{"id":50734,"date":"2025-12-04T19:13:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=50734"},"modified":"2025-12-04T19:18:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:18:52","slug":"politics-religion-no-excuse-for-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/politics-religion-no-excuse-for-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics: religion no excuse for hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Self-tutoring about politics: the tutor mentions a headline, and some ideas behind it.<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe following is according to my understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\nMarc Miller, who recently re-joined cabinet with languages and culture portfolios, hasn&#8217;t hesitated to make his voice heard, with the welcome remark &#8220;Religion is no excuse for hate.&#8221; Miller has agreement from Yves-Francois Blanchet, leader of the Bloc Quebecois, in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>\nSome people seem to suggest that banning hate speech contravenes freedom of speech, so is a bad idea on principle. (We have an answer to that in Canada, but that&#8217;s for another post.) Nevertheless, it seems somewhat absurd to ban some hate speech yet permit other hate speech. Rather, it seems more consistent to ban all hate speech, or else withdraw regulation of it.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ca\/news\/canada\/religion-is-no-excuse-for-hate-carney-s-newest-minister-says-of-proposed-removal-of-hate-speech-defence\/ar-AA1RzHS8?ocid=msedgntp&#038;pc=U531&#038;cvid=692fd4538cd14030b70f403790a07595&#038;ei=204\">msn.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about politics: the tutor mentions a headline, and some ideas behind it. The following is according to my understanding. Marc Miller, who recently re-joined cabinet with languages and culture portfolios, hasn&#8217;t hesitated to make his voice heard, with the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/politics-religion-no-excuse-for-hate\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Politics: religion no excuse for hate<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2971],"tags":[3884],"class_list":["post-50734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-freedom-of-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50734"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50742,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50734\/revisions\/50742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}