Posted on 05/14/2023 1:52:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The public’s hatred of racial, sexual, and religious minorities is so out of control that it imperils our democracy. At least, that’s what influential leaders from Joe Biden and Barack Obama to former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden and California Governor Gavin Newsom want us to believe.
(Article by Michael Shellenberger republished from Public.Substack.com)
Last week Newsom announced a state initiative for citizens to report disfavored speech (non-criminal “hate incidents”) they see online:
California’s “Civil Rights Department” (CRD) invites citizens to speculate about the motive of the “perpetrator.”
In a statement, Newsom’s office said the legislation was “in direct response to the rise in reported hate crimes in California, which in recent years, reached their highest levels since 2001 – jumping almost 33% from 2020 to 2021.”
Indeed, criminal complaints of hate crimes rose significantly, not just 33% between 2020 and 2021 but also 80% from 2012 to 2021, according to California state data.
But convictions of hate crimes have been flat. In 2012 there were 107 hate crime convictions in California. In 2021, there were 109, according to the same data.
It’s possible that hate crimes really did rise by 80%, and juries decided not to give prosecutors convictions. In San Fransicko, I assemble a large body of evidence to show California residents have become more tolerant of crime.
But it’s also possible that convictions stayed the same because there was no increase in prosecutable hate crimes. And it may be that Californian prosecutors simply labeled more crimes as “hate” crimes because they were primed to do so by the media’s 700% – 1,000% increased focus on racism between 2011 and 2020.
(Excerpt) Read more at citizens.news ...
Churchill was right.
Will this apply if the “hate speech” is in Spanish or Chinese or any other non-English language?
Didn’t think so.
May I remind all here:
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
- William J. Casey, CIA Director (1981)
Their contrived “hate crime” is a hate crime in itself. And much more damaging.
Not implying my agreement with all of his statements and actions but this was John F. Kennedy on April 27, 1961 to the newspaper publishers convention:
The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings.
We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.
Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions.
Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment.
That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know.
Denial of religious accommodations?
“You must allow us to use your church for our purposes even if we practice what your Bible calls abominations and we worship Satan. “
Control the people /shiny side out
I don’t ask the question rhetorically.
Listened to a group of Mexican employees this AM making nasty remarks about the clientele..in Spanish.
Funny how they don’t think anyone understands them.
If you know, you know. ;O)
Never let a crisis go to waste. If you don’t have one at the moment, create one.
Yes it is.
But I have to ask...will it be a Hate Crime to call Gavin Newsom “stupid”?
Or can we resort to a Truth defense?
Or even express upset with the 9/11 terrorists?
Will that be prosecuted as “Islamophobia”?
The “hate crisis” is that they hate us.
Gullivers Travels!
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