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The problem is the slippery slope as things get (re)defined. Terrorism used to mean people who planted bombs or caused mass murder to terrorize a population, t
by mc32 2y ago
The problem is the slippery slope as things get (re)defined.
Terrorism used to mean people who planted bombs or caused mass murder to terrorize a population, today it means something very different. Racism used to mean something very specific, now it can be hurled at someone wanting immigration rules. Hate used to mean something, now it means strong disagreement.
Spying used to be about monitoring external threats, now it means anyone any law enforcement thinks needs monitoring for whatever reason. It’s expanded so much that just about every suspect in anything was “on the radar” but because so many are on such radar, they don’t have the processing power to deal with them.
G.W. and Obama were happy to redefine what torture was. Neither got in trouble and are happy to still work behind the scenes moving political machinery.
- cjbgkagh 2y agoHate crimes now include criminal misogyny and criticism of Israel. So the expansion is already absurd - nothing to stop it from becoming more absurd.
- Der_Einzige 2y agoThe kind of people who claim to be “anti Zionist” are also the kind who want to strengthen hate crime laws. Oops, your progressive attempts to engineer society got used to stifle your own dissent!
- cjbgkagh 2y agoI used to try to make the 'hoisted by your own petard' arguments to no avail. I think it's important to understand that the state allows and in fact in many ways encourages progressive dissent as a tool to curtail civil liberties. Once civil liberties have been dismissed the progressives will no longer be needed and the dissent will no longer be tolerated. It will be a very different world. I think the anti-Israel war-crime protestors found themselves rather surprised when they were no longer treated with kid gloves and treated rather harshly. I think principles are only principles when they have a cost, otherwise they're a fashion, so the the anti-Israel protestors are the progressives I most admire. I'm not brave enough to throw myself against the gears of the machine and have elected to operate in other ways.
- squigz 2y ago> Hate crimes now include criminal misogyny and criticism of Israel. Where?
- cjbgkagh 2y agoEasily googleable so I suggest you do that, I'm not your librarian.