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IF... sre mamta prank Mr.MacDonald was suspend- _ NEWS VIEWPOINT eat aids F YOU believe governments are listening to the’ people, you are.a good:candidate ' for some: swampland in New Jersey or a date with the tooth fairy. “CA pair-of recent news stories leave no doubt that wads of cotton batting remain in “the ears of elected officials, unless, of course, ‘you represent the. pressure group du:jour.or - the latest band of professional victims. “Consider, for exampie, recent Gallup poll | results: ‘showing ‘that only 11% of British ‘Columbians support:the lame-brained idea “of employment equity hiring programs. «|; Employment equity. is touted .by its pro- = “moters-as an earnest way for. employers such | “as the federal government to level. the . ~ employment playing field by instituting .quo- 2 tas, for hiring minorities and other so-called disadvantaged people under-represented in the workplace. = | But the silent majority sees the scheme for what it-is: institutionalized discrimination: against the majority; entrenchment of medi- ocrity at the expense of merit. Will the politicians listen to such over- whelming disapproval of employment equi- ty? Swampland, anyone? Elsewhere, according to recent media reports, the cost of political correctness — the new fascism —- is costing Canadian tax- payers millions of dollars annually to remove language perceived to be offensive to the thin - of skin and the enemies of directness. ; “Will anyone in government. be aghast enough at such financial waste to act? You guessed it: no one is listening. LETTER OF THE AY Holocaust ‘liars’ not interested i in truth Dear Editor: This is the threat of Faurisson. For two reasons, -it is s difficult to respond to the fies and the anti- . Semitism of, Robert Faurisson . (News, Dec. 3, page 8). | . First, he, Doug Collins, and “other Holocaust deniers seek legiti- . macy through debate with a'non- . entity: “exterminationists.” “-.* Second, those. who lie about the Holocaust are.not interested in truth and reason. < There is a\wider and older con- text which Faurisson and Collins’ inhabit. It is the territory of hate. The immensity, the horror, and ‘the shame of the Holocaust are dif- ficult to understand. {tis normal, therefore, to expect that most people will not have read enough to challenge the liars. It is also normal to want to believe it was not as bad as all that.” Acknowledging the truth means that each of us is capable of partici- pating in a second Holocaust. Holocaust denial is the challenge to do it again. of our civilization” Collins and their ik against “all who believe that knowledge and memory are among the keystones (Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust, p. 19). In Haly the Tascists are being re- elected..In Germany, once again, the Nazis ‘are murde ering. non- whites. On the North Shore truth and Teason dire being raped. David Hunnings — North Vancouver - Peter Speck Managing Editor . - Timothy Renshaw ‘Associate Editor -Noel Wright Sales & Marketing Director. Linda Stewart: Comptroller /. . . Doug Foot North’ Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualified under Schedule 114, Paragraph Ill of the Excise Tax Act, is published ‘each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by. North Shore Free Press Ltd, and distnbuted to every door on the North Shore. Canada Post Canadian Publications Mail Sates Product Agreement No. 0087238. 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And last week the potit- ically correct were being dumped on so often that they were starting to LOOK a bit like underdogs. It began with Vancouver Community College student Ron MacDonald, who mimicked a machine gun attack during a memo- tial service for the 14 women killed in the 1989 Montreal massacre. For this stupid and tasteless ed for three days and has been ‘ordered to undergo 10 weeks of counselling. Surprise, surprise! AH kinds of media commentators and listeners to phone-in shows promptly leaped to Mr.MacDonald’s defence. — ; They condemned his senseless and insulting act. But they stressed repeatedly that it’s not yel.a crime in Canada to merely make an offen- _ sive ass of oneself. So what right had VCC to formally penalize him for doing nothing more than that? Mid-week brought a criticat took at political correctness on Dan” Rather's 60-minute CBS show 48 Hours, starting with the witchhunt of-a mule Vassar College student ‘accused, but never proven guilty, of © obscene phone calls—which he flatly and believably denied mak- ing. / We watched 4 a Seattle “diversity training” firm teach PC clients “an entirely new language.” And we learned from the compiler of The. Politically Correct Dictionary non- offensive ternts for prostitute (“sex care provider”) and looter (“non- traditional shopper”). Finally, closer to home, ex-civil servant Ray McLennan has just launched the Institute for Political incorreciness in Abbotsford. He estimates the feds alone spend around $35 million a year to remové so-called offensive lan- guage from government paperwork. He’s now investigating similar madness at provincial and munici- pallevels, 9°, Special i interest groups, he charges, are pressuring govern: ments to neuter the English lan- gui nge—as inhis favorite example, a recent government memo requir- ‘this—with politically incorrect _ Someone, and even openly laughing | _ TAILPIECES: College's’ Keith Watt,” audi -jnstructor in the Media Resource ing. drunks to bé called “sobrie deprived.” ‘ As well, ‘he’ $ lashing out at “the: ‘trend to curb Christmas displays on public buildings for fear of offend ing non-Christians. |! : Hf we get many more weeks like i ‘peasants rejecting insults to their intelligence, Spei aking their minds without worrying, about offending at their betters-—the potitically cor- rect will soon be an endangered species. +! Just don’t let's ™ Congrats to ‘Ca Program, on winning the Jack Webster Award for journalistic excellence in. radio, for the third’ time in its seven- year: ‘history i. 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