Blog inciting hatred against women ruled legal

[terriko]

It turns out that Canadian laws against incitement of hatred were written to protect minorities, and do not include women: Blog inciting hatred against women ruled legal.

Edit: No April Fools joke, sadly. I just forgot to post this yesterday when I heard it on the radio.

Comments

[heliumbreath]

I suppose it would make too much sense for the law to be against incitement of hatred, full stop, and not consider whether the target was a minority or majority or anything in between. In fact, one doesn't even need to be part of the target group to still perceive the material as stupid and offensive. But I'm not comfortable with cutting into freedom of speech either; if we start handing out muzzles eventually what goes around comes around and we'll find out we slighted someone's feelings.

(And I guess I should suppose too that being born a white male meant that I never held any great expectation that minority-protection laws were ever going to do anything to help me in the first place.)

[terriko]

I was actually surprised that it specifies who it protects. I would have thought inciting hatred was not cool regardless of who it was against. I guess maybe they wanted to limit it, but... seriously, it wouldn't be cool for someone to go around suggesting we kill male engineers to even out the numbers either. :P

[shadowspar]

Seriously, not cool. This ruling is just begging for an appeal and a Charter challenge under Section 15.

[(Anonymous)]

Why has there not been an appeal??????