{"id":1356,"date":"2023-06-26T14:42:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T14:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/26\/nat-hentoff-on-hate-crime-laws\/"},"modified":"2023-06-26T14:42:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T14:42:30","slug":"nat-hentoff-on-hate-crime-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/26\/nat-hentoff-on-hate-crime-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Nat Hentoff on ‘Hate Crime’ Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

An oldie but a goodie<\/span><\/a> less than six minutes long by the late,  great Nat Hentoff, civil libertarian.*  We of the Coalition of the Sane and Reasonable need to punch back hard against the willfully self-enstupidated wokesters who confuse dissent with hate. As Hentoff points out, 'hate crime' is thought crime<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here<\/a> is a recent example of what we are up against:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cUnder the proposed statute, \u2018intimidate and harass\u2019 can mean whatever the victim, or the authorities, want them to mean. The focus is on how the victim feels rather than on a clearly defined criminal act. This is a ridiculously vague and subjective standard,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe absence of intent makes no difference under this law. You are still guilty of the crime because the victim felt uncomfortable.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe bill will lead to the prosecution of conservatives, pastors, and parents attending a school board meeting for simply expressing their opposition to the liberal agenda,\u201d Kallman said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The proposed statute is obviously insane and anti-civilizational as any reasonable person will immediately discern. Like it or not we are now in the Age of Feeling.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Let it be noted en passant<\/em> that 'liberal agenda' is not quite the right phrase; 'hard' Left' and 'woke' are more fitting adjectives.  To say it again: don't confuse a classical with a contemporary liberal. The latter slouches toward the Gomorrah of wokery. A pox be upon all who so slouch.<\/span><\/p>\n

Related: The Age of Feeling or the Age of Pussies?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

_____________________<\/span><\/p>\n

*Your humble correspondent first encountered the erudite hipster Hentoff in the pages of Down Beat<\/em> magazine in the mind-'60s. If memory serves, he attended Boston Latin<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An oldie but a goodie less than six minutes long by the late,  great Nat Hentoff, civil libertarian.*  We of the Coalition of the Sane and Reasonable need to punch back hard against the willfully self-enstupidated wokesters who confuse dissent with hate. As Hentoff points out, 'hate crime' is thought crime. Here is a recent … Continue reading “Nat Hentoff on ‘Hate Crime’ Laws”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}