Scotland Criminalizes Free Speech

What the hell is going on in the British Isles?

Beege Wellborn digests the new law:

2. Definitions

Police Scotland will record all hate crimes and hate incidents in terms of the following definitions:

Hate Incident - Any incident which is perceived by the victim or any other person, to be motivated (wholly or partly) by malice and ill-will towards a social group but which does not constitute a criminal offence (non-crime incident).

While it is accepted that not every hate report will amount to criminality, officers are required to take preventative and protective measures even when a non-criminal offence is apparent. Seemingly low level or minor events may in fact have a significant impact on the victim. Crime type alone does not necessarily dictate impact or consequences of the action. Repeated targeting of a person, whether by the same perpetrator or not, can lead to what is known as the 'drip drip' effect i.e. although seemingly minor incidents, the repeated nature could affect the person's ability to cope. Each individual will be affected differently.

In other words: You're not allowed to say that men are men.

And you're certainly not allowed to question the UK's importation of tens of thousands of foreigners every year!

Hate Crime - A hate crime is any crime which is perceived by the victim or any other person, to be motivated (wholly or partly) by malice and ill-will towards a social group.

There are currently five social groups protected under hate crime legislation:

Disability or presumed disability (any disability including physical disability, learning disability and mental health).

Race or presumed race (any racial group, ethnic background or national origin, including countries within the UK and Gypsy / Traveller groups).

Religion or presumed religion (any religious group, including those who have no faith).

Sexual orientation or presumed sexual orientation (sexual orientation towards persons of the same sex or of the opposite sex or towards both).

Transgender identity or presumed transgender identity (defined as transvestism, transsexualisms, intersexuality or having by virtue of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (c7), changed gender and any other gender identity that is not standard male or female gender identity. This refers to a whole range of people who find their gender identity or gender expression differs in some way, from the gender assumptions made by others about them when they were born).

Of course. You know what's missing from that list? Actual sex, as opposed to fake "gender identity."

That's to allow transgenders to continue throwing hate at actual women.

Controversially, the protected characteristics in the act do not include sex itself, an omission criticised by some feminist groups.

"This new law leaves women unprotected from hate crime," the Scottish National Party MP Joanna Cherry KC told me.

It would, she predicted, "be weaponised by trans rights activists to try to silence, and worse still, criminalise women who do not share their beliefs."

Indeed, the Scottish police are now training cops with a scenario defaming J.K. Rowling. And they specifically name a hypothetical person named "Jo" -- J.K. Rowling's first name is Joanna, and she goes by Jo -- as someone who hates trans people and wants to "send them to gas chambers" and who will soon be sent to prison.

The Telegraph:

Scottish police have been accused of targeting JK Rowling by inventing a fictional character called "Jo" who thinks that sex is binary and bizarrely calls for transgender people to be sent to gas chambers.

At an official Police Scotland hate crime event, attendees were presented with a "scenario" in which Jo is described as a passionate gender-critical campaigner who, like Rowling, believes people cannot change sex and has a large social media following.

Women's groups claimed the character was a thinly veiled parody of the Harry Potter author, whose Christian name is Joanne and is called Jo by her friends, and fuelled unfounded conspiracies that there was a link between gender-critical beliefs and Nazism.

David Strom comments:

Gender critical. Famous. Large social media following. Named "Jo." 14 million followers. All describe JK Rowling.

Across the Irish Sea: The former Irish PM got woke and went broke. Politically speaking, of course. I'm sure The Regime will stuff money into his pockets for acting as such a loyal Regime Agent.

As mentioned yesterday, he resigned his position after a huge repudiation by the public of his proposed constitutional amendments to wokify the definition of a family and eliminate the words "mother" and "woman" from the constitution.

Varadkar acknowledged this when he said: "There are a lot of people who got this wrong, and I am certainly one of them."

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Despite his conservative outlook in his early career, being openly pro-life and anti-gay-marriage, Varadkar transformed into the wokest and most progressive prime minister in Europe.

I was wondering how someone leading a party which the media calls "center-right" turns out to be so woke. Apparently he "evolved in office," like Liz Cheney.

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Shortly after clinching the top job, Varadkar was featured on the cover of Time with the heading "An Island at the Center of the World."

Praising Ireland's globalism, the magazine lauded him for his recent coming out of the closet and Indian background -- his father hails from Mumbai.

Wait -- I thought praising people for their inherent attributes like race was wrong.

Have I been misled?

If he wasn't jogging in brightly colored socks with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in central Dublin, he was marching at pride parades or jumping on the latest liberal bandwagon such as attacking Donald Trump.

(Ironic since the shock referendum defeat was basically Ireland's Trump moment.)

He's recently been very outspoken against Israel, referring to the country's bombardment of Gaza as a "catastrophe" in front of President Biden at a St. Patrick's Day reception in the White House.

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His obsession with displaying trendy, progressive positions to an international audience ultimately cost him electoral advantages domestically, as his party's base still remains nominally conservative.

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Varadkar also grew a reputation for excessive partying, including during COVID restrictions when he jetted off to the United Kingdom to attend a music festival despite such events being banned in Ireland on health grounds.

Gee whiz I never saw that one coming.

In recent months, immigration has skyrocketed in Ireland with several high-profile incidents such as the stabbing of three children by an Algerian migrant leading to riots in the middle of Dublin.

Varadkar displayed a level of tone deafness that showed the opposite of leadership by attacking the rioters and other concerned citizens as "far right," failing to bring the nation together.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:14 PM

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