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Old 12-05-2016, 07:49 AM   #3309
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague View Post
It's the "unquestioned" part that gets me... of course free speech includes hate speech, it includes everything. Even where we have hate speech laws, the Supreme Court recognizes that those laws are limits on freedom of expression, but they're allowable as reasonable limits in a free and democratic society under s.1 of the Charter. I just don't know who the geniuses are that think no one can tell them they're wrong. That's kind of the entire point of the principle. If you'd said "unpunished", that'd be a different thing.
Read Popehat for a while. Then you'll know. In the US, people actually sue other people when told they are wrong.
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