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(Natural News) The general public’s hatred of racial, sexual, and spiritual minorities is so uncontrolled that it imperils our democracy. A minimum of, that’s what influential leaders from Joe Biden and Barack Obama to former Recent Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden and California Governor Gavin Newsom want us to imagine.
(Article by Michael Shellenberger republished from Public.Substack.com)
Last week Newsom announced a state initiative for residents to report disfavored speech (non-criminal “hate incidents”) they see online:
California’s “Civil Rights Department” (CRD) invites residents to take a position in regards to the motive of the “perpetrator.”
In an announcement, Newsom’s office said the laws was “in direct response to the rise in reported hate crimes in California, which in recent times, reached their highest levels since 2001 – jumping almost 33% from 2020 to 2021.”
Indeed, criminal complaints of hate crimes rose significantly, not only 33% between 2020 and 2021 but in addition 80% from 2012 to 2021, based on California state data.
But convictions of hate crimes have been flat. In 2012 there have been 107 hate crime convictions in California. In 2021, there have been 109, based on the identical data.
It’s possible that hate crimes really did rise by 80%, and juries decided not to present prosecutors convictions. In San Fransicko, I assemble a big body of evidence to indicate California residents have develop into more tolerant of crime.
Nevertheless it’s also possible that convictions stayed the identical because there was no increase in prosecutable hate crimes. And it could be that Californian prosecutors simply labeled more crimes as “hate” crimes because they were primed to achieve this by the media’s 700% – 1,000% increased give attention to racism between 2011 and 2020.
Regardless of the case, California’s total variety of hate crime complaints is trivial. There have been just 285 hate crime complaints in California, a state with 39 million people, in 2021. There was an order of magnitude more homicides in California, 2,361, in 2021.
Prejudice still exists in the US. The California church shooting from May 2022 was motivated by political hatred. And the recent mall shooter in Texas can have been motivated by racist ideology.
However the ideologies don’t line up neatly politically. The California church shooter was Taiwanese and motivated by an obscure political grievance. The Texas shooter can have been racist, but he was also Latino. And the recent shooter in Nashville was trans and targeted Christians.
And in lots of instances, the political ideology is plainly secondary to mental illness. That was definitely the case with the psychotic and drug-addicted homeless man from Berkeley who attacked the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco last 12 months. And it can have been the case with the shooters in Texas and Nashville.
In fact, acceptance of racial, religious, and sexual differences has never been higher in recorded human history. Never before have same-sex and mixed-race couples have been more accepted across all Western nations, that are way more tolerant than most other nations worldwide.
Trans persons are celebrated, with a complete reality show dedicated to documenting in celebratory fashion the sexual reassignment surgery and hormone use of a trans girl named Jazz Jennings. And few places are more celebratory of transgenderism than California.
All of which raises an issue. If there’s no evidence that “hate incidents” are rising, abundant evidence that tolerance is rising, and overwhelming evidence that the media created an ethical panic about racism, why are nations and nation-sized states like California urging mass spying and creating blacklists?
Read more at: Public.Substack.com
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