Scotland’s sweeping new ‘hate crime’ law, designed to protect a wide range of individuals (except women) from hatred, came into effect on Monday.
The Hate Crime and Public Order Act, under which police have even been told to target ‘hateful’ comedians, has received criticism from almost all quarters of Britain’s political society. Even The Guardian insisted that officials “should not stymie public debate,” despite noting that the law might well be “well intentioned.”
JK Rowling has challenged Scotland’s police to arrest her under the SNP’s new hate crime laws after stating that a series of high-profile trans women are men.
The Harry Potter author, who lives in Edinburgh, tweeted: “Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.
Like other western countries, Canada isn’t immune to “cancel culture,” a disturbing sign of the times. The term itself may be contemporary but cancel culture’s unholy mix of defamation, intimidation and threats is anything but new. Variations on this practice date back millennia, with Jews often the prime target.
Amid rampant antisemitism and the current tyranny of cancel culture run amok, the anti-Israel camp is leading the charge in trying to silence the voices of Jews. Sadly, they’re succeeding far too often as organizations and institutions capitulate to pressure from those seeking to cancel Jews.
Some kinds of hate are less worthy than others in Canada. Our schools, governments and even human rights commissions openly abuse Whites, both children and adults. Only rarely does it merit attention from the media as the Bilkszto case did. Typically there are no repercussions for discriminating against Whites, the DEI huckster in the Bilkszto case is still in business.
“Nobody from TDSB interjected to defend Bilkszto and stop the DEI trainers from berating a staff member…. Bilkszto was given a talking-to by his higher-ups about his ‘male white privilege’ …. Instead of defending him, they berated him further.”https://t.co/ocsEizf9FW
— Jeff Wells (@JeffWellsRigInt) July 21, 2023
About 70 percent of Canadian youth have been exposed to online hate, says a Statistics Canada report released the day after the Liberal government tabled its Online Harms Act aimed at the problem. The alarmingly high number suggests Bill C-63 has arrived just in time to address a widespread problem, but a closer look at the StatCan survey questions tells another story.
“Hate” is in the eye of the beholder. Survey participants were given no guidance on what “hate” means, and sociologist David Haskell says young people are increasingly taught to perceive hate in comments previously considered offensive, but not truly harmful or “hateful.”
“There is lots of evidence coming from current psychological research showing that educational environments are ’training’ students to experience a phenomenon that does not exist in objective reality,” Mr. Haskell, an associate professor in the faculty of Liberal Arts at Wilfrid Laurier University, told The Epoch Times via email.
The Liberal government’s newly tabled Online Harms Bill will, if passed, allow people to report others to a provincial court judge out of fear that they may commit a hate crime in the future. As well, investigators will be allowed to enter people’s workplace without a warrant and demand access to records, and in some cases, people can file anonymous complaints alleging “hate speech.”
These are just some of the many red flags lawyers have identified in Bill C-63 since it was tabled before the House of Commons on Feb. 26.
It’s a cunning move. You have to grant the Trudeau government that much. After years of muddling through consultations and revisions and dogs’ breakfasts, the online harms act was tabled in the House of Commons this week, casting a wide net in an effort to regulate social media platforms, live-streaming services and user-uploaded “adult” content. It also creates a stand-alone hate crimes law, all in one go.
The B.C. Prosecution Service (BCPS) has revised its hate crimes policy to expand the definition of what constitutes hate-motivated offences in the province.
In a media statement released on Feb. 16, the prosecution service said the definition of hate crimes now includes, among other prohibited acts, “hate propaganda offences” such as “advocating or promoting genocide,” “public incitement of hatred,” and “wilful promotion of antisemitism.”
People who live in Canadian cities that have high rates of hate crimes(opens in a new tab) were less likely to report positive physical and mental health compared with those in other parts of the country, according to Statistics Canada.
In a recent study released Thursday, Statistics Canada said it found that fewer Canadians (46 per cent) in these areas that saw more hate crimes reported “excellent or very good mental health” compared with those living in other parts of the country (50 per cent).
It defined a hate crime as “a criminal violation motivated by hate.”
Crappy article that fails to offer stats on the actual number or ethnic/religious background of victims.
Typically the Jewish faith leads the hate crime hit parade by a wide margin. Someone likely figured that fact to be “controversial” and left identifying data out lest they offend their Hamas supporting viewers.
Recall that reporting on the latest available national hate crime stats deliberately avoided mentioning that crimes against Christians soared thanks to the Liberal party unleashing a wave of Fake Grave Hysteria resulting in arsons and vandalism against over a hundred churches.
Just imagine if this wasn’t a church (or even a synagogue). Every single Liberal politician from A to Trudeau would be out clutching their pearls and yammering on about hate and phobia to try to get votes.
But because it’s a church? Absolute crickets from all of them. https://t.co/b8VdSScNXH
— Ari Goldkind (@AriGoldkind) February 12, 2024
Sparking intense criticism from conservatives, the left-leaning majority of the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling for the extension of the EU crime list to include hate speech and hate crimes, which would allow the European Commission to introduce binding minimum penalties for all member states.
The vote, that took place on Thursday, January 18th, passed with 397 for and 121 against, with only 26 abstentions—the latter mainly coming from a handful of dissident leftists concerned that the law may be used to silence anti-Israel voices. As always, only the two conservative blocs, ECR and ID, voted against it while all leftist parties and the center-right EPP supported the report.
The letter was sent to a family who had moved to west Wales and referred to them as ‘low life’
A hate crime against a family from the Midlands is being investigated by a Welsh police force after a poison pen letter attacking their “hideous, vomit-inducing” Brummie accents was left outside their home.
The vitriolic handwritten note was posted after the family moved 120 miles from the Midlands to a sought-after street in the seaside town of Aberystwyth, west Wales.
So much hate out there. So much hurt out there.
Which are not the same thing. The law can’t prevent anyone from saying hurtful things, words that cut to the bone, and that is how it must be in a democracy that enshrines free speech. But a lot easier said when the invective isn’t aimed at you. When it is targeted, instead, at gays and Muslims and, most commonly over these past many weeks since the massacre raids by Hamas into Israel, at Jews.
One victim suffered minor injuries, police said. In an earlier statement, the National Council of Canadian Muslims provided more details about what happened in the mosque.
The organization reported that the alleged attacker also tried to smash through the windows and kick and strike worshippers. According to the NCCM, the attacker also uttered a number of Islamophobic slurs and threats, including about Muslim terrorists, “how he was there to ‘finish the job’ and how he was Israeli.”
Police identified the suspect as 28-year-old Chandler Marshall of Toronto.
The Department of Justice and FBI pride themselves on being the top federal agencies to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators of hate crimes. Their zeal for tracking down racists and targeting Americans based on fabricated white supremacy allegations apparently stops, however, when it comes to classifying the type of anti-white crimes that occurred at Covenant School earlier this year.
On March 27, 2023, Audrey Hale, a woman masquerading as a man, shot and killed three children and three staff at a Christian grade school before local police took her out.
Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) Chair Bernie Farber said it is unequipped to document pro-Hamas sentiments increasing in Canada.
What an ass.
As the war in the Middle East continues, and rallies across Canada attract large crowds, Jewish organizations are reminding communities to stay vigilant.
On Friday, Toronto Police Service charged a young man and two teenage boys in connection with a hate crime investigation at a Jewish high school. Later that day, a rabbi’s home in B.C. was reportedly egged and defaced with a Nazi symbol.
