Well I see the Con hooker Ann Coulter has received a rapturous redneck reception in Calgary. And since it's the Hate Capital of Canada she chose her targets carefully: The closest she came to targeting any minorities was when she cracked three or four jokes about gay activists. At one point she criticized how gays compared their struggle to that of segregated blacks.
"You'd think there were ‘straights-only' water fountains," she said. "As if a gay male would ever drink non-bottled water."
"It's quite a country you have here," Coulter told Evan Solomon, host of Power & Politics, on CBC News Network on Thursday. "I'm more determined than ever to turn pretty much from Calgary through the west into the 51st state now. We got to save the good Canadians."
Answer: because Coulter and Calgary go together like shit and toilet paper. Alberta already is the 51st state. And if she really annexed that one-party redneck province I would be so grateful, I'd buy her a rubber dicky ducky. On the other hand this really bugs me. Because all Francois Houle ever did was warn Coulter that this was Canada not Amerika. The organizers cancelled the University of Ottawa rally. And do these professors really believe that a university should be a place for hate speech ? And while we're at it why aren't all these Free Speechers in our right wing media more exercised about what is happening to free speech thanks to our Con government? It's always great fun to see conservatives getting all worked up about freedom of speech, as they did over the dust-up between Ann Coulter and the University of Ottawa...but you have to wonder if the right-siders are missing something – as in perhaps drumming up as much noise on their own government's record on freedom of speech. It's a record worth a look. Instead of following Coulter around like groupies, and licking her like a pork chop. And when will they ever learn that when you direct public insults at already marginalized groups it's not freedom of speech. It just adds fuel to the flames of bigotry and diminishes and endangers lives.
Marginalizing minorities not heroic or debating anything. It's cowardly, ugly, and EVIL. Which is why we the marginalized will not put up with it. And why I'm with him.
While the middle-aged wring their hands about the anti-Coulter protests, there's a lesson to be learned from the youth. The students at the University of Ottawa who put their boots to the ground in protest clearly and forcefully expressed their view that Coulter's racism, her homophobia, or her penchant for glib sound bites about how torture should be a televised spectator sport had no place on an enlightened, multicultural Canadian college campus in 2010--at least not on theirs, if anywhere in a civilized society.
They said No thanks. Take it back where you came from. It's not welcome here. It isn't that the students, or the university, were "afraid" of her right to free speech. They just weren't that into her.
So when a hatemongering RepubliCon hooker from Amerika comes to Canada to attack us. Like they attack gays and Muslims and all kinds of other people in her degenerated country. And all these old white straight men in the media drool all over Annie and call her a victim. And gang up on the decent and very Canadian Francois Houle. I say the hooker can say what she wants ....or go play with her rubber dicky ducky. But as for those yankee- licking Free Speech Screamers... If the hooker turns them on that much. Why don't they give her a call?
But we are better than that. And more Canadian.
We think she's a skanky bigot. And we will RESIST...
Well I see the ridiculous RepubliCon hooker Ann Coulter is in Canada tonight. Flexing his her boyish buns and being provocative. “By the time I leave Canada I expect them to repeal socialized medicine and kick out Quebec,” Coulter wrote in an e-mail Sunday to The Free Press. Because that old hooker will say ANYTHING for money. And I also see that the equally ridiculous Con bore Mark Steyn says Coulter is asking for it. And he's outraged. I mean OUTRAGED.
As I say, be polite but withering. He has after all explicitly threatened a visitor to Canada from a friendly country in a manner more suited to banana republic police chiefs.
And, if he insists his threats are not mere masturbatory posturing, tell him to contact Chief Commissar Jennifer Lynch, QC direct, and advise her that I'll be covering the hearing.
Yawn. And I'm sure our own Speechy Weechy Warriors are OUTRAGED too. Because Coulter is such a good friend of Canada. "They better hope the United States doesn't roll over one night and crush them," she said on Hannity & Colmes in 2004. "They're lucky they're allowed to be on the same continent as the United States."
And I bet those Cons would LOVE to roll over, have the RepubliCon hooker put on some pointy heels, and walk all over them. As for yours truly... I think La Coulter should be allowed to make a fool out of himself herself. Because better a hooker than a martyr eh? Besides it's always useful for the Cons to show us how AmeriCon they are. And I'd give ANYTHING to see Kathy Shaidle show Coulter how much she admires him her. And then if we don't like what he she says, we can tell him her what we think. Or send the RepubliCon hooker a love letter. Like Henry Rollins did...
Because after that what can you say eh?
Except that I know Cons in university tend to be ugly, dumb, horny and frustrated. But this is OUTRAGEOUS !!!!!
I suppose it started with this story in the ever more right-wing Globe and Mail. Which turned out to be not true. But by that time the so-called Free Speech Screamers were in a screeching foaming FRENZY. As Dr Dawg notes it was practically raining spittle. But then what do you expect from a group that includes Kathy Shittle, Free Duminion, Lezra of Paypal, and the greatest collection of flying fascist monkeys, racists, and homophobes this country has ever seen? The Christianists and Palinists of Canada.
Not much. Then I noticed that the right wing rag had struck again...this time with an absurd editorial.
And that in the comments only one person..... out of more than thirty ....pointed out that the Queen's initiative just might be intended to TEACH students tolerance, and protect vulnerable MINORITIES from being insulted and degraded. First of all, the role of the 'student facilitators' is not to "stamp out the expression of incorrect thought" but to bring attention to the use of racist, homophobic and intolerant offensive remarks in public. This is a far cry from stamping out "expressions of incorrect thought." People are entitled to say what they want in private, but in public, they need to learn to respect other individuals right to not hear intolerant remarks. Someone has to teach these kids who utter offensive, intolerant comments that their behaviour is inappropriate. Obviously their parents, their high schools and their athletic activities failed to teach these kids to be more mature and more tolerant, so its up to the university to do it. And I wondered why more people just don't GET IT.
Even if they were planning to use hall monitors so WHAT? Teaching students tolerance and respect in a society as diverse as ours is probably one of the most important things you can teach them.
And Gay and Muslim kids have the right to go to school and not be forced to listen to offensive or intolerant remarks. It's one thing to encounter them on the internet. And I think Section 13 should be examined and maybe improved to try to avoid unnecessary claims. But it's another thing to encounter this in person. Not just because it's unpleasant and humiliating. But also because when that foul shite is normalized into our day to day discourse, and aimed at groups of people who are already marginalized and hated, it can hurt or KILL.
Their freedom to hate. Our right to live our lives free from the threat of being insulted, attacked or killed for who we are. Our freedom is life itself. Their freedom is FASCISM.
How hard is it to understand that? How hard is it to understand that a society that doesn't fight hatred and intolerance will turn into a jungle. Foul and savage enough to consume us ALL.
Some people .....including some who should know better...are trying to take this country to a VERY bad place.
