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My co-author comments on latest stupidity from Canada’s censor in chief

June 18, 2009 By admin

Pete Vere blogs:

A couple points:

1 – Steyn was using a rhetorical technique called reductio ad absurdum to demonstrate the absurdity of Eliadis’s argument. He wasn’t calling Eliadis a drunken pedophile; he was pushing Eliadis’s own argument to the extreme.

2 – Eliadis and Lynch appear to have missed the point.

Does this surprise me? No. After all, this is not the first time that context and references to popular culture have completely escaped Eliadis and Canada’s human rights racket.

As Kathy Shaidle and I wrote in Tyranny of Nice…

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