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WaPo Article Calls For Amendment To ‘Ban The Incitement Of Bigotry’
Daily Caller ^ | 10/27/17 | Justin Caruso

Posted on 10/28/2017 5:00:05 AM PDT by LibWhacker

The Washington Post published an article Thursday that called for a constitutional amendment to ban inequality and racist speech.

As part of the publication’s series published Thursday called, “Fix this democracy—now, 38 ideas for repairing our badly broken civic life,” the Post featured author Ibram X. Kendi’s proposal for “A Constitutional Amendment On Equality.”

Kendi writes that the United States needs, “an Anti-Bigotry Amendment that would constitutionalize a critical principle: Group inequity is evidence of discrimination.”

“The amendment would make group inequity illegal and ban the incitement of bigotry, as the incitement of anti-Semitism is banned in Germany. Claims that inequity is evidence of a group’s dysfunction or inferiority would be outlawed. The amendment would establish equality as a human right and inequality as anti-American and anti-human,” he continues, seemingly endorsing a crackdown on free speech.

Kendi is a professor and director of American University’s “Antiracist Research & Policy Center.”

He describes himself as a, “hardcore humanist and softcore vegan.”

“The Anti-Bigotry Amendment would permanently establish a federal agency that investigates inequities and punishes institutional and individual discriminators. This Department of Equity would repair inequities caused by past discrimination. It would be charged with building a nation of equal opportunity where only the diverse materials of merit pave the roadway toward success. This is the only equitable path toward a healthy U.S. democracy,” Kendi also wrote.

Other ideas included in the Post’s 38 ideas were “Celebrate Government,” by Joan Williams, which urged readers to post photos and videos on social media celebrating how great government is.

Another idea was to “End American Arrogance,” by teaching everyone more about the past injustices of America “neuter the concept of American exceptionalism and perhaps temper American arrogance.”


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amendment; bigotry; incitement; liberalfascism; speechcodes
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1 posted on 10/28/2017 5:00:05 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

And best of all, THEY get to pick what’s “bigotry”!


2 posted on 10/28/2017 5:02:18 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: LibWhacker

BIGOTRY is in the eyes of the BEHOLDER.


3 posted on 10/28/2017 5:04:44 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12")
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To: LibWhacker
---“The Anti-Bigotry Amendment would permanently establish a federal agency that investigates inequities and punishes institutional and individual discriminators. This Department of Equity would repair inequities caused by past discrimination. It would be charged with building a nation of equal opportunity where only the diverse materials of merit pave the roadway toward success. This is the only equitable path toward a healthy U.S. democracy,” Kendi also wrote

--George Orwell is turning over in his grave---

4 posted on 10/28/2017 5:06:48 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: LibWhacker

Applied equally, that would ban “rap” music.
However, we both know that their idea of “incitement of bigotry” is just disagreeing with them.


5 posted on 10/28/2017 5:07:14 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: LibWhacker
Since anything can be interpreted as racist, it would effectively ban all speech.

6 posted on 10/28/2017 5:07:21 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: LibWhacker

“a constitutional amendment to ban inequality and racist speech.”

So, Maxine Waters, Frederica Johnson, Barbara Jordan, John Lewis, Clyburn, Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Ni-Tihese Whatever, Luis Gutierrez, Raul Grijalva, et al., et nauseum will be banned?

Hallelujah!


7 posted on 10/28/2017 5:07:38 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: LibWhacker

.......He describes himself as a, “hardcore humanist and softcore vegan.”......

I think he forgot useful idiot.


8 posted on 10/28/2017 5:09:37 AM PDT by Fzob (Let the saving love of Christ be the measure of our lives.)
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To: LibWhacker

No doubt he would have movies and television shows made many years ago heavily censored or banned altogether (like even the “MASH” episode “The General Flipped at Dawn” or even Mel Gibson’s “The Patriot”) because of one group or another taking offence.


9 posted on 10/28/2017 5:10:41 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: LibWhacker

Wow!

Just how did so many ignorant people get into responsible positions?

The right of free speech is not there to protect speech we agree with, but protect speech we may find offensive.

The reason there are few restrictions on “free speech” (and there should be even fewer) is once you allow the government to decide what is and what is not appropriate then you lost free speech altogether.


10 posted on 10/28/2017 5:13:19 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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To: LibWhacker

For students, algebra, trigonometry, and likely most serious science courses would be removed from curriculums.


11 posted on 10/28/2017 5:13:19 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: LibWhacker; SunkenCiv

“Other ideas included in the Post’s 38 ideas were ‘Celebrate Government,’ by Joan Williams, which urged readers to post photos and videos on social media celebrating how great government is.”

See my tagline on that.


12 posted on 10/28/2017 5:16:43 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: LibWhacker

All group inequities would be banned and only merit would count? I say we take him up on it, ban all affirmative action and set aside programs and go to race-neutral, merit based hiring and promotion across the board.


13 posted on 10/28/2017 5:17:27 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: Lou L

Group inequity is evidence of discrimination

The NBA would be required to be 13 pct black. What a hoot


14 posted on 10/28/2017 5:19:15 AM PDT by doosee (Captain, we are approaching a new level of Hell.)
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To: CIB-173RDABN
Just how did so many ignorant people get into responsible positions?

Affirmative Action

15 posted on 10/28/2017 5:19:24 AM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: LibWhacker

Everything I don’t like is bigotry:

asparagus, for example, or not holding the door open for the next person.


16 posted on 10/28/2017 5:23:17 AM PDT by gaijin (Basically Obama lawyers would blatantly make up some totally groundless allegation against a fat cas)
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To: Chainmail

yup...wonder if this guy participated in any BLM protests...


17 posted on 10/28/2017 5:23:23 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: LibWhacker

Never going to happen. Nor should it.


18 posted on 10/28/2017 5:24:23 AM PDT by proud American in Canada ( I appear to have accidentally deleted my tagline. :()
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To: LibWhacker

Is the author Justin Caruso or John Semmens?


19 posted on 10/28/2017 5:25:41 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: BitWielder1

Don’t worry. The ACLU will get right on it.


20 posted on 10/28/2017 5:26:19 AM PDT by BlueYonder
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