Comments on: Repressed Political Speaker To File Human Rights Complaint in Canada

By: SLC

SLC — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:17:06 +0000

Is that nice, calling Tranny Annie Coulter a faggot?

By: momkat

momkat — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:47:33 +0000

I thought the guy was doing her a favor, reminding her that she wasn’t in Kansas anymore.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:51:04 +0000

D.C.: Not too meta, I think I just misunderstood your meaning. My bad. Thanks for the correction.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:44:21 +0000

So what’s with calling her a faggot?

That’s a quote from her, but she was referring to someone else. I’m just reminding people of what Ann Coulter is all about. See: http://tinyurl.com/yaggf5s

By: Art

Art — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:36:13 +0000

Let’s not beat up on dung beetles. They take dung and make something useful out of it. Many are creating a brooding chamber with their rolling. All of them fill a vital niche in the ecosystem.

Coulter, not so much. In fact one might wonder if dung beetles would try to roll Coulter into a ball.

By: Rob Jase

Rob Jase — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:07:32 +0000

So what’s with calling her a faggot?

I’ve never met any homosexual, male or female, even half as obnoxious as Annie.

Besides, her reassignment surgery went relatively well IMO.

By: D. C.

D. C. — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:37:42 +0000

Greg, I don’t believe I said anything about telling other people to “sit down and shut up”. Perhaps you could show with of the three sentences I wrote contains that phrase. The protesters have every right to speak their mind. As does Coulter, as vile as she is.

If that’s too meta for you, then I’m sorry.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:23:15 +0000

D.C., so you would fight to the death (which I find hard to believe so Anne Coulter can dish out her vile rhetoric, but you are at the same time telling people who gather in numbers to shout back at her to sit down and shut up?

You need to bring your thinking out to one more level of meta.

By: itzac

itzac — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:48:53 +0000

A woman’s who’s made a career of hating and being hated is upset because people hate her?

http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/03/23/throw-ann-coulter-in-jail/

This articles makes a pretty good case that the justification of the letter as a warning is pretty specious, though I think calling it a threat, or oppressive is also pretty strong. It was a smarmy way of saying “Please be nice.” But last I checked smarminess wasn’t illegal in Canada.

And frankly, if I’m lending my venue to someone, I have no problem setting boundaries for the speaker. If she doesn’t like it she can find another venue.

It’s ironic, however, that Coulter is turning to the human rights commission, given that her host here, Ezra Levant, wrote a whole book about how it should be abolished.

By: D. C.

D. C. — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:45:54 +0000

I’m an absolutist on free speech rights, so I would fight to the death for Ann Coulter or any one else to speak her mind. And I really do think that efforts to shout her down or protest her giving a talk at a university generally do more harm to the protesters than it does her.

But having said that, Coulter has been so toxic to intelligent discourse in the USA, there’s a part of me that, when she when does get shouted down, just wants to say, “Ha ha!”