Words
Four things, actually:
1. Number of editorials or columns published in the National Post* in recent weeks which attack the notion of protecting human rights (not including the one published yesterday that ridiculed Prime Minister Harper for lacking "principles" on the issue, because he is declining to summarily gut the Human Rights Act ): Twelve. Number defending human rights: Zero.
2. ...which, when you think about it, is rather odd. Perhaps Jon Kay can write a column attacking the idea of a human rights museum in Winnipeg, now. In fact, I dare him.
3. Are the Aspers - who may or may not be visiting this web site - aware that the aforementioned editor is taking submissions from a racist who mocks the Holocaust and calls for genocide in Africa? (Which the Post's comment editor permits her to call, scare quotes theirs, "that continent-wide parade of dysfunction known as 'Africa'.")
4. And, seeing as how we are getting candid and all that, here is yesterday's National Post contributor, Kathy Shaidle*, referring to children - even showing their photograph - as "parasites." Like the Nazis used to do with the Jews.
Damn, that felt good. Part of my Lenten duty to expiate my sins, you might say.
*UPDATE: This afternoon, Shaidle posted a "cartoon" of the burning Twin Towers, bodies falling out, under the headline: "I Hope You Die In An Ocean Of Flaming Jet Fuel." Words fail.
1. Number of editorials or columns published in the National Post* in recent weeks which attack the notion of protecting human rights (not including the one published yesterday that ridiculed Prime Minister Harper for lacking "principles" on the issue, because he is declining to summarily gut the Human Rights Act ): Twelve. Number defending human rights: Zero.
2. ...which, when you think about it, is rather odd. Perhaps Jon Kay can write a column attacking the idea of a human rights museum in Winnipeg, now. In fact, I dare him.
3. Are the Aspers - who may or may not be visiting this web site - aware that the aforementioned editor is taking submissions from a racist who mocks the Holocaust and calls for genocide in Africa? (Which the Post's comment editor permits her to call, scare quotes theirs, "that continent-wide parade of dysfunction known as 'Africa'.")
4. And, seeing as how we are getting candid and all that, here is yesterday's National Post contributor, Kathy Shaidle*, referring to children - even showing their photograph - as "parasites." Like the Nazis used to do with the Jews.
Damn, that felt good. Part of my Lenten duty to expiate my sins, you might say.
*UPDATE: This afternoon, Shaidle posted a "cartoon" of the burning Twin Towers, bodies falling out, under the headline: "I Hope You Die In An Ocean Of Flaming Jet Fuel." Words fail.