This is why the concept of “hate speech” is dangerous and should be abandoned. Anything, literally anything at all can feel hateful to somebody. How do you prevent those who are offended by the very fact that you are speaking from rising to have power over you?
And the same goes for the concept of hate crime that is being grievously overused.
A great post on the ridiculous anti-pornography measure proposed in South Carolina.
Wikileaks is a Russian tool. Color me the least surprised that I’ve ever been.
Kenan Malik is brilliant as usual on multiculturalism and integration.
Only in America: “I regularly diagnose people with mental illnesses. I am myself diagnosed with a mental illness.” And I regularly give people failing grades for their incapacity to speak Spanish. I myself don’t speak a word of it, so I’m a total expert on the matter.
A modern-day Gaugin but without the talent.
A Dem Senator finally speaks out against the criminal over prescription of opioids that is driving the heroin epidemic, and the media go into overdrive trying to discredit him. Here is one example and here is another. The servility to drug pushers is pathetic.
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