Posted on 03/22/2014 7:50:34 AM PDT by Publius804
Rik Torfs, rector of the University of Leuven, and Jogchum Vrielink, coordinator of the Centre for Discrimination Law at the University of Leuven, pass along a guest post — quoted below — about a new Belgian law that provides (Vrielink’s translation):
Penalization of Sexism
For the purposes of this Act, the concept of sexism will be understood to mean any gesture or act that, in the circumstances of Article 444 of the Penal Code,* is evidently intended to express contempt for a person because of his gender, or that regards them as inferior, or reduces them to their sexual dimension, and which has the effect of violating someone’s dignity....
...Vrielink reports that the law will indeed cover not just face-to-face insults, but also things said about people in print or in other forms of mass communications. Thus, I infer, it would be a crime to publish newspaper articles or blog posts that say a politician, journalist, criminal, or whoever else is inferior because of his or her gender, or intentionally show contempt for the person because of his or her gender, or “reduce them to their sexual dimension,” and which has the effect of violating someone’s dignity.
Moreover, this might apply not just to statements about particular people, but also to statements about men or women generally — e.g., that men or women are biologically (or even just as a matter of current cultural reality) inferior to the other sex in some ways — or about particular subgroups of men or women.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
“The shopkeepers and townspeople were remarkably the nastiest in all the European towns and cities we visited.”
That may be in French speaking Brussels and home of the EU. I didn’t find that to be the case in other areas of Belgium when I stay there for months at a time.
But you are right, their pacifism and political correctness will be the end of them. Antwerp had a Muslim mayor or council member who said his first allegiance is to Islam.
We were In Bruges They were pissed we were there. Big catholic celebration.
They make it up as they go along like libs do. The Muslims don’t
“Isn’t “penal code” sexist?”
No, that would be “penile code.” Same thing with “penile institution.”
It will be fun to watch the Left explain why the exact same phrase is vile sexism when uttered by a white male and a protected form of cultural expression when uttered by a Muslim.
Old Europe just legislatimg itself into extinction.
Good riddance.
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