badgenome said:
First, I'll only say that you should read Steyn before jumping to any conclusions about the guy. In addition to being a damned amusing writer, he's about as affable and tolerant as it gets without being a braindead multiculturalist, while Krekar is an antagonistic fuckhead who was saying exactly what it sounded like: we're going to outnumber you one day sooner than you think, and then you'll have to do things our way or else. As for hate speech, what exactly constitutes a majority for our purposes? (I think the term "ruling class" doesn't apply at all, as that assumes a certain amount of wealth and political clout, and we're not talking about Rhodesia or South Africa decades ago. A poor white person doesn't benefit from being white, and in many instances due to affirmative action they are actually at a greater disadvantage than a poor minority.) I'm a white male, the lowest man on the political correctness totem pole. But white males haven't been the majority in the US for a long time, if ever they were. For obvious biological reasons, there tends in just about any species to be more females than males unless they socially engineer themselves into a corner like the Chinese have, but political correctness favors women over men - and so would hate speech laws, if we had any of the dreadful things. Also, one can be a member of the majority in the nation as a whole but a minority in their particular neighborhood. Are they entitled to special protections, or aren't they, or are they but only when they're in their neighborhood? It all gets to be pretty silly pretty quickly once you start trying to regulate speech, as if people need to be protected from fucking words to begin with. You seem awfully convinced that it is needed, though, and that such laws help do... something or other, but I don't see one shred of evidence to support that position. It's perfectly legal to run up and down an American street shouting "nigger nigger nigger", yet we don't have any greater epidemic of such behavior than any nation that is saddled with hate speech laws. (It does happen, of course, but it's almost invariably set to a hip hop beat.) In the end I think the best way to end discrimination is simply not to discriminate, and that goes double for the government. "Unequal protection is equal protection" is something straight out of 1984. |
couldnt have said it better