A post by Pat
The smart people are going to study and define hate then teach the kids how to be agents for social change. What could go wrong?
Political Correctness was an amusing loony left notion in the beginning, giving male names to hurricanes, spelling “woman” “womin”, quirky things like that. It got seriously irritating when we had to drop Christmas for The Winter Festival, but PC kept rolling along. It continued getting worse over the years while we all learned to self-censor our thoughts and actions to the point of getting 13 people killed at Fort Hood. Sane people think it’s finally time to pull back from PC. The radicals think it’s time to kick it up a notch. They want to formally define hate within society and develop a comprehensive program to “educate” the young to be social change agents.
The idea for Hate Studies came out of Gonzaga University in 1997. The initial premise, as usual, sounds worthy.
Why do we hate? Academics seek answer in new field
What makes hate tick?” Mohr, director of Gonzaga’s Institute for Action Against Hate, wondered. “How can we stop it?”
Gonzaga founded the institute a decade ago after some black law students received threatening letters. It has since started a Journal of Hate Studies, hosted a conference and offered its first class on hatred last spring.
The hope is that other universities will follow suit, said Ken Stern of the American Jewish Committee in New York, who has been involved in the effort. “We wanted to approach hate more intelligently,” he said.
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A flashback by Maynard
There’s precedent for Mr. Obama’s renounce-your-political-opponents (flag@whitehouse.gov) campaign. When Janet Reno was Bill Clinton’s Attorney General, look at what showed up on the “For Kids” section of the Justice Department website. This copy is exactly as it appeared on the government page; emphasis has been added to highlight the point that, yes, Reno really did urge kids to suspect their parents of racism and turn them in for telling questionable jokes.
By way of contrast, try to imagine the firestorm that would have ensued if kids were urged to report their parents for criminal activity or terrorism or really serious stuff. That level of invasiveness was only permitted to left-wingers for the purpose of intimidation in the name of political correctness.
This particular web page revision was dated October 27, 1997.
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A message from the Attorney General:
In these stories, kids like you have to deal with the prejudice of their family members. We all have relatives and friends that came to this country from other lands. Some chose to come, and some did not. Unfortunately, some people — even our relatives — can forget how difficult it is to come to a new country, learn a new language and make new friends.
When someone makes jokes about people, or labels people, because of where they come from, the color of their skin, their religion, or gender, it is both a hurtful act and a hateful act. If this happens in your home, you might try talking to your parents, teacher, religious leader, counselor, or other adult with whom you feel comfortable. |
The purely fascist tactic of ritual defamation, condemning dissent, and attempts to silence voices that do not pledge allegiance to the Left, has now consumed local and federal Democrat lawmakers.
In one of the most remarkable and shameless displays of Thought Police tactics, Democrats now carry the water for the Soros Gestapos which exist to squelch public discussion of which they do not approve or does not confirm to their nihilistic leftist agenda.
Make no mistake–this is one of many volleys launched in an effort to revive the necessary and ultimate leftist grab for power–a return of the so-called Fairness Doctrine, which would kill the freedom of market and listener driven talk radio.
San Francisco supervisors condemn Savage
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors today condemned nationally syndicated radio talk-show host Michael Savage, whose program originates in city by the bay, for “hate speech.” It was the board’s second attempt at a resolution to condemn Savage for his criticism of illegal aliens in the U.S…”This is a dry run against free speech in America by the Islamists and the illegal aliens who are now becoming one and the same,” said Savage in August. “It’s the same organizational structure. … I am the target of this dry run. They want to see how far they can get in silencing a voice of freedom in the United States of America. They want to see which, if any, governmental agencies will stop them.”
“Guess what they learned so far?” he continued. “That not only will no governmental agency stop them in their attempts to kill free speech, they will aid them in their attempts to kill free speech. We have lost our freedoms already.
And this absurdity. Apparently the Democrats in the Senate have nothing better to do than jump into the Thought Police sewer:
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You’ve heard a lot from me about the Young America’s Foundation, a group that promotes authentic conservative ideas and with which I am proudly associated. They are now being threatened by the rabid, freakish unindicted co-conspirator group CAIR, an Hamas spin-off, if they allow an event they’re planning with Robert Spencer to proceed.
CAIR is funded by Saudi Arabia, the nation Bush recently announced we’re planning on giving $20 billions dollars to in aid. I suppose when a nation a obscenely rich as Saudi Arabia doesn’t need to spend $20 billion on its military, that leaves more cash to send over the CAIR.
LGF has the story, with a link back to Hot Air. I am especially impressed with YAF’s response.
“CAIR can go to Hell and they can take their 72 virgins with them.â€
Knowing the good people at YAF, I’m not surprised they have no intention of genuflecting in front of these rabid dogs who rely on intimidation and bullying to keep decent people from exposing the truth about Radical Islam. The only way to stop this sort of Lawyered-Up Domestic Terrorism is to look it in the face and spit.
An din one of th emore nauseating elements of this ricidulous situation, Charles at LGF is noting the CAIR lawyer who wrote the threatening letter to the YAF is none of the than the counsel for the Democratic National Committee, i.e. George Soros and Howard Dean.
I don’t now how much clearer or more obvious God needs to make out current situation.
A post by Maynard
The New York Post is reporting a horrendous scandal at the New York Times. The claim is that a NYT editor got drunk at an office party and was heard to mutter the f-word. No, not that f-word; that one is perfectly acceptable in enlightened society these days. This is the f-word that gets you incarcerated at a re-education camp, after which you deliver a tearful public apology and pledge to spend the remainder of your life making amends. The word Ann Coulter hurled at Mr. Silky Pony. Its use would represent an unthinkable infraction at an elite institution such as the Times. An investigation was launched, and fresh copies of the anti-harassment guidelines were distributed to all employees.
