Bob

Income equality has nothing to do with "stability". "Standard of living" is just another subjective leftist idea, anyways. It's irrelevant what some organization defines as the measurement for "standard of living", and the countries we always see topping those lists are largely homogenous populations, anyways (although many of them are rapidly committing cultural and economic suicide by importing massive amounts of third-worlders from backwards societies who refuse to integrate and bleed the welfare state).

Any private business should be permitted to deny service to anyone for whatever reasons they choose.

I agree completely. But it's different when it comes to public hiring practises. In other words, the public service should not reward, or conversely punish, any person(s) for belonging (or not belonging) to a particular group. For example, I shouldn't be awarded some special bonus points because I am Jewish when applying for a public position over another applicant who is a "ordinary white male". As far as private businesses go, private businesses should be able to deny service to whomever they want for whatever reasons they want. Unfortunately, this isn't the case in Canada.

"Hate speech" is such a politicized term that is has now become meaningless. My attacks on the inferiority of Islamic/Arabic culture and its barbarism will regularly be decried by the rats on the left as hate speech. I am regularly described as a Nazi and as genocidal in this forum, as an example. In other words, criticizing sick practises that are primarily (or exclusively) associated with a particular group is now "hate speech", with the truth of the statement not being relevant. "Hate speech" is just a bullshit term used by the government in order to engage in thought control. It's Orwellian to the core. Incitement to violence is something else, however. Calling on others to be violent towards members of some identifiable group, in my view, certainly borders on the crime of uttering threats.

Sure, there are plenty of minority-owned businesses who hire their own over others. What do you propose we do about them? The reality is that in today's Canada, there is no obstacle of discrimination faced by any group that needs additional protections above and beyond the CCRF. Affirmative action and quota policies are racist and must be removed in all circumstances (for public employment, schools, and everything else).

The point is that no arbitrarily-defined group in Canada deserves any special treatment over others with respect to employment/welfare advantages.

That's certainly not what I was implying. I oppose all forms of preferential treatment (affirmative action, quotas, etc) in order to somehow rectify some perceived "systemic discrimination".

Ron Paul's approach would decimate the "Palestinians" and the rest of the Muslims/Arabs, who are utterly dependent on the foreign aid to survive. If America were to ever withdraw all of its aid to the "Palestinians" and other Muslims/Arabs... well, that would be beautiful. Unfortunately, America already tries to play both sides of the fence.

Nobody's offered anything substantial, at all. Like I said, I am echoing what plenty of intellectuals and scholars have explained regarding how fascism has much more in common with contemporary leftism than the contemporary right-wing. I am not the one who started this pathetic pissing contest to see who can compose a longer list of such people. It's irrelevant, anyways, as my arguments never hinge on agreement from some perceived authority. I never bring it up, because my level of argumentation is far beyond such pathetic appeals to authority. The fact remains, fascism being described as "extreme right-wing" is just another lie perpetrated by the leftists in academia, when any basic examination of the mechanisms of fascism instantly reveal it to be a harsher form of contemporary leftist politics (more and more government control masquerading as being in the best interests of "the people").

Most of these demonstrators and protestors in Tel Aviv are calling for more of the very same policies that have led to the current problems - government intervention in the form of more taxation on "the other", and more regulation via rent controls. What Israel needs to do is remove stupid banking regulations, for example the minimum 50% downpayment when purchasing a property (which essentially decimates the market while pretending to "protect" the banks). Remove red tape for construction and permit developers to buy and build more easily. And reduce taxes.

Yup. Let's just get enough votes together and take this and that from everyone we want. They have something we want? Let's just vote and take it from them!

Feel free to go ahead and explain to us the mechanisms behind this "accountability" from the CBC to Parliament.

"Household income" should never be measured. Only individual income. Ideally, you're also adding other relevant context such as age and education. Real flesh and blood move through these categories throughout their lives, static-imaginary people do not.

I agree 100%. Sell of the CBC's assets and let it stand on its own two feet, and abolish the CRTC.

Not really.

Decnetralization of control over the economy and culture are certainly not values that are espoused from the contemporary left in Western society. Indeed, the opposite is true, where is primarily the left that seeks more regulation (always in order to "protect" the public) over more economic and social affairs.

Excuse me, but "middle class white men" are discriminated against all the time in all sorts of situations. Whether it be racist affirmative action/quota systems in the public service that give "bonus points" to certain ethnic/racial/religious groups, or such people being fair game in dangerous minority-ethnic neighborhoods. Women face accessibility issues in Canada? Is that some sort of sick joke? Women are overrepresented in all sorts of positions and professions. Also in many universities and colleges. Also in sections of the government and associated bureaucracies! What world are you living in? As far as disabled people facing challenges... well, that's life with a disability. Deal with it. Canada is far too accommodating, as it is, for example consider building regulations which mandate privately owned properties to have certain accessibility options. People with a criminal record face challenges? Is that supposed to be some sort of problem we need to fix? I can't stand this whining from people like yourself who pretend to bear the mantle for these allegedly disadvantaged groups. This country is as free and equal as it gets. I can't stand listening to these lies about a racist, sexist, and intolerant Canada where these groups you listed off are somehow unfairly treated in our society. It's pure shit. I lived in Canada virtually my whole life, and the only discrimination I experienced was when I was assaulted THREE SEPARATE TIMES by Muslim Arabs who knew I was Jewish. If anything, I saw pathetic and sickening pandering from the "middle class white men" crowd towards certain minorities and groups.

Who is starting lynch mobs?

Essentially, an organization that is unaccountable to the very people that fund it - the taxpayers.

I don't really care what they say. I care what they did. Communism, when described by communists, is a beautiful utopia. I live in the real world, however, not the fantasy world. And in the real world, fascism has many more parallels with contemporary leftism (centralization of control over the economy and society) than with the contemporary right (decentralization of such control via freedom and liberty).

So we've got both GostHacked and dre on the record stating that they're totally fine with a Canada where 100% of women are wearing a hijab. In other words, the destruction of Canada is alright.

My God, you are so anti-wealth is it sickening. You are literally a caricature of the unemployed and uneducated leftist rebel without a clue wearing the Che Guevara t-shirt and lionizing Castro and the "beautiful healthcare system" of Cuba. People like you really sicken me.

The point is that reduction of freedom and increasingly centralized control over the economy and society are primarily changes advocated by the left. It's a simple point, really where the left thinks that any perceived problem can be corrected via more and more governmental control (often ignoring the realities of ills EXACERBATED by governmental controls).

I've already described, in moderate detail, how fascism must more closely resembles contemporary leftism than the contemporary right-wing. It's a simple point, and it's true. You talk about this imagined animosity between fascists and communists... you mean like this? Here. Here. Want to see images of Stalin meeting and greeting Nazis? Or the other way around?

"Illegal war". Are you now going to back that irrelevant rhetoric with some "authorities" from the "international community"? Perhaps the Iraqi courts have deemed it illegal, as well?