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link Lesbian Insults Get Comic Fined.

They don’t label us the ‘left coast’ for nothing.  It’s not bad enough that we are the font of looney tunes tree hugging, dope smoking, sandal wearing, toque in summer, unshaven latte sippers.  Now we can’t even make fun of the people who live here, many of whom are conspicuous caricatures of themselves.  While it’s arguably rude to point out and ridicule many of the fringe contingent here on the west coast, you would think that within the confines of a comedy club, everyone’s fair game.  Especially if they initiate it.  Apparently not, as the story shows.  A quasi official kangaroo court called the BC Human Rights council has sided with the allegedly zaftig lesbians and awarded them $15,000 for the mental anguish they suffered at the hands of a comic, Guy Earl, whom they had heckled.

This award will establish a cottage industry in idiots who  will act or dress as belligerently as possible in order to secure some form of restitution from some government adjudicator.  That’s admittedly a cynical conclusion but we know that scamming money from the government, especially a naive and malleable one, is practically a professional pursuit.  But come on, anyone who has lived here has seen the kaleidoscope of freaks and geeks who present themselves to the public purely for titillation value as if they were repressed exhibitionists.  During the spring celebration of cannibis in Vancouver, you’d think that a Lady Gaga bomb went off.   I get it.  It’s all about individualism…but is it really?  Is calling overt attention to yourself not more a gesture of rebellion to society at large than of self actualization?  If that’s not the case, why would anyone wear their hair in a pink mohawk?  How does that express your inner id?  Unless of course, you actually happened to be a Mohawk…and gay.  How does a face bedecked with  piercings and tattoos not invite reactions of either  horror or ridicule from regular folk?  With the plethora of weirdos and nutballs living here, the fodder for comics is virtually unlimited.  If, within the safe confines of a comedy club, they aren’t eligible to be made fun of,  they may as well convert these places to bingo parlors.  Who would comics skewer?  Eventually, even  Michael Moore jokes get stale.

In the case of these sensitive women in the comedy club, why was it necessary for them to broadcast the details of their relationship to the audience?  If they’re going to do that and also heckle the comic, it’s like bending over in a short skirt during a prison visit.  However, the real villains are not the comely ladies.  In our overly litigious society of unlimited entitlements, people will push for anything; after all, what’s the downside? We can’t blame the women for their inane complaint.  No, the idiots in this saga are the weenies on the BC Human Rights council.  That such a body exists is an insult to the population, not a credit.  The irony of being told what is acceptable to say in a free society is completely lost on them.  It can’t be long before they tag global warming skeptics as spreaders of hate speech.  Will Roberto Luongo have a case to sue for all the inartful names hurled at him by disgruntled fans the next time he lets in 5 goals? Will ‘fatty, fatty two by four’ be a fineable taunt? This charade of a judiciary needs to be disbanded and the members made to get real jobs, maybe as models for Oscar Mayer.

All of this PC stuff is unnatural if you think about it. People are naturally tribal, it’s in their genetic make up.  In the old days it was a matter of survival.  If someone strange came into a group, their conspicuous differences would be a warning to others in the tribe to be on alert for possible hostile actions.  The entire construct of social customs and protocols evolved to identify those that would be compatible within any society.  Back in the day, the natives thought it was a good idea to welcome the novel white skinned people who came upon them on the big wooden ships.  They had strange clothes and spoke gibberish, but how could it hurt to befriend them?  Next thing you know, the natives are living on reservations.

In our modern enlightened society, it’s more correct to embrace the differences in a population and to ‘tolerate’ and celebrate their variety.  This is all kumbaya, except that many of society’s sub groups not only require acceptance, but demand to be treated as exceptional.  If fact, they don’t want to just fit into society, they want society to fit into them.  It won’t be long before the regular folk are living on the reservations.