Here’s yet another illustration of why I consider people who unironically use the expression “human rights” to be clinically retarded:
The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has found the township of Emo will have to pay damages after refusing to proclaim Pride Month back in 2020.
Borderland Pride requested Emo to declare June as Pride Month and display a rainbow flag for one week but the township refused, resulting in a years-long process in which the tribunal ruled against the township.
The tribunal ruled Borderland Pride will be awarded $15,000, with $10,000 coming from the township itself and the other $5,000 coming from Emo mayor Harold McQuaker.
In Ontario, it’s now “a human right” to force other people to put up a rainbow flag. As I’ve been explaining for months, a right is whatever a specific interest group can recruit institutions of power into supporting. There are no vague human rights floating in the air outside of the societies we build. Whatever is or is not “a human right” depends on who in society has a larger stick to beat everybody else into submission.
The shift in usage from “rights” (meaning, a specific list codified in the foundational documents of the nation-state) to “human rights” (a meaningless expression that is supranational by its very nature) allows to expand into infinity the list of petty grievances of invented identities under the rubric of humanity-wide interests. “Human rights” exist to deprive us of our constitutional or charter rights.
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