I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
CHRCs jump the shark…again…
September 22, 2008
OR: if you like visible minorities, you’re a racist.
Say that again with me, one more time, for clarity. If you like visible minorities, you, sir, are a racist, and quite possibly worse than Hitler.
Jonathan Kay has an excellent article up, in which freespeecher BCF gets an honourable mention, about the case of paranoiacally aggrieved Health Canada employee Dr. Shiv Chopra, who filed a human rights complaint against Health Canada after his then-boss, André Lachance, began a lecture “with the declaration that — horror of horrors — ‘he liked visible minorities.’”
I think the good Reader can guess what happened from there. Dr. Chopra took “offence,” called this a “racist remark,” and filed a human rights complaint which was recently decided (no surprises here) in his favour. He was awarded a few thousand dollars, and Health Canada has no doubt had to pay hundreds of thousands more dollars in legal fees, in addition to having to pay Dr. Chopra “compensation” for the horrible act of “Racism” perpetrated by André Lachance. Who knew that it was a hate crime to express one’s enjoyment of ethnic diversity in the workplace?
I’ve been putting a lot of stuff into the “Asteroid Overdue” category these last couple of weeks. The decline of civilization, methinks, is beginning to accelerate, if it had not done so already.
Update: Welcome, Steynians!
