Excellent stuff David. Thank you. The word ‘hate’ itself has been weaponised and co-opted. It no longer means what most regular people would say it means. In the same way the word ‘safety’ is used to signify that people are incapable of making their own choices, or hearing contrary opinions. ‘Diversity’ is another word for a progressive monoculture. ‘Democracy’ means only choosing identical candidates from within an ever shrinking Overton window, while using the law to remove dissenters. ‘Inclusion’ means exclusion. ‘Protests’ often simply means riots. ‘Ceasefire’ means surrender and so forth. Of course Orwell also explained how the destruction of language is a tool of oppression. But that’s a post (and more) in itself.
Excellent post. I always viewed hate crime laws as double jeopardy. How many times have you seen someone tried where the crime was committed and found not guilty to only have the feds then swoop in and charge the person with a hate crime or a civil rights violation?
Decent people get sucked into the 1st Amendment Free speech argument, because free speech is what the Left decides it is. Like hate speech. To say, "from the river to the sea", you are actually calling for the mass murder of people by driving them into the ocean. Yet that is free speech. Say there are only men and women and if you think you are something else you have a mental disorder, THAT'S hate speech!
I barely gave the idea of "hate" crimes a passing thought until now. I knew the concept flied in the face of the Constitution and the Rights of Man, but had not realized how pernicious the concept is until now. Thank you for this little masterpiece.
"Hate crime" is like the "war on terror". You can't make an emotion illegal; you can't make war on an emotion.
When people in the government feel it necessary to lie about what they are really doing, that should tell us something about what people in the government really are and what they are really doing.
Brilliant essay, David. This is a tremendous weapon that Leftists wield against their political opponents. They have done it for many decades. They fabricate narratives to slander whole classes of good, honest people with false slanderous slurs. They don't think twice about it. They don't care who they attack or hurt or how much damage their lies do to society.
I would like to recommend a couple of resources related to this topic:
Book: In "Hate Crime Hoax," Professor Wilfred Reilly examines over one hundred widely publicized incidents of so-called hate crimes that never actually happened. With a critical eye and attention to detail, Reilly debunks these fabricated incidents—many of them alleged to have happened on college campuses—and explores why so many Americans are driven to fake hate crimes. We're not experiencing an epidemic of hate crimes, Reilly concludes—but we might be experiencing an unprecented epidemic of hate crime hoaxes. Link:
Excellent stuff David. Thank you. The word ‘hate’ itself has been weaponised and co-opted. It no longer means what most regular people would say it means. In the same way the word ‘safety’ is used to signify that people are incapable of making their own choices, or hearing contrary opinions. ‘Diversity’ is another word for a progressive monoculture. ‘Democracy’ means only choosing identical candidates from within an ever shrinking Overton window, while using the law to remove dissenters. ‘Inclusion’ means exclusion. ‘Protests’ often simply means riots. ‘Ceasefire’ means surrender and so forth. Of course Orwell also explained how the destruction of language is a tool of oppression. But that’s a post (and more) in itself.
If we can get people to realize that these word games are being played it will undercut the power of those using them. Glad you like it.
Apparently, Kyle Rittinhouse was supposed to simply allow himself to be murdered.
Excellent post. I always viewed hate crime laws as double jeopardy. How many times have you seen someone tried where the crime was committed and found not guilty to only have the feds then swoop in and charge the person with a hate crime or a civil rights violation?
Decent people get sucked into the 1st Amendment Free speech argument, because free speech is what the Left decides it is. Like hate speech. To say, "from the river to the sea", you are actually calling for the mass murder of people by driving them into the ocean. Yet that is free speech. Say there are only men and women and if you think you are something else you have a mental disorder, THAT'S hate speech!
“It’s okay to be white” is another no no.
Saying “white lives matter” is hate speech, maybe even “all lives matter.”
That phrase should certainly count as hate speech if anything does. Sure shows the double standard. But of course it's not about standards..
I barely gave the idea of "hate" crimes a passing thought until now. I knew the concept flied in the face of the Constitution and the Rights of Man, but had not realized how pernicious the concept is until now. Thank you for this little masterpiece.
You’re welcome.
"Hate crime" is like the "war on terror". You can't make an emotion illegal; you can't make war on an emotion.
When people in the government feel it necessary to lie about what they are really doing, that should tell us something about what people in the government really are and what they are really doing.
Do they think we don’t know, or are they rubbing our noses in it? Some of both?
Good question. Mostly they probably think they are fooling us.
But it's academic anyway. They don't have to care whether we know, because the government regulators have become almost totally unaccountable.
Brilliant essay, David. This is a tremendous weapon that Leftists wield against their political opponents. They have done it for many decades. They fabricate narratives to slander whole classes of good, honest people with false slanderous slurs. They don't think twice about it. They don't care who they attack or hurt or how much damage their lies do to society.
I would like to recommend a couple of resources related to this topic:
Book: In "Hate Crime Hoax," Professor Wilfred Reilly examines over one hundred widely publicized incidents of so-called hate crimes that never actually happened. With a critical eye and attention to detail, Reilly debunks these fabricated incidents—many of them alleged to have happened on college campuses—and explores why so many Americans are driven to fake hate crimes. We're not experiencing an epidemic of hate crimes, Reilly concludes—but we might be experiencing an unprecented epidemic of hate crime hoaxes. Link:
https://www.amazon.com/Hate-Crime-Hoax-Lefts-Campaign/dp/1621577783
Also, I have copied and pasted a list of resources below, but I can't guarantee that the links all still work. Worth a look, though:
HORRIBLE HOAXES:
1. Overview of hate crime hoaxes and other hoaxes: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/leftist-manufactured-hoaxes-covid-climate-race
2. College race hoaxes: https://www.thecollegefix.com/here-are-50-campus-hate-crime-hoaxes-the-college-fix-has-covered-since-2012/
3. Trump hoaxes: https://sharylattkisson.com/2024/01/50-media-mistakes-in-the-trump-era-the-definitive-list/
4. Climate hoaxes: https://clintel.org
5. https://www.ajc.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-harm-done-by-hate-crime-hoaxes-is-all-too-real/74NRYEK2PNGPRBTJGLDOAJYZLY/
6. LIST: https://fakehatecrimes.org
7. Book pdf: https://fakehatecrimes.org/Crying-Wolf-by-Laird-Wilcox.pdf
8. https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/opinion/columns/2020/04/08/williams-manipulation-through-racial-hoaxes/1391131007/
9. Homosexual hate crime hoaxes: https://www.hli.org/resources/hoax-hate-crimes/
10. Muslim hate crime hoaxes: https://www.amarillo.com/story/opinion/columns/2017/09/13/malkin-never-forget-muslim-hate-crime-hoaxes/13037452007/
Keep up the great work!
Wow, that’s a lot of info. Thanks.