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Originally Posted by Colonel Flagg
The point? Most people will accept a moment of weakness as just that - a moment of weakness. If he apologizes quickly and sincerely, maybe has lunch with a GLBT group and discuss their concerns about this kind of behavior and what can be done, this will all be water under the bridge.
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You'd think so, and he has apologized pretty profusely. He even went so far as to say in his apology speech in the house of commons that 'things like that shouldn't be allowed to be said' or something to that effect. Maybe Canada will toughen up its hate crime laws and make jokes about faggots illegal now. But ya, despite apologies that have actually been generally considered sincere the opposition is still insisting that he should resign. And apparently, although I have to think the media is distorting this, the 'public' is highly outraged and thinks the guy should resign. I keep seeing interviews of people on the street acting like this is a huge deal, it's bizzarre.
A little while earlier there was this native chief in Canada who decided not to try to get back in to some native organization on account of some comments he made a few years ago about jews, for which he was actually charged with hate crimes, and there are some people comparing these two situations too. Now, Ahenakew, this chief said that the Jews were a disease and that Hitler did a good job 'frying' six million of them. And he said that to a reporter at a conference of some kind too (although he was still probably drunk at the time anyway :racism) but people are trying to compare these cases now too. I dunno, Lukiwski's joke was about how homosexual faggots spread diseases, but it's not like he was saying faggotism is a disease or anything.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/natio...rge030611.html
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