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Democrat’s Extremist ‘White Supremacy’ Bill Would Silence Political Speech
In January, Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee introduced the Leading Against White Supremacy Act of 2023. The bill is one of the most radical, unconstitutional pieces of legislation proposed in years.
The Leading Against White Supremacy Act aims to “prevent and prosecute white supremacy inspired hate crime and conspiracy to commit white supremacy inspired hate crime and to amend title 18, United States Code, to expand the scope of hate crimes.”
Under the proposed bill, “A person engages in a white supremacy inspired hate crime when white supremacy ideology has motivated the planning, development, preparation, or perpetration of actions that constituted a crime or were undertaken in furtherance of activity that, if effectuated, would have constituted a crime.”
In other words, Jackson Lee’s legislation would make any crime or an attempt to commit a crime that is arguably “motivated” by white supremacy ideology a hate crime, which would carry with it a harsher penalty than other crimes not motivated by “hate.”
On its own, this provision is extremely problematic. Although ideological views that are truly rooted in white supremacy are undeniably repugnant, Jackson Lee offers no definition of “white supremacy ideology” in the bill, opening the door to wild interpretations that could unjustly increase legal punishments for defendants in court.
Jackson Lee’s legislation doesn’t stop there, however. The most important part of the legislation is its “conspiracy” provision, which would make it illegal to “publish” material that inspires a crime deemed to be motivated by white supremacy — which, again, is not defined by the bill. The legislation specifically lists “social media platforms” as a form of publication.
According to the provisions in Jackson Lee’s bill, if a social media user were to post an article, video, or even just a short message on a website such as Facebook or Twitter, that person could be convicted of committing “a conspiracy to engage in white supremacy inspired hate crime” if someone else consumes that material and then commits a crime motivated by white supremacy.
It doesn’t appear to matter how crazy or mentally ill the person committing the crime is, either. So, under the bill, if a deranged mass shooter allegedly inspired by white supremacy TikTok videos and Facebook posts kills several people, any of the “white supremacy” materials “read, heard, or viewed” by the shooter could make the person who posted those materials guilty of conspiracy.
Some might be tempted to think this would only apply to the most extreme ideological and political views about white supremacy, but recent history has shown that many on the left have a far-reaching, extremely broad understanding of “white supremacy.”
For example, the National Education Association, America’s largest teachers union, claims that although “white supremacy culture” is typically “associated with violence perpetrated by the KKK and other white supremacist groups, it also describes a political ideology and systemic oppression that perpetuates and maintains the social, political, historical and/or industrial white domination.” The NEA further claims, “Organizations that are led by people of color or have a majority of people of color can also demonstrate characteristics of White Supremacy Culture.”
Popular left-wing publications such as The Intercept have suggested that “prominent conservatives” including Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Donald Trump, and Candace Owens propagate white supremacist ideology. Whistleblower documents reveal Google’s “anti-racism” initiative for the company’s employees featured a “White Supremacy Pyramid” that includes both Shapiro and Trump.
In November, ABC News published an article alleging that the “GOP’s white supremacist problems extend beyond Trump.” One columnist for The Hill claimed in November that “Republican officials keep stoking white supremacist tropes.”
Further, a long list of academics including Ruth Colker, a law professor at Ohio State University, has even called America’s founding document “The White Supremacist Constitution.” According to Colker, “The United States Constitution is a document that, during every era, has helped further white supremacy.”
With all of this in mind, it’s not hard to imagine how under the Leading Against White Supremacy Act, a Trump-supporting Republican expressing support for the Constitution on Twitter — a description that fits millions of Americans — could easily be caught up in a charge of “conspiracy to engage in white supremacy inspired hate crime.”
But as nutty as all of this is, Jackson Lee has somehow managed to go even further. Among the relevant kinds of “published material” covered under the Leading Against White Supremacy Act is “hate speech that vilifies or is otherwise directed against any non-White person or group.”
What exactly is “hate speech”? Jackson Lee’s bill doesn’t tell us. Perhaps political commentators writing an article such as this one, which arguably “vilifies” a “non-White person,” could someday find themselves guilty of conspiracy to engage in a white supremacy-inspired hate crime.
