Western Michigan U. Prof Suggests State’s “‘Hate Speech’ Bill Could Criminalize Conservative Opinion”
“Proponents use these laws to silence and financially cripple those who dare to adhere to a different viewpoint and oppose their agenda.”
It could do that? You could make a case that that is the entire point of bills like this.
The College Fix reports:
Professor: Michigan ‘hate speech’ bill could criminalize conservative opinion
A “hate speech” bill making its way through the Michigan legislature would end up muzzling conservative and right-of-center viewpoints, a professor emeritus at Western Michigan University says.
House Bill 4474, already passed by the Democrat-controlled state House of Representatives, would make it a hate crime “to cause someone to ‘feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened,’” according to The Daily Wire.
“Sexual orientation” and “gender identity or expression” are protected categories in the bill, and those who allegedly spark “frightened” feelings in someone in a protected class could face a felony charge with a $10,000 fine … and up to five years in jail.
Interestingly, the term “harassment” is not specifically defined in the bill.
But “gender identity or expression” is defined as “having or being perceived as having a gender-related self-identity or expression whether or not associated with an individual’s assigned sex at birth.”
If the bill passes the Michigan Senate, which also is Democrat-controlled (albeit by a smaller majority), Governor Gretchen Whitmer is expected to sign it into law.
Conservatives are wary of the bill’s implications. Western Michigan U.’s William Wagner (pictured) said “Make no mistake about it. Those advocating for this legislation will wield these policies as a weapon capable of destroying conservative expression or viewpoints grounded in the sacred.”
“One merely needs to look at the scores of cases brought against schools, churches, businesses, and individuals around our country,” Wagner continued. “Proponents use these laws to silence and financially cripple those who dare to adhere to a different viewpoint and oppose their agenda.”
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I’m sure this legislation reads much better in the original German.
Prediction: This idiotic legislation, if signed by Reichsfuehrerin Whitmer, will be quickly hit with one or more lawsuits, injuncted, and tossed on the garbage heap of history where it belongs.
The citizens re-elected her, after having it full-well shoved in their face what a Nazi she was. They had their chance, and they blew it. They can all die happy lampshades for all I give a damn.
Only those who voted for her, I hope.
This is why hate speech should not be legislated against. Any dissenting opinion could be termed hate speech, and so our 1st Amendment rights would be abrogated by such legislation.
Use it.
To often WE really don’t care what the left calls us.
We should make a formal complaint.
They demand adherence to pronouns, OK. Mine is Godschild. Every time they fail to use it, file a grievance.
If you don’t, the one time you accidentally mess up, your fired.
Who said I was:
Cis
Male
White
Happy
Sad
Today?
Have you seen my 23&Me?
How would you know what I did in the bedroom last night?
Do you demand I tell you?
These bills are about getting conservatives to leave the state so they can turn it permablue.