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.”
Even better: the definition changes every day!
Anyone who would advocate the loss of liberty, especially for such spurious nonsense, should be tried for treason
“...He describes himself as a, “hardcore humanist and softcore vegan.”......I think he forgot useful idiot.”
And incipient fascist.
These are the first words of a fascist.
And my tagline, too.
Provisions such as this have been used to install dictatorships throughout the world.
No, silly rabbit! Members of "oppressed groups" are per definitionem unable to be bigoted / to commit "hate speech!"
Regards,
Every time you think they’ve reached the limit of stupidity they turn you into a liar.
Ummm no!
They just said they want to ban the Democrat Party - Priceless!
Well then, all those fate hate crimes would be classified as attempts to incite bigotry.
~Against whites.
When the tide turns in finality towards these people it’s gonna get real ugly.
This would be a next step in leftist fascism.
The leftards motives are so transparent, I don’t see this ever being something serious.
Typical fascist ideas and thoughts from the Compost.
i.e., how to legally jail all conservative, patriotic
Americans.
Talk about scrambled brains...
You say: “For students, algebra, trigonometry, and likely most serious science courses would be removed from curriculums.”
Already being proposed on the grounds that math is a white privilege thing - because whites do better in math that others....
This is the danger of outlawing “Hate Speech”.
Liberals already define their side as love and tolerance, rational and kind, no matter what they do.
This lets them smear all conservatives as stupid, crazy, evil haters.
By liberals’ already established self-defined terms, they are love when they call for death of conservatives while conservative views are by their definition “hate”.
This is why hate speech rules and “let’s just institute niceness” rules should be opposed vehemently - liberals have already defined the terms and the rules to include them and exclude everyone else.
An undisguised attack on the First Amendment.
The Left hates freedom.
Entering an Orwellian nightmare.
Wow. They should consider passing a law hailing the greatness of Africa’s space program.
I wonder what would happen to someone who’s just a poor speller or typist.For example,sometimes I’m know to make reference to “The Religion of Pieces”.
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