This is your MUST READ of the day.
Victor Davis Hanson says: With hate speech, it’s the perceived ideology of the perpetrator that matters most.
Correct! Facts are irrelevant!
"When do insensitive words destroy reputations? It all depends."
"So how do we sort out all these slurs and the contradictory consequences that follow them?
Apparently,
racist, sexist, or homophobic words themselves do not necessarily earn
any rebuke. Nor is the race or gender of the speaker always a clue to
the degree of outrage that follows."
"Instead, the perceived
ideology of the perpetrator is what matters most...In short, we are dealing not with actual word crimes, but with supposed thought crimes."
"The liberal media and popular culture have become our self-appointed
thought police. Politics determines whether hate speech is a reflection
of real hate or just an inadvertent slip, a risqué joke, or an anguished
reaction to years of oppression."
"The crime is not hate speech, but hate thought — a state of mind that
apparently only self-appointed liberal referees can detect."
