In Spain, Stating That Migrants Get More Money Than Retirees Is Now a “Hate Crime”

thenewamerican.com ^ | 4/29/2021 | Selwyn Duke

[rktman]

It was back in 2013 that the Supreme Court of Canada stated, astoundingly, that the Truth was not a defense against “hate crime” charges. Now this philosophy may be manifesting itself in Spain, where a populist political party daring to claim that migrants get more government money than retirees is being investigated for “incitement to hatred.”

As Breitbart reports, “Spanish populist party VOX is being investigated over a campaign poster that compares monthly spending on migrant minors to monthly spending on Spanish pensioners.”

“The poster [below], which was launched ahead of the May 4th elections in Madrid, claims ‘A [migrant minor], €4,700 [£4,080/$5,670] per month, your grandmother, a €426 [£370/$514] pension per month’ and shows a picture of an elderly woman and a young man with his face covered by a scarf and wearing a hoodie,” the site continued.

[rktman]

The pain in Spain............... WTH? Coming to a municipality near you soon?

[G Larry]

Ya, and in Colorado if you're guilty of a "hate crime" you will have to give up your guns......

(hate crime = any registered Republican)

[allendale]

As a nation commits cultural suicide, the absurdities abound.

[sauropod]

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[Sacajaweau]

Stop with the hate cr**. Hate is not a crime. Hate is an emotion.

[Leaning Right]

> As a nation commits cultural suicide, the absurdities abound. <

Lenin said: “The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”

I suppose the illegals can say: “The West will give us the rope with which we will hang them.”

[rktman]

Guess you missed the memo. :-}

[MuttTheHoople]

Where’s Francisco Franco when you need him.

[cgbg]

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

(some very smart guy said that once--but he was quickly canceled so we don't know who he was...)

[chopperk]

Not surprised,,,,,,Spain is a nothing.

[Bob434]

Didn’t Spain also give human rights to animals or chimps or something?

[Scrambler Bob]

From Ancient History:

So, if you feel like givin’ me
A lifetime of devotion
I second that emotion

[Steve_Seattle]

The ONLY question should be whether the claim is true. Telling the truth cannot be a crime.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Hate is an emotion."

An obvious point which it should not be necessary to make, but which must be made. And even the presence of "hate" in a crime is not sufficient for it to be declared a "hate crime." A man might kill his wife because he has grown to hate her, but that is not in itself a "hate crime."

It is only a hate crime if the victim is a member of a "protected class" and his or her membership in that class was the primary motive for the crime.

Even then, there seems to be a lot of arbitrariness in the classification of a crime as a hate crime. Only a small fraction of acts of vandalism or arson against Christian churches are classified as hate crimes, but virtually any attack on a mosque would be classified as such.

[I want the USA back]

The bearded ones are watching eagerly. As Spain deteriorates, the burka crowd remembers when they had taken over Spain, and waits patiently for the right time to go in and restore sharia rule.

[SMARTY]

Wasn’t Spain one of the EU countries that welcomed boat people and ‘immigrants’??

Seriously... what were they thinking?

[LordOddsocks]

“A [migrant minor], €4,700 [£4,080/$5,670] per month, your grandmother, a €426 [£370/$514] pension per month”

Even if true it’s comparing two different things - and I assume that’s the underlying issue here.

Should be “a migrant minor v resident minor” and/or “a migrant pensioner (senior) v resident pensioner (senior)”.

Even in the UK the cost to the state of any child’s education alone, comes close to the state pension for any senior.

[ronnie raygun]

This is thier great reset, you get screwed and they hand over your money to the minorities for free