...born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad

BB late to the party: The National Post’s Jonathan Kay wonders why the B’nai Brith has belatedly decided to criticize the HRCs—an apparatus it has championed from the beginning:

…The fact that the group is wading into the issue only at this late stage suggests that its real goal is saving a beleaguered censorship policy that has become sacrosanct to the human-rights industry and its acronymed Jewish allies. B'nai Brith, in particular, has had a key role in propping up this industry: Its overwrought surveys on anti-Semitism are Exhibit A in the spurious effort to portray Canada as a seething hive of Jew hatred — a portrayal that, in turn, is cited as evidence that we need heavy-handed human-rights laws.

When it comes to ideological censorship, B'nai Brith has been part of the problem for years. It strikes me as unconvincing when it suddenly declares itself to be a champion of free speech.

You mean Canada isn’t a seething hive of Jew (and other kinds of) haters? In that case, could someone please tell our ginormous anti-hate industry that its services are no longer required?

Posted by: scaramouche at 11:08 | link | comments

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