{"id":421,"date":"2025-01-02T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/?p=421"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:13:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T21:13:46","slug":"hate-speech-is-not-an-opinion-its-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Hate Speech is not an &#8220;opinion&#8221;, it&#8217;s a crime."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:300\">note: If you witness or are subject to racial abuse, you can now <a href=\"https:\/\/racistincidenthelpline.ca\/?gad_source=1\">get help and report it via a non-governmental hotline<\/a> if you are not comfortable contacting the police directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve had some feedback defending the &#8220;All White Men Are Bastards&#8221; crowd referred to in a <a href=\"https:\/\/dretch.com\/?p=317\">previous missive<\/a>, the same tired excuses the venue staff used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To them I say: You&#8217;re wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethics arguments aside, check the laws regarding public speech (such as in a music venue). They protect ALL genders and races along with many other attributes, including age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bchumanrights.ca\/resources\/hate-speech-qa\/#hate-speech-and-the-law-1-what-is-hate-speech\">Hate Speech Q and A<\/a> (BC\u2019s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/laws-lois.justice.gc.ca\/eng\/acts\/C-46\/section-319.html\">Willful Promotion of Hatred<\/a> (Federal Government Justice Law)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lop.parl.ca\/sites\/PublicWebsite\/default\/en_CA\/ResearchPublications\/201825E\">Hate Speech and Freedom of Expression: Legal Boundaries in Canada<\/a> (Library of Parliament)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>note: If you witness or are subject to racial abuse, you can now get help and report it via a non-governmental hotline if you are not comfortable contacting the police directly. I&#8217;ve had some feedback defending the &#8220;All White Men Are Bastards&#8221; crowd referred to in a previous missive, the same tired excuses the venue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hate","category-learning","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}