.
On the matter of his alleged taste for controversy and publicity, again, after reading Shakedown, they will realize that without his ability to withstand controversy and generate publicity, an insidious and largely unaccountable process of diminishing the central concepts of our democracy — freedom of speech, press and thought — would largely have gone unnoticed, and what is far worse, unchallenged…
“Deputy Hatemonger” Mark Steyn adds:
I wonder if there is not merely a right but an obligation to “offend the easily offended”, especially when Trudeaupian social engineers erect a pseudo-legal system designed to encourage “the easily offended” to be easily offended as a full-time occupation – see Internet Nazi Richard Warman, Darren (“I’m not gay, I just play getting offended on their behalf”) Lund, etc. The HRC system is a malign alliance between thought enforcers and the professionally offended.
Indeed. I got the from-the-heart “maybe you should tone it down a little and not give your enemies so much ammunition” speech last week from a big shot pal I respect enormously, and who happens to be no slouch in the let’s-say-rude-stuff-just-to-wind-up-the-punters department. I DO see his point, and this sort of thing does get exhausting, but…
It’s also working. And it has to be done. If somebody has to do it, it might as well be me, and people like me.
I wonder if Ezra Levant ever suspected he’d one day find himself in a situation where he’s playing Good Cop to someone else’s Bad…
