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5 Feet of Fury

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U.S. professor fired for telling a joke

January 19, 2012 By Kathy Shaidle

Mark Steyn responds:

I first read The Joke as a schoolboy, when we thought such deranged scenarios were confined to the Warsaw Pact.

I re-read it on the flight to Vancouver, the day before the British Columbia “Human Rights” Tribunal devoted the best part of a day’s court proceedings to hearing testimony from “expert witnesses” on the “tone” of my jokes.

Fresh from that triumph, the BC HRT then convicted and fined Guy Earle, a stand-up comedian who committed the hitherto unknown crime of putting down a lesbian heckler homophobically. (…)

We are not yet a totalitarian society, but the touchiness of America’s wretched academy is certainly providing a fine pilot program.

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