The purpose of Jackson Lee’s legislation is not to discourage white supremacy, a noble goal. It’s a blatantly unconstitutional, racist attempt to silence political and social speech.
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Thousands of Californians fleeing to Nevada are upending the fabric of its cities - causing congestion in the streets, straining city services and pricing locals out of homes
Thousands of Californians leaving the Golden State looking to escape the rampant homelessness and high cost of living are landing in neighboring Nevada, overrunning the state's few major cities.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Reno area has seen 25,000 new residents according to reports and is expected to be one of the fastest growing cities in the coming years.
An article published by the Los Angeles Times on Thursday found that the droves of residents are moving to northern Nevada and causing issues with pre-settled residents who are seeing rising prices and traffic troubles.
The former-Californians are searching for the 'perfect elixir — a California bender without the hangover.'
California residents and businesses began moving to the northern Nevada region back in 2014 when Tesla started building a battery pack factory outside Reno.
The Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center has become the world's largest industrial center and covers 166 square miles.
The center is so expansive it is roughly the size of New Orleans, Louisiana.
The biggest appeal for business owners? Massive tax breaks.
Reno's facility also offers companies a quick permitting process, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The business moves and the COVID-19 pandemic spurred a new wave of Californians heading out east and recreating their California lifestyle as a 'technology hub with comfortable communities, economic growth and mountain views — without California's problems.'
'Here, they can retire or work from home or the ski slopes while keeping close ties to the San Francisco Bay Area or Los Angeles,' the LA Times reported.
Along with their move, however, has come the development of luxury apartments and homes, as shopping districts and more amenities.
This has resulted in major issues for native Nevadans. 'Locals are getting priced out of houses and apartments by Californians who can pay higher rents or drop larger down payments,' the LA Times shared.
These issues come as Nevada residents are already struggling with their own issues of homelessness and drug addition.
Additionally, the state continues to see some of the lowest standardized test scores nationwide.
Despite these issues, businesses seem to be doubling down on the state.
In January, Tesla announced it would invest more than $3.5 billion to grow the company's gigafactory. The move will add an estimated 3,000 new jobs.
Tesla was initially granted a $1.3 billion subsidy package to lure the business to Nevada and beat out California offers. Their new factory is 'likely' to qualify a similar advantage.
Notable businesses that have opened operations in Nevada in recent years include companies like Tesla, Panasonic, Apple, Nanotech, Google, and Walmart.
According to a recent Claremont McKenna College Study, aside from New York and Las Vegas, Reno has been the most prominent city to take in the California expats.
The co-developer of the industrial park, Lance Gilman, told the Los Angeles Times he knew the area would be a success due to major trucking routes and cheap land.
'This is the first and only place they can go unless they go clearly hell out in the desert, which is too far,' Gilman said.
The co-developer said a grading permit can be obtained in seven days and a building can be obtained in as little as 30. 'Where in the United States can you do that?' Gilman said.
'It's a giant tax haven,' said Mike Pilcher, president of Northern Nevada Central Labor Council.
The rising cost of living in Nevada does not seem to be deterring the California residents from making the move.
Californians are tired of the state's rampant crime, drug use, and homelessness. In San Francisco, one major open air drug market were blasted by the public for becoming a magnet for crime and other issues.
Residents have also expressed anger over police response times. 'I call the cops; no one comes. There's nothing I can do,' one San Francisco resident told the San Francisco Chronicle.
Down in Southern California, the high cost of living has created an epidemic of homelessness.
In December, newly elected Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass officially declared a state of emergency over the city's homeless crisis.
Bass had sworn to take action on the issue immediately and kept her promise. At the time, she said she was 'using the emergency order is our ability to fast-track things.'
'I will not accept a homelessness crisis that afflicts more than 40,000 individuals and affects every one of us,' the progressive former congresswoman said during her swearing-in.
Earlier this week, Bass officially cleared six homeless encampments as she works with city leaders on her 'Inside Safe' program.
