The Sensitivity Police: Where's American Multiculturalism Heading?

Human Events ^ | July 16, 2008 | Jack Langer

[Lafayette99]

By now, many conservatives have heard of the Canadian Human Rights Commissions thanks to the decision by three CHRCs to investigate hate crimes complaints against Maclean’s magazine for printing -- among other things -- excerpts from conservative writer Mark Steyn’s book, America Alone.

While two of the complaints against Maclean’s have been dismissed, the CHRCs continue their jihad against their fellow citizens who dare to offend certain protected minorities. One of their ongoing cases is the investigation of a newspaper for publishing a cartoon of a Muslim woman dressed in a burqa even though the woman does, in fact, wear a burqa. Another investigation involves a stand-up comedian who insulted a pair of drunk lesbians after they began making out and heckling him during a performance. These and other bizarre cases are well-documented on the website of the conservative polemicist Ezra Levant, who is now in his third year of being investigated for the sensitivity crime of publishing the Danish Mohammed cartoons.

Many Americans can only shake their heads at the nutty excesses of multiculturalism in Canada. Government investigations for insulting people? That kind of thing could never happen here . . . Right? Continued

Wrong, probably. Multiculturalism may not be as advanced in America as it is in Canada, but it’s on the same path. The U.S. already has a number of federal multicultural policies, most notably the annual Diversity Visa Lottery. However, as the sorry lesson of Canada demonstrates, the key to pushing multiculturalist laws from the level of the mildly ridiculous into the rarified realm of the monumentally stupid is to advance them first on the local level, where action attracts little public scrutiny.

Read the entire article at http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=27536

[Conspiracy Guy]

I guess I’ll have to be careful on all my hate thoughts.

[JimRed]

Oh, Canada!

:^(

[Da Coyote]

We’re heading towards a civil war. Perhaps Obamaloon’s civilian force (better equipped than our military, according to the loon) can handle it. Of course, I highly suspect that his “troops” won’t be firing in the direction that most of us would like.

[haroldeveryman]

“..if you’re going to prosecute some outrageous case of political correctness, it has to be against a nobody, who doesn’t have the resources to fight back or marshal public attention. The Philadelphia and the Canadian sensitivity police had no choice but to dismiss these cases... “ (against Mark Stein and Geno’s restaurant) “... because everyone was watching.”

So these “Human Rights Commissions” are operating in the US under some guise or other. This article shows that a little publicity is in order.

[Tzimisce]

Interesting.

[BooksForTheRight.com]

The left wants us to get upset over this unfairness, so that we will lose control and say something that they can get us for. We do not have freedom of speech, or thought. Gone.