Jonathan Kay, National Post Published: Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Read the whole thing.Jerry Seinfeld: Hello? Who is this? Donna Chang? Oh, I'm sorry, I must have dialed the wrong number.
Elaine: Benes Donna Chang?Jerry: Should have talked to her. I love Chinese women.
Elaine: Isn't that a little racist?
Jerry: If I like their race, how can that be racist?
-- Seinfeld Episode #90, The Chinese Woman, Oct. 13, 1994.
Great question, Jerry. And I know exactly the guy who can answer it: Pierre Deschamps. On Friday, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (HRT) adjudicator became the first jurist in recorded human history to convict someone of racial discrimination for praising visible minorities.
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