Posted on 05/14/2023 1:52:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The public’s hatred of racial, sexual, and religious minorities is so out of control that it imperils our democracy. At least, that’s what influential leaders from Joe Biden and Barack Obama to former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden and California Governor Gavin Newsom want us to believe.
(Article by Michael Shellenberger republished from Public.Substack.com)
Last week Newsom announced a state initiative for citizens to report disfavored speech (non-criminal “hate incidents”) they see online:
California’s “Civil Rights Department” (CRD) invites citizens to speculate about the motive of the “perpetrator.”
In a statement, Newsom’s office said the legislation was “in direct response to the rise in reported hate crimes in California, which in recent years, reached their highest levels since 2001 – jumping almost 33% from 2020 to 2021.”
Indeed, criminal complaints of hate crimes rose significantly, not just 33% between 2020 and 2021 but also 80% from 2012 to 2021, according to California state data.
But convictions of hate crimes have been flat. In 2012 there were 107 hate crime convictions in California. In 2021, there were 109, according to the same data.
It’s possible that hate crimes really did rise by 80%, and juries decided not to give prosecutors convictions. In San Fransicko, I assemble a large body of evidence to show California residents have become more tolerant of crime.
But it’s also possible that convictions stayed the same because there was no increase in prosecutable hate crimes. And it may be that Californian prosecutors simply labeled more crimes as “hate” crimes because they were primed to do so by the media’s 700% – 1,000% increased focus on racism between 2011 and 2020.
(Excerpt) Read more at citizens.news ...
Christians in California should make the most use of these forms as they are having their religious beliefs labeled as hate - which is hateful.
And cowardly Republicans say nothing.
Division is very lucrative.
No, we will call him "TOOPID" or else "WE TOD DID".
Btw one group organizing pressure campaign against Clarence Thomas is National Women’s Legal Center.
CEO is Fatima Goss Graves—wife of DC US Attorney Matthew Graves. He’s in charge of prosecuting every single January 6 defendant https://t.co/zwUS25YBqJ— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) May 14, 2023
My dad read that to us kids ages ago. I was 6 years old. I still have the hard back copy. Gulliver's Travels A Golden Illustrated Classic, copy right 1962. Beautiful color illustrations. The book is still in excellent condition after all these 61 years.
I used to tell people that the reason for the sharia versus sunni conflict in the Middle East was because one group cuts their egg shell on the big end, and the other on the small end. All that Middle East conflict over a breakfast choice.
Very few picked up on the stories origin…. 😂
I like to think that those of us that do were well read little kids... Thanks Dad! :O)
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