MISSING THE TARGET

It is vital to view issues in perspective, Mark Steyn so obviously does. Many of us waste our time arguing for a position that is clearly not the true 'front' of the battle.

He correctly identify's that in the case of 'our' Australian Human Rights Commission, the battle is not between whatever issue the AHRC deems unacceptable but the fact that this 'commission' exists in the first place:

The likes of [Race Discrimination] commissar Soutphommasane are not interested in a debate with you; they’re interested in eliminating you from the debate, banishing you from public discourse, and shrivelling that discourse to the ever tighter bounds of a state ideology.