I don’t hear people saying “eat your heart out” much anymore, but if Mr. Orwell were around, I’d dropped him an e-mail. The world he made up in 1984 is indeed reality. Words and symbols we don’t like, we ban and/or shroud in politically correct (and often nonsensical) terms. Orwell’s “thoughtcrime” is our “hate crime.” Want to know what I think of hate crime laws? Check this out.
A European Union official is considering banning the swastika. If I have to explain why this is dumb, counterproductive, dangerous and repugnant, you haven’t been reading this blog long enough. Perhaps it isn’t for you.
While I “get” that Europe is not America, we’re not far from it, my friends. What are the implications of banning the Confederate flag, for example, if that were to ever happen?
Important Update (5:53 p.m.): Speaking of “hate crime,” you might be interested in this one. A grand jury in Oregon “declined” to charge a black ball player, who attacked a white man because he’s white and married to a black woman, with a hate crime.
The man who got knocked out is a member of the National Guard, and he was dancing with his wife and celebrating his last night of leave before going back to Iraq when the ignorant ball-playing thugs got in his face. If I’d been on that grand jury…
This is only one case, but let’s be honest. Hate crime laws are designed to protect the sensibilities of blacks and homosexuals, as if they were children, and penalize whites for thinking nasty thoughts, not the other way around. That’s how they were conceived, that’s how they’re carried out. When I first read about this incident, I knew exactly what would happen. Laws for me but not for thee.
If you’re interested in reading more, see Riley discusses suspension of players.
