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Pierre Breton (breton@McRCIM.McGill.EDU) wrote:

>I read a couple of follow-ups to Alex Lopez-Ortiz postings 
>"All men are bastards".  I will follow-up on the last one.

>In article <1993Aug31.202405.28853@mdivax1.uucp>, 
>mdivax1!robinson@pobox.mot.com (Jim Robinson) writes:
>|> 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. 
>|> -- 

>Have you ever wondered what it means to be equal in liberties 
>but not equal in power?

I do not expect to be equal in power to everyone else; e.g. the president
of Motorola is much more powerful than I am. What I do expect is to have an
equal *opportunity* at achieving those things that I deem important (which
may or may not include power), and I also expect to be treated equally
before the law. I *especially* expect to be treated equally without regard
to my gender, race, or religion (or lack thereof). The recent SC ruling
tossed the notion of equality out the window; thus, I find it very
upsetting. Using the logic of that ruling (and behind the "all men are
bastards" calendar) any number of freedoms can be denied to an individual
simply because he is a member of the "wrong" group. It is this same mindset
which is behind the Ontario NDP's quota legislation and is just another
example of the double standard which has taken the notion of equality and
twisted it to mean something very different and very bad.  One does not
make a right by legislating a wrong.
-- 
Jim Robinson
robinson@mdd.comm.mot.com
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