Canadian Indian attacks Canada's public broadcaster!
CBC guilty of hate speech? Indian chief says so -- wants CBC to censor comments left on its blogs that ridicule indigenous people
"Media organizations are creating a forum for online racism by allowing readers and bloggers to comment on stories on news websites, Manitoba First Nations leaders said Wednesday. They're now calling on the Manitoba government to investigate the CBC, in particular, for violating Canada's hate laws. "I'm hoping for a public outcry, that people will say, `That's racist. That's enough,' " Southern Grand Chief Morris Swan Shannacappo said Wednesday at a news conference.
Swan Shannacappo and Chief Russell Beaulieu of the Sandy Bay First Nation called the media after university student leaders came to them with the results of monitoring news websites from April 2008 to this month. They say what they read shocked them.
The leaders are now asking for help to prevent racism either by public pressure or criminal deterrence. There are "persistent bloggers who pounce on almost any story dealing with First Nations or indigenous issues and use it as an excuse to rant against or ridicule indigenous people," Swan Shannacappo said.
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The CBC does filter blog comments but not enough, apparently.
7 comments:
hmm, "Media organizations are creating a forum for online racism by allowing readers and bloggers to comment on stories on news websites".
In other words, free speech is inherencly racist?
In other words, free speech is inherently racist?
To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin - "Free Speech is never racist in the First Person - Our Free Speech. It is only in the third person - THEIR Free Speech - that it becomes racist."
Hello Good Gentles All!
I find it odd that in the source there are no examples of what the disliked speech is.
“Providing a forum for people to, you know, express their view on contentious issues brings a risk,” said Keay.
Spoken like a true gonvernment censor trying to apologize for letting something acually be said.
The risk appears to be that people might actually speak their minds and offer an opinion and maybe (shock! and horror!) discuss a controversial issue without the benign control of the state making sure they do not hurt themselves by thinking too much or saying out loud what is on their minds.
Chief Swan is well named. He is most truly a bird brain.
Pax,
InFides
Would they say the same things about Muslims or jews? Perhaps that's where the charge of racism lies.
Although I consider racists to be misguided and ignorant, should they not enjoy "freedom of conscience"? They key to eliminating racism is by educating those who hold racist views, not by stifling their speech.
Southern Grand Chief Morris Swan Shannacappo
Shannacappo?
Sounds like some kind of faux Italian coffee drink you would purchase at Starbucks.
A good point Professor, but what some consider racist, others consider simply opinion. No one has the right to ban my opinion simply because they disagree with it. That they call it racist is most often done to give cover to those who would censor all they disagree with. And again, a fact can not be racist, only uncomfortable to those who don't want it known.
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