Posted on 01/24/2025 1:04:19 PM PST by karpov
In January 2020, the top law enforcement agency in the state of Oregon launched a "Bias Response Hotline" for residents to report "offensive ‘jokes.’"
Staffed by "trauma-informed operators" and overseen by the Oregon Department of Justice, the hotline, which receives thousands of calls a year, doesn’t just solicit reports of hate crimes and hiring discrimination. It also asks for reports of "bias incidents"—cases of "non-criminal" expression that are motivated, "in part," by prejudice or hate.
Oregonians are encouraged to report their fellow citizens for things like "creating racist images," "mocking someone with a disability," and "sharing offensive ‘jokes’ about someone’s identity." One webpage affiliated with the hotline, which is available in 240 languages, even lists "imitating someone’s cultural norm" as something "we want to hear" about.
It is not entirely clear what the state does with these reports. While the hotline cannot "sanction a bias perpetrator," according to its website, it does share "de-identified data" with the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission, a body that develops "public safety" plans for the state, and connects "survivors" with "resources" like counseling and rent relief.
To find out more, the Washington Free Beacon called the hotline and reported a fictitious incident. Here’s how that conversation went.
Describing himself as a Muslim concerned about the "genocide" in Gaza, this reporter said he felt "targeted" by an Israeli flag on his neighbor's front door, adding that his neighbor had displayed the flag after the two had an awkward exchange about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Within 20 minutes, a hotline operator had logged the display in a "state database," referred to it as a "warning sign," and suggested installing security cameras in case the situation "escalates."
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1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual...........
People should be flooding their hotlines with blurry accounts of situations.
I’m going to report to these commies that Big Mike, Obama’s husband, has been flashing his package at me every time I leave my house. I’ll let you know what the response is. Heh!
“This one time, at band camp...”
Andrew Dice Clay would get the Death Penalty.
Like Python’s Department of Silly Walks or something?
“What’s the name of this act?”
“The ‘Aristocrats’!”
All dem Sven an Ollie jokes just burn me up…..
Call and tell them your neighbor keeps playing Don Rickles audio on loud-speakers.
Rickles insults everybody!
We are really sliding down the slippery slope to naked tyranny, which makes me think it's simply not possible to live with the hard-left plurality in this country for much longer. Either we or they will be suppressed.
When are they going to bring in the block wardens?
Ha! Awaiting the recap.
Big Brother is alive and well.
This is all the RATS have left to do. They don’t run any of the government anymore.
Sadly.
Maybe save 'em for the next stag party.
Did you hear about the Huskie and the duck who went hunting?
The mother of the local quadriplegic kid kept pestering us to let him play baseball with us. After hard thought we found the perfect position where he was right in the center of the action.
When we brought him home all raggedy and spike-punctured his mother was horrified. “Let’s see if you can do better than using him for home base!”
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