The not so Great Racism in Canada Thread

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Originally Posted by Pavlov

Right. And of course uttering a racial slur, in its own, is not a criminal offence in Canada. Indeed there is very little state suppression of such words at all in Canada (you can freely publish them in your film, book, blog etc). The state does place limits on advertising and, in some cases, on broadcast television, and maybe that is what savep is objecting to? But to me, that feels like a very minor (and mostly justified) intrusion on our freedom of expression.

Most sensible people also accept that there will be consequences to our decision to use certain language in certain circumstances: the workplace, places of worship, even at home with our families.

Anyway, I suppose saying "I oppose all forms of censorship" sounds edgy in the current zeitgeist, but it rings pretty hollow to me.

Note that we would not be discussing this if you had not casually equated racial slurs to the utterance of death threats in the course of committing a crime.