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Originally Posted by Fuzz
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The Criminal Code currently includes an exemption for hate speech, "if, in good faith, the person expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text."
The Bloc is expected to introduce the amendment to remove that section of the code as part of Bill C-9 — dubbed the Combatting Hate Act
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Sounds good to me. Why should someone get an exemption to be a bigot based on interpretation of some trash some rando dudes wrote 2000 years ago? Is that what we value protecting as a society? The right to be a ####o for those indoctrinated hard enough, but also have an ####### enough heart to behave in a way they may end up running against this law? But please, present an argument why I am wrong.
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As long as that amendment doesn't open the door for claims that
critique is persecution. You point out what the Quran or the Bible plainly says, and unfailingly, some idiot will shout 'IsLaMoPhObIa!!1!' or cry foul that 'Christians are being persecuted'. My concern is protecting the distinction between
criticizing ideas and
attacking people, and I wonder if that particular section of the code provides protection for that, because the way I'm reading it could theoretically cut both ways, no?