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Old 12-10-2007, 07:17 PM
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Default Re: The big mess over Macleans' Islamophobic article

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Originally Posted by Variable View Post
Thanks for the uh... Wikipedia link. The only way I can see them leveraging any legal action is if they call this hate speech. Which it falls far short of. This isn't a teacher who's got a classroom full of impressionable young students with no escape... it's a journalist who wrote an opinion piece. It may be a very strong opinion, alarmist and utterly absurd. But it's a long shot to say that what he was writing was a violation of human rights. Give me a break. I like Timbit's strategy... vote with your dollars, voice concern about Maclean's - but claiming this as hate speech is seriously reaching.
You do realize that your opinion stacked up against that of Osgoode Hall grads doesn't mean much, right?

In any case, pass some popcorn, we'll both sit and watch.
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