Hate by itself is not illegal, Hurwit said; people are not prosecuted for what they believe.
Good Grief. They aren’t prosecuted for what they believe?
Those bakery owners would heartily disagree, as would the people arrested for saying the rosary outside abortion clinics.
Not to mention people targeted by the IRS, the 1/6 political prisoners, and I could go on and on.
In their minds, at this stage, you are allowed to believe what you want, but are not allowed to communicate it to anyone.
In the next stage, you won’t be allowed to hold an unorthodox thought in your mind either. That will be “ThoughtCrime”, even if not explicitly stated, derived from actions, words, and deeds.
I would agree, but it is dangerous to go this route, as the last 20 years.
They MAKE IT Big Brother, where now we are banned from internet fora for thinking the wrong way.
Nevermind it is disgusting that murder victims, e.g., due to “hatred” for a group, vs say, victims due “only” to hatred for that particular person, or for insurance, or for random thrills, get more justice than the latter.
It is a travesty of justice, period. Never mind we should not be judged as much for reasons, as the ACTION.
But communists are ALL about words, and not action.
Comments?
My only comment is “that is laughable on its face.”
We have plenty of laws against manifestly objective, measurable and physical actions. You cannot introduce “hate” as a modifier to a crime without delving into what a person believes, what his state of mind was when he committed the crime. The very idea of a “hate crime” means you are prosecuting what you think the person believed when they committed the crime.
It’s a ludicrous statement and demonstrably false.