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December 14, 2007
Did it just get colder in here?
Barbara Hall says: "Stereotyping any one community by assuming that certain people are more likely to commit illegal activity is not only wrong, it’s against the law."
She's wrong, surely. Right? "Assuming that certain people are more likely to commit illegal activity" can't possibly be illegal unless and until one acts upon said assumption—say, by running a pickup off the road because it's full of Chinese-looking people you assume committed some sort of angling infractions. No, wait—that's illegal no matter what you thought they did. Hmm. Am I allowed to think a Saudi is more likely to be a terrorist than a Bermudan?
Oh, our wacky HRCs. Perhaps while Hall is clarifying her bizarre comment, she can explain why Maclean's should face sanction for excerpting a bestselling book even as the Toronto Public Library system lends out 72 copies of the entire friggin' thing for free.
Posted by Chris Selley at December 14, 2007 11:57 AM
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