What does Barack Obama have in common with the Ontario Human Rights Commission?

What does Democratic Nominee Barack Obama have in common with the Ontario Human Rights Commission?

Marxism. The ideas that Mark Steyn so rightly points out in this must-read essay in this week's Maclean's Magazine were responsible for the death of millions.

Mark writes:

Hmm. "History has shown us that hateful words sometimes lead to hurtful actions that undermine freedom and have led to unspeakable crimes." Commissar Lynch provides, as she would say, "no substantiation for these claims." But then she's a "hate speech" prosecutor and, as we know, Canada's "human rights" procedures aren't subject to tiresome requirements like evidence. So she's made an argument from authority: the great Queen's Counsel has risen from her throne in the Star Chamber and pronounced, and let that suffice. Those of us who occupy less exalted positions in the realm might wish to ponder the evidence for her assertions.

It's true that "hurtful actions that undermine freedom" and lead to "unspeakable crimes" usually have some fig leaf of intellectual justification. For example, the ideology first articulated by Karl Marx has led to the deaths of millions of people around the planet on an unprecedented scale. Yet oddly enough, no matter how many folks are murdered in the name of Marxism-Leninism, you're still free to propound its principles at every college in Canada.

And, free to have the neo-Marxist inheritors of these utopian death cults provide the new underpinning for "human rights" discourse in Canada.
Blazingcatfur uncovered this document hiding in plain sight on the Ontario Human Rights Commission website, one citing neo-Marxist sources without even a "got a problem with that?"

Well....the Ontario Human Rights Commission isn't alone in basing its theories of human rights on the ideas that brought us the of the Cultural Revolution in China, the engineered famine that murdered hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and the gulag.

Some of the people who helped launch Barack Obama's political career hold similar views.

Dr. Sanity has a great link to a piece by Sol Stern in City Journal that is a must read about the Marxist views still animating former Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers, an Obama supporter who seems like a white version of the disgusting Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Stern writes:

A Chicago native son, Ayers first went into combat with his Weatherman comrades during the “Days of Rage” in 1969, smashing storefront windows along the city’s Magnificent Mile and assaulting police officers and city officials. Chicago’s mayor at the time was the Democratic boss of bosses, Richard J. Daley. The city’s current mayor, Richard M. Daley, has employed Ayers as a teacher trainer for the public schools and consulted him on the city’s education-reform plans. Obama’s supporters can reasonably ask: If Daley fils can forgive Ayers for his past violence, why should Obama’s less consequential contacts with Ayers be a political disqualification? It’s hard to disagree. Chicago’s liberals have chosen to define deviancy down in Ayers’s case, and Obama can’t be blamed for that.

What he can be blamed for is not acknowledging that his neighbor has a political agenda that, if successful, would make it impossible to lift academic achievement for disadvantaged children. As I have shown elsewhere in City Journal, Ayers’s politics have hardly changed since his Weatherman days. He still boasts about working full-time to bring down American capitalism and imperialism. This time, however, he does it from his tenured perch as Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Instead of planting bombs in public buildings, Ayers now works to indoctrinate America’s future teachers in the revolutionary cause, urging them to pass on the lessons to their public school students.

Dr. Sanity adds her diagnosis:

Progressing from education to indoctrination, postmodernism has ushered in an age of educational nihilism that seeks to destroy the minds of the next generation of Americans. The good news is that the biggest impediment to their grandiose plans is that they earlier suceeded in destroying their own minds on the bullshit they now force-feed the children of today.

What is outrageous is that anyone--anyone who is capable of thinking anyway--could take postmodern, brain-damaged and unapologetically violent collectivists like Ayers seriously, let alone grant him the authority to teach children of any age.

That a major Presidential candidate does is extremely alarming.