"Human Rights" Are a Threat to Free Speech

They are being weaponized for political gain.

 "Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself." 

― Salman Rushdie, author.

Freedom of speech means freedom for those you despise and to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorise and which to prevent. 

―  Alan Dershowitz

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

―  Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the last decade, there have been over 1,000 attempts to punish or “cancel” professors for their speech, resulting in nearly 200 firings. This figure is nearly twice the number of professors fired during the infamous Red Scare period of the 1950s, when about 100 professors were dismissed due to accusations of communist sympathies.

— Greg Lukianoff

Free speech at some Canadian universities and colleges has strangely met opposition from the Human Rights folks. Go figure. 

Moreover, parliamentarians are beating on the straw-filled scarecrow of free…