I would have expected this in California first.
Eventually, sites like Free Republic and several others similar, will be shut down because of ‘Hate Speech Laws’.
Not because they are Constitutional, but because the owners of the sites will not be able to keep them up and running due to the high cost of litigation necessary to fight the Government.....................
We’ve lost to the communists, and this is how they control the masses.
Will they also prosecute anti-Christian and anti-conservative “hate”? I did not think so.
[[“A person is guilty of a hate crime if that person intimidates or harasses another individual; causes bodily injury or severe mental anguish to another individual; uses force or violence on another individual; damages, destroys, or defaces any real, personal, digital, or online property of another individual; or threatens, by word or act, to do any of the above described actions]]
So they are gonna lock up all blm and antifa terrorists then, right?
Hey, no problemo. It’s simple. According to Demoncrats ... I mean Democrats hate speech is any speech that contradicts their narrative.
The sponsors of this bill are deserving of meeting a rubber hose...
Well that is one way to strip people of the second amendment rights.
“...if the person, REGARDLESS OF the existence of any OTHER MOTIVATING FACTORS, intentionally targets the individual or engages in the action based in whole OR IN PART on any of the following actual or perceived characteristics of another individual.”
This makes it a crime to defend yourself against unprovoked aggression, robbery etc. by members of protected groups, a crime, since anything will be contrued as “IN PART”.
On a more general level — since many of the actions listed in the bill are already crimes, these idiots are making it a crime to engage in crime based on the motive, and are usuing subjective standards like “severe mental anguish”. Saying good morning to some flakes might cause them to wet, who knows. Whole thing is ridiculous.
bkmk
We already have this in MN. Just recently passed by the legislature.
Are TDSers all going to be jailed for life? Plus homosexuals whDispute and tear down the Bible and Torah?
The bill specifies that one cannot legally speak against boys showering with women? Plus you cannot legally use the wrong pronoun? Gaystapo!