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Far Leftist Grammy Winner
“When Bonnie Raitt won the award for Song of the Year at the 2023 Grammys on Sunday night for her track Just Like That,” The Daily Mail reports this week, “some were shocked that the accolade went to the 73-year-old folk singer - over huge artists like Taylor Swift, Lizzo, Harry Styles, Beyonce and Adele, who were also nominated for the category.”
Much less shocking, given Raitt’s social and political milieu, is this rock and roller’s propaganda ministrations for the only regime in the modern history of the Western Hemisphere to criminalize rock & roll and herd its practitioners and fans into forced-labor camps.
You see, amigos: Back in March of 1999, Bonnie Raitt was among the top acts of a celebrity-studded propaganda extravaganza for Stalinist Cuba titled “Music Bridges Over Troubled Waters." During her visit to the Castro-Family-Fiefdom, Raitt stopped hyperventilating just long enough to compose a song in Fidel Castro's honor titled, "Cuba Is Way Too Cool!" Among the lyrics: "It's just a happy little island!" and "Big bad wolf (the U.S.) you look the FOOL!"
With Woody Harrelson gyrating drunkenly beside her, the rapidly oxidizing chanteuse, she of the big red hair and the famous gray roots, rasped out her ditty at Havana's Karl Marx theater. "Rock Against Freedom" sounds much better to me. A beaming, waving Jimmy Buffet came on after Bonnie.
Then came Joane Osborne. R.E.M's Peter Buck, former Police’s Andy Summers and Stuart Copeland all made the groovy scene and took the stage in turn. In between crooning and strumming, these cheeky free-spirits all dutifully recited their propaganda scripts against the U.S. "embargo."
Against South Africa a decade earlier, of course, their script called FOR an embargo.
A crowd of 5000 Cubans huddled before them, swaying and clapping. All were Cuban Communist Party members and their families. Let's step back and contemplate the scene: here's these troubadours for human rights, here's the same smarmy gang who boycotted South Africa ("I Ain't Gonna Play Sun City!" thundered Bonnie Raitt herself alongside Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Darryl Hall and scores of similar political imbeciles on the 1985 recording titled, "Artists United Against Apartheid.")
But she'll GLADLY play in Havana's Karl Marx theater and bask in the applause of an audience pledging proud fealty to the most murderous ideology in human history. Indeed she'll happily compose a song in their honor—and all on the house!
Here's Bonnie and other shrill foes of capital punishment happily crooning lovesongs to card-carrying members (literally!) of an ideology whose minions shot, starved, strangled, drowned, hacked and worked to death 100 million human beings in the 20th century. According to the late researcher Dr. Armando Lago, many in Bonnie and Jimmy's very audience had a hand in 110,000 of these murders. Here's these do-gooders playing (free-of-charge) because of an invitation from Stalinists!
These musical hipsters composed gushy odes to coolness and happiness of a nation with the highest (youth) emigration, incarceration and suicide rates on the face of the globe.
When Cuba's suicide rate reached 24 per thousand in 1986—making it double Latin America's average, making it triple Cuba's pre-Castro rate, making Cuban women the most suicidal in the world, making death by suicide the primary cause of death for Cubans aged 15-48—at that point the Cuban government ceased publishing the statistics on the self-slaughter. The figures became state secrets. The implications horrified even the Castroites.
But apparently not Diane Sawyer or Barbara Walters. When in his charming presence, neither of these feminists could keep from bursting into those toothy smiles and throwing their arms around the man who drove more women to end their lives than anyone in the world.
Cuba also has the world's highest (or third highest, depending on the source) abortion rate. I say there's a relationship with the suicide rate. They both smack of hopelessness and despair.
In Castroland, Jimmy Buffet and Bonnie Raitt proudly authored paeans to the coolness and happiness of a place that also criminalized Beatles' and Rolling Stones' records—where long hair, blue jeans, and/or effeminate behavior got thousands of youths yanked off the streets by secret police and dumped in concentration camps with "Work Will Make Men Out of You," in bold letters above the gate and with machine gunners posted on the watchtowers. The initials for these camps were UMAP, not GULAG. But the conditions were identical.
