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It’s true, we’ve heard this before. The Missing Sockpuppet compares the case of Abrams v. North Shore Press at a B.C. human rights tribunal to the complaint against Maclean’s.
The similarities are uncanny.
So why wasn’t there a campaign to end human rights commissions back in 1996? That’s right, there was – but it was all neo-Nazis and their sympathizers.
What’s perhaps most interesting is that the published articles in question, found at the end of the case, are less inflammatory than the contents in question from Maclean’s.
The Missing Sockpuppet has done an entire series on this subject.
So why the double standard? Some Canadians apparantly have less rights today in contemporary society than others, what the Missing Sockpuppet calls the turban effect.
But all the more reason for human rights tribunals to step in to create a more level playing field.
