Quick summary: In Montreal, a used car salesman called a gay man "fifi", and the government fined him a thousand dollars for doing so. Disgusting.

Politkal Korrektness, comrade? What kind of limp-wrist pansy-boy goes crying to the government just because he's called "fifi"? Are Canadians that fucking weak? Or is it just Canadian gays? Wah, wah, wah, the bad man called me the name for a poodle, get him in front of judges! And what does the Canadian government think of its people, that they need to enact laws like that to begin with? They have a fucking tribunal to rule on name-calling?

At least he said it in French. I suppose that if the insult had been delivered in English, there would be an additional charge added.

UPDATE: Kenny e-mails:

The idiocy of it all, is that free speech for *everyone* makes it harder for biggoted groups to gain traction. Sure, they might be fashionable at times or may be able to hook a few single-issue people, but in the end their ability to spew their bile ends up turning ordinary people off and they end up marginalizing themselves. Where are the KKK, the Black Panthers, the Arayan Nation, the Communists, the Anarchists? They can't build any momentum because their hate and idiocy are open for all to see. In contrast, the neo-Nazis are still a force in Germany. Why? Because they are specifically outlawed. Their repulsive ideals are not on display for everyone to ridicule and it's tempting for young people to eat of the forbidden fruit. In the U.S. they get mocked in movies like The Blues Brothers and very few take them seriously.

Yeah. Though the same argument can be used to show that things like drinking and drugs aren't as big a problem in Europe as they are here, because they're demystified for kids at an early age, and kept from becoming "forbidden fruit" the way bigoted groups are here. Different peoples, different priorities; and the more things like this come to light, the more different I realize our various countries really are. And all this time I'd assumed everyone was growing more and more similar.

Also, Paul Denton has comments on a somewhat related case.