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"Mark Steyn, human rights activist."
A year or so back, I was talking with Ezra Levant about our travails in Canada, and he remarked on the way the media accept self-described "human rights activists" at their own valuation - ie, a statist control freak who supports ever vaster government powers can label himself a "human rights activist" and the press will generally string along with it. And Ezra said that, as someone fighting to restore real human rights to Canada, he might start describing himself as a "human rights activist".Well, a while later, it was time to update my bio, and someone said we should have a line in there about the "human rights" fracas. So, taking my cue from Ezra, we put in: "Mark Steyn is a Canadian human rights activist. That's to say, he's actively trying to destroy the Canadian 'Human Rights' Commission." On Wednesday, down in Bedford, New Hampshire, I gave a speech at a fundraiser for the Vesta Roy Excellence in Public Service Series. Before the dinner, I was interviewed by The Union Leader. The reporter had evidently read the bio, or at any rate skimmed it - for, in Thursday's paper (print edition only, alas), the story begins: Mark Steyn, a political columnist, human rights activist and guest host of The Rush Limbaugh Show, spoke to a group of Republican women yesterday about the state of New Hampshire politics, and the perils of the political future. Yes, indeed. It's official now: "Mark Steyn, human rights activist." Posted by: tipper 2010-05-09 |
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