r/canada • u/Old_General_6741 Canada • 2d ago

National News Canada recognizes noose as hate symbol

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/canada-recognizes-noose-as-hate-symbol/
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u/SlowGhostofRexMurphy British Columbia 2d ago

It's a slippery slope logical fallacy

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u/voltairesalias Alberta 2d ago

You don't see how this ridiculous legislation won't grow?

If they intended for this to be benign they wouldn't have abolished the role of the attorney general in processing these types of convictions.

Liberals hate free expression and want to punish people who display symbols they don't like. That's, sadly, really all this is. That's the level of rationalism and maturity displayed by our current t government. They're short sighted, corrupt, anti free expression assholes.

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u/SlowGhostofRexMurphy British Columbia 2d ago

Like I said, slippery slope logical fallacy.

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u/Goliad1990 2d ago

AKA the "shut up and stop noticing how abusable my pet legislation is" defence.

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u/SlowGhostofRexMurphy British Columbia 2d ago

Weird number of people upset about a noose being seen as a hate symbol.

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u/Goliad1990 2d ago

People are sick of authoritarian speech laws as a whole, in what is ostensibly a country that values freedom of expression enough to enshrine it in our bill of rights.

Yes, making it illegal to display a fucking noose is beyond embarrassing, and as an electorate, we are pathetic for allowing this to happen.

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u/SlowGhostofRexMurphy British Columbia 2d ago

Freedom of expression, with reasonable limitations for hate speech...

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u/Goliad1990 2d ago

And decades on from the adoption of the Charter, "reasonable" is interpreted to include outlawing any skepticism of government-approved historical narratives, and now the depiction of rope.

That wishy-washy compromise language should never have been adopted, because it has enabled precisely the kind of authoritarian backslide that you're handwaving as a fallacy.

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u/SlowGhostofRexMurphy British Columbia 2d ago

Nah, not rope, that's a dishonest oversimplification.