Much "wasting away" within their barbed wire, Mr Buffet. But not from Margaritas. Slave labor, disease, malnutrition, beatings, torture and hunger strikes caused the "wasting way." Stepping on pop-tops is no fun, I agree, Mr Buffet. But neither is being bludgeoned to death with the blunt end of bayonets, a pastime much indulged by your charming Castroite hosts. Armando Valladares provides harrowing details of scores of such deaths in his “Against All Hope.”
The blight is also known as Castroism, and is also known as inspiration for happy little jingles by Bonnie Raitt.
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Christian nurse is 'bullied and suspended from NHS course' by 'woke' health chiefs after saying 'being white doesn't make you racist'
A Christian nurse was left with 'crippling anxiety' after she was 'bullied' by 'woke' NHS chiefs for saying that being white doesn't make you racist.
Amy Gallagher, 34, a mental health nurse from Orpington, Kent, was on a forensic psychology course training to be a psychotherapist at the Portman clinic, which is part of The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.
In an exclusive interview with MailOnline Amy has revealed how NHS bosses caused her 'crippling anxiety' after she challenged their 'racist' and 'offensive' views in lectures she was forced to attend.
Lecturers at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust told her 'whites don't understand the world' and 'Christianity is responsible for racism because it's European' in a series of 'politically biased' talks.
One of the Tavistock's seminars was even called 'Whiteness — a problem for our time' and included a description on the Trust's website that 'the problem of racism is a problem of whiteness'.
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust was taken to court after Keira Bell, a 23-year-old who began taking puberty blockers aged 16, claimed she was treated like a 'guinea pig' at the clinic.
Ms Bell was injected with testosterone at 17 and had a mastectomy aged 20 before 'detransitioning'. She said doctors did not carry out a proper psychiatric assessment and should have challenged her more over her decision to transition to a male.
After a major High Court battle, judges ruled children under 16 are unlikely to be able to give 'informed consent' to take puberty blockers.
The Trust's Gender Identity Development Service is now being disbanded after a damning independent review.
When Amy challenged these controversial views she was 'bullied' by staff and suspended from the course, pending an investigation into whether she is safe to work with patients.
Almost a year later, no investigation has taken place. It means her dream of becoming a psychotherapist is hanging by a thread.
As if that wasn't enough, a course lecturer also tried to get her banned from her day job as a practising mental health nurse.
However, the 34-year-old is fighting back. Amy is suing the Tavistock for religious and racial discrimination.
It's a case that may be one of the first trials of wokeness. However, it's not the first time the Tavistock Trust has faced scrutiny.
The same trust faced court for giving children puberty-blocking drugs at their Gender Identity Development Service, which is being disbanded after a damning independent review.
Speaking about her treatment by The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust Amy told MailOnline: 'I never attacked anyone. 'I just said we need to have a different viewpoint.
'To be made to feel like I have done something awful, it's been really difficult.
'There's nothing wrong with what I have said. 'I want some justice for what's been done to me. It's had an affect on my mental health. 'I had anxiety. It's been really hard.'
Amy said she had suffered from 'back pain' and 'sleepless nights' as a result.
One of the ideas lecturers presented as 'fact' was Critical Race Theory, a controversial idea that rejects belief of meritocracy or colour blindness in terms of race and says racism is systemic and socially constructed.
Amy disagreed with the controversial theory that many scholars have also criticised.
She said Critical Race Theory was a 'suspect' and 'racist' idea that was 'offensive to all races'.
She said: 'Racism against any race should be wrong. 'Critical Race Theory will only turn itself around when enough people stand up to it.
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Australia: Not everything should be a culture war, but the left started it
Last Sunday, Anthony Albanese told an audience at Labor-aligned think tank the Chifley Research Centre that people with questions about the Voice are “trying to start a culture war”.
Wars are bad, and culture wars are boring. Nobody wants to be constantly at war. Must we frame this latest issue of public policy in terms of war, I wondered? Is every disagreement a culture war? Must everything be a fight?
