Canada & DoublePlusGoodSpeak

For anyone who found Orwell's description of doublespeak unbelievable, look no further than Canada.  Excerpts follow:

..."Hateful words” can lead to “unspeakable crimes.” The problem with this line is that it’s ahistorical twaddle, as I’ve pointed out. Yet still it comes up. It did last month, during my testimony to the House of Commons justice committee, when an opposition MP mused on whether it wouldn’t have been better to prohibit the publication of Mein Kampf.

“That analysis sounds as if it ought to be right,” I replied. “But the problem with it is that the Weimar Republic—Germany for the 12 years before the Nazi party came to power—had its own version of Section 13 and equivalent laws. It was very much a kind of proto-Canada in its hate speech laws. The Nazi party had 200 prosecutions brought against it for anti-Semitic speech. At one point the state of Bavaria issued an order banning Hitler from giving public speeches.”

And a fat lot of good it all did.

But still the old refrain echoes through the corridors of power: vigorous honest free speech will lead to mass murder unless we subject it to “reasonable limits.”

Read the whole thing. Political correctness requires one to express oneself only in ways and according to standards dictated by our political masters--not by any objective measure of good or bad, right or wrong, or even polite or impolite. There is no justice in it. There is no fairness. Political correctness demands the speech of other people ought to conform to your politics, and if they did they same to you, they'd be guilty of oppression.