Re: All men are bastards

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From: Jim Robinson
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 20:24

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Alex Lopez-Ortiz (alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:

>I just saw in a couple of bookstores a 1993-1994 calendar titled
>"All men are bastards".

>The calendar, as you may assume is mostly a repetition of the title
>with drawings and in different situations.

>Since the humour content is fairly low I wonder whether this type 
>of calendar would qualify as "hatred literature" and is thus 
>illegal in Canada.

The recent, ludicrous Supreme court ruling re prison guards would make me
guess that the above would not qualify as "hate lit" because men are not a
historically disadvantaged group, nor have they been historically
persecuted or deprived of their rights. In other words, some groups are
now more equal than others. 
-- 
Jim Robinson
robinson@mdd.comm.mot.com
{ubc-cs!van-bc,uunet}!mdivax1!robinson

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