What the hell even is a culture war? The term is so loosely used that it sometimes seems it’s just an insult or a way to dodge an argument. But the term has serious history. It derives from the German kulturkampf (yes, we wacky Krauts have a word for everything) which was originally used to describe a clash in 19th century Germany between a head of government and the head of the church.
So it started as a struggle between church and state, with all the moral implications that brought with it, and has now come to be used to describe – in the words of the European Centre for Populism Studies – a “cultural conflict between social groups and the struggle for dominance of their values, beliefs, and practices”.
James Davis Hunter, the sociologist credited with making the term “culture wars” popular, gave examples of some areas in which they rage in the subtitle to his 1991 book Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics.
The trouble with that is it describes pretty much every source of disagreement that matters.
We can agree to disagree on chocolate or strawberry-flavoured icecream, but just about everything else – so help us contestable deity! – is rooted in values and morality which do not allow compromise.
These days it’s usually the left that accuses the right of waging culture wars whenever there is any resistance to progressive policies. But as Republican Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders made explicit in her response to US Democrat President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, conservatives reject the idea that they are the aggressors in the war over culture.
“Most Americans simply want to live their lives in freedom and peace,” she said. “But we are under attack in a left-wing culture war we didn’t start and never wanted to fight.”
This is a point increasingly being made by the right: along the lines of “we were just moseying along, minding our own cultural business, when progressives jumped out and attacked everything society holds sacred”.
The right is right, to some degree. By definition, it was not conservatives who were seeking a conflict over social values. They were busy conserving the ones we already had. It is progressivism that challenges those social norms, claiming it’s time to move on. To progress to a better place.
And voila, there’s your culture war. From the perspective of conservatives, it’s equivalent to having your house burgled, so you fight back. From the perspective of progressives, they’re peacefully Marie Kondoing a bunch of smelly old values that no longer spark joy, when suddenly the right attacks.
It’s helpful to understand this as we tackle the big-ticket culture issue of this year, the Indigenous Voice to parliament. Even the people who are deadset against it are not, as Albanese claimed, “trying to start a culture war”. Rather, they are acutely aware of the ongoing cultural wrestle in which we are all immersed.
Putting the Voice into the context of replacing the prayer at the beginning of official functions with the Acknowledgment of Country, reinterpreting Australia Day from being a day of national unity to a day of shame, and replacing King Charles with a to-be-determined First Nations person on the $5 note, Sky presenter and Daily Telegraph national affairs editor James Morrow argued this week that “progressives have been conducting a quiet guerrilla war against the symbols and traditions of ‘old’ Australia”. This view sees the Voice as a Trojan horse aimed at trashing, tearing down and ultimately replacing everything British settlers brought to Australia – including, eventually, liberal democracy.
If you think that’s a stretch, just consider the words and actions of Senator Lidia Thorpe, who this week left the Greens because she believes the Voice – as proposed by the prime minister – won’t guarantee to do all of these things. And she’s not alone in wanting a maximalist Voice.
In response to Peta Credlin’s warning that “should this Voice pass … Australia Day will change; there will be more demands to rewrite history; and there will be a multitude of treaties at all levels of government between our country and small groups of citizens”, online publication Crikey dryly observed that it “turns out a lot of positive things could happen if the Voice to parliament passes”.
That’s a million miles away from what most Australians like best about the Voice proposal. Namely, that it will give Indigenous Australians constitutional recognition and a say in their own affairs.
They don’t want a culture war any more than Anthony Albanese does. But you can’t wish away a culture war by accusing the other side of starting it. Only by admitting that we are, whether mildly or wildly, all engaged in the cultural negotiation can we ensure we keep sensible talks alive. The people who desperately want the best of what we have, as well as the best of what we have yet to build, are the ones best placed to stand up for a compromise that they consider acceptable.
I get it. Nobody wants to be part of a war, let alone a culture war. But we must engage or risk ceding the ground to extremists. As the prime minister asked last Sunday: if not now, then when? And if not us, then who?
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The biggest problem is that a bill that is purported to shut down White Supremacists but not supremicists of ANY race is in face a HIGHLY RACIST BILL.
This bill is naked racism in the guise of shutting down racism.
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