Depaul University was the site of hate crimes earlier today. Shame. Chicago's hate crime commission will be on this case and arresting college kids for using the "N" word in public, and writing it on walls. Wait, Chicago has a hate crimes unit? Jesus. And what? College students do stupid shit? No...
Getting into trouble for vandalizing and being obnoxious is one thing... but come the hell on. I'd like to take this time to organize a group eye roll...
posted by Ashley @ 9:08 PM
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I've always said that hate crimes legislation puts a tax on bad ideas. Ideas themselves are supposed to be protected. It is not the job of govenrment to encourage or discourage any particular ideology, yet that is what special punishments for graffiti content do.
I agree. I've been in Chicago, and I've been to Depaul... do people really think that's the worst that goes on there? Wasn't Depaul just in the news for rapes? Hmmm...
The news also mentioned Depaul's "anti-affirmative action" bake sale. So? Did those kids do it? Maybe, you say? Isn't that speculation?
I still can't get over this hate crime unit... Aren't all crimes hate crimes?
Only insane liberals could possibly relate the two. An anti-affirmative action bake sale is a clever way to demonstrate the inherent racism and condescension found in affirmative action programs. To think that the organizers of such a thing would later spraypaint swastikas all over campus is absurd.
Lynching and assault and "bashing" (if you mean to strike someone) are physical crimes, whereas expressing an opinion or otherwise speaking words to someone is protected speech.
Graffitti is of course a crime of vandalism, which is the actual crime - not the content of the graffitti.
At least, that's the way it used to be. Hate crime laws change that, and indeed bring us closer to what Nazi Germany was - a country that suppressed thought.
"Not too long ago two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, "We don't know how lucky we are." And the Cuban stopped and said, "How lucky you are! I had someplace to escape to." In that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth." -- Ronald Reagan
Everyone wants to be more like Europe. Yet last week a man went to prison for 3 years for being a holocaust revisionist - just for believing something that most people say isn't correct. And now in Holland, they're about to ban burqas and Muslim head scarfs because they are "oppressive" and "offensive to women"... doesn't matter if you *want* to wear it - you're not allowed to practice your religion there - even if it just means wearing a piece of *clothing*.
So that's why I'd really like to know which opinions should be illegal, and who gets to decide. In America, once we take away the freedom to speak opinions most people find deplorable, we just get closer to the day when we may ban any opinion at all, should we find it expedient.
You live for the little, or big, things that make you happy and proud.
And more times than not, that should outweigh all the day-to-day "buzzing".
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