Vincent J. Curtis
19 June 2019
Since hate speech is moving to the front burner of public debate, let’s talk about officially sanctioned and approved hate speech. I refer to the MMIWG report that concluded white society was responsible for and engaged in a genocide of aboriginal women and girls.
This is hate speech. Not by the wildest stretches of the imagination can the disappearance and murder of some 1200 people over a span of twenty years, however regrettable these henious crimes are, be classed as a “genocide.” The murder of six million Jews in four years is a genocide. The murder of 400,000 Tutsi tribesman in a few weeks is a genocide. Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large number of people, especially of a particular ethnic group or nation.
The use of the term genocide was not a technical inaccuracy or a mild hyperbole. It was gross slander. It was an expression of hatred and anger. It had no place in a responsible commission report sponsored by the government of Canada. It was used because the commissioners couldn’t bear to look into the mirror, lest the Medusa of Aboriginal Culture be looking back at them.
I don’t care that the Prime Minister agrees with the use of the term. It only shows how shameless he is. (And maybe, if he is presiding, as PM, of a genocide, he should be taken to the International Criminal Court.)
I don’t care if polls show that people tend to agree with the term. It only shows how detached they are from the ugliness aimed at them.
Banning hate speech starts with banning the report of the MMIWG.
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