Thursday, May 28, 2009

On Crime & Hate

I was going to write a longer post on the subject of hate crime, but then I saw this...

Taken from http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/hatecrimes/:

"Section 319 deals with publicly stirring up or inciting hatred against an identifiable group based on colour, race, religion, ethnic origin or sexual orientation. It is illegal to communicate hatred in a public place by telephone, broadcast or through other audio or visual means. The same section protects people from being charged with a hate crime if their statements are truthful or the expression of a religious opinion." (emphasis added)

No. Just no. All kinds of no.

2 comments:

Asha said...

WHAT? wait, WHAT?

Ian said...

I know, right?