We cannot even begin to imagine why anyone would still want to listen to Ann Coulter.
But after canceling her appearance for Tuesday night at the University of Ottawa, Coulter called herself a hate crime victim, and now we’re all listening again.
Coulter was scheduled for her appearance by the Campus Conservatives and was outraged when Francois Houle, the university vice president, e-mailed her and told her to be careful with what she said.
“Promoting hatred against any identifiable group would not only be considered inappropriate, but could in fact lead to criminal charges,” he wrote.
When students created an anti-Coulter Facebook group and began protesting her presence on campus, Coulter canceled the speech herself, apparently over fears for her safety.
After lashing out against Muslims, Canadians, liberals, the LGBT community and whomever else she could blame, she threatened to prepare a human rights complaint and blamed Houle’s e-mail for stirring up the students’ anger.
What can we say? Coulter’s remarks may come from pure narcissism or lack of historical knowledge, but last time we checked, in order to call yourself a victim of a hate crime, there has to be an actual crime. Yet she was given a stage and she took it to extremes again.
Coulter is trying to put herself in a category with people who have been beaten, robbed, harassed or killed for who they are after she received a warning e-mail and faced a group protest.
We’re disgusted by her actions. She has always been a fan of dishing out the hate but can’t seem to take even a little opposition.
One good thing can come from this, though: Hopefully, it will cause more people to turn off the TV when her face appears, and her nasty remarks may, for once, fall on deaf ears.