This reminds me of a friend who works in the Los Angeles Library system. She told me the employees were required initial the various clauses of the non-discrimination policies, thus acknowledging they had been informed of the many things they weren’t allowed to talk about.
I don’t want to defend or justify rude or boorish behavior, which is of course disgusting. But does the disease justify the cure? We seem to have reverted to the excesses of McCarthyism.
Do you remember when Joe McCarthy decided we should fight Communism by making people sign loyalty oaths? Soon everyone was busily investigating everyone else’s past for hints of disloyal behavior. For example, maybe you wrote a book report on Tolstoy when you were in high school, in which case you were probably a Russian sympathizer. The atmosphere became something of a feeding frenzy, and for a while McCarthy was untouchable. But at the end of the day, he hadn’t uncovered any Commies; all he had done was make a noble cause look mean and ridiculous. As a practical matter, McCarthy did more to aid and abet the traitors than he did to stymie them.
I hope I live long enough to see today’s politically correct elites join Joe McCarthy in failure and disgrace. But I’m not holding my breath.
Funny how my show sounded like NPR for a bout 15 minutes yesterday 
On yesterday’s Tammy Radio, I offered up what hypocrites like Sharpton, Jackson and Hillary Clinton want talk radio to be–irrelevant, tranquilizing, and vapid. Why? Because they know, especially at a time when conservatives and classical liberals have no real leadership, talk radio fills that void, discusses and exposes the enemies among us, and provides a forum for the average person to stay informed and active. A free discussion amongst the people is kryptonite to leftists. They cannot survive the distribution of ideas and the discussion of facts, and they know it.
Leftists have always liked Enemies Lists, and today’s fascists are no different. For those of you wondering who else is on the Soros Gestapo Talk Radio Hit List, all you need to do is go to one of his many puppet entities Media Matters.
It’s not just Imus
…But as Media Matters for America has extensively documented, bigotry and hate speech targeting, among other characteristics, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and ethnicity continue to permeate the airwaves through personalities such as Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Michael Savage, Michael Smerconish, and John Gibson.
In addition to Media Matters, the Soros Industrial Complex includes the Center for American Progress, Moveon.org, Accuracy in Media, the Open Society Institute, and now, of course, the DNC. (Please see Discover the Networks extensive expose on Soros and his network of leftists foundations, think tanks and actions groups. It’s an invaluable resource.). By denying Soros’ direct involvement in MM, David Brock, who runs that brown-shirt cadre for the Soros gang, acknowledges how bad it looks for one man to be controlling and funding most of the leftist agenda.
Notice, however, Brock’s amateurish obfuscation of this ‘media matter’–the claim is that MM hasn’t received money from George Soros himself. Perhaps that’s the case, yet not quite the point. To receive Soros support does not require a check from the man himself. His various entities, foundations, think tanks and compatriots allow this new Wizard of Oz to fund an entity yet provide his Gestapos with some sort of deniability that there is one man behind the leftist curtain spending money furiously to undermine our democratic system.
The evidence is quite clear that Media Matters, the entity now leading the charge to silence talk radio, exists because of support from Soros compatriots and funded entities. This became undeniable years ago, to the point where MM itself stopped denying it receives indirect funding from Soros entities, yet continues the misleading claim that it doesn’t receive money directly from Soros himself.
Ah yes, with moral arbiters like Soros and Brock and Al “Tawana Brawley” Sharpton and Jessie “Hymie Town” Jackson what would all us empty-headed rubes do?
Not only is the attack on Imus a small part of a larger move by the Soros Gestapo to silence talk radio as quickly as possible before the 2008 primaries and election, it is a reflection of the rank hypocrisy of the men who make money hand over fist objectifying and denigrating women (of all colors) with so-called rap or hip-hop, also known as “urban music.”
Imus is a straw man in this culture war; a war with an agenda to silence those who are unafraid of the left, who cannot be intimidated into pledging allegiance to the Soros/Clinton/Sharpton agenda of victimhood, hopelessness and malevolence.
In a column for the New York Post, Kinky Friedman has one of the most salient assessments of the situation so far, comparing Imus to those who attack him, and what his firing says of the people who advocated for it. Here’s a snippet, but obviously, read the whole thing.
COWARDS KICK AWAY ANOTHER PIECE OF AMERICA’S SOUL
…There’s no excusing Imus’ recent ridiculous remark, but there’s something not kosher in America when one guy gets a Grammy and one gets fired for the same line…
Political correctness, a term first used by Joseph Stalin, has trivialized, sanitized and homogenized America, transforming us into a nation of chain establishments and chain people.
Take heart, Imus. You’re merely joining a long and legendary laundry list of individuals who were summarily sacrificed in the name of society’s sanctimonious soul: Socrates, Jesus, Galileo, Joan of Arc, Mozart and Mark Twain, who was decried as a racist until the day he died for using the N-word rather prolifically in “Huckleberry Finn.”…
Speaking of which, there will always be plenty of Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons around. There will be plenty of cowardly executives, plenty of fair-weather friends, and plenty of Jehovah’s Bystanders, people who believe in God but just don’t want to get involved. In this crowd, it could be argued that we need a Don Imus just to wake us up once in a while.
Swedish Flag from Brussels Journal and courtesy of Hmmh… Blogspot
In an absolutely outrageous decision for any democratic Western country, the government of Sweden has shut down a website that was showing the Mohammad cartoons.
Sweden views itself, as leftist governments usually do, as progressive, tolerant, and flame-holders for personal liberty. With this act, they expose the ultimate nature of socialism and leftists–the willingness to smash freedom of expression and personal liberty in the name of ’security.’
While Sweden is the first Western nation to officially censor (Islamic nations have done so, but fascism and Islamic theocracies go hand in hand), