Evan Roberts, president of Blue Bridge Theatre Society has canceled the rental agreement with director Shiraz Higgins after he wanted to charge white men double to attend.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the screening of “Building the Room” at the Roxy Theater in Victoria was canceled because of the director's “prejudicial pricing structure”.
Last week, Higgins caused controversy by proposing that white males pay $20 to attend his film about stand-up comics. After a backlash, Higgins opted to lower the price for “White Cis-Straight Able-Bodied Males” to $15 while others would still pay $10.
Roberts said his society “does not believe in, nor does it practice, any form of a prejudicial pricing structure as proposed by Mr. Higgins” and added that “...BBTS feels it cannot support what it sees as irresponsible actions on the part of its organizer.”
The film screening has now been moved to October 6 at the Victoria Event Center. Its producers are asking people to simply “pay what they can.”
For once, the leftists didn't have their way. What do you think? Sound off in the comments.
The event would have been a federal violation of the law.
British Columbia Human Rights Code [RSBC 1996] CHAPTER 210, Section 8, sub section 1-B. “Discrimination in accommodation, service and facility”.
http://www.bclaws.ca/Recon/document/ID/freeside/00_96210_01#section8
Discrimination in accommodation, service and facility
8 (1) A person must not, without a bona fide and reasonable justification,
(b) discriminate against a person or class of persons regarding any accommodation, service or facility customarily available to the public
because of the race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, religion, marital status, family status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or age of that person or class of persons."
I’m sure he’ll resurface somewhere as an NDP candidate spouting some BS about firsthand experience of being bullied and that he really wants to change the world.
;;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-I think people should be standing in front of a judge (a real judge not a pretend judge or Muslim sharia supporter) facing jail time is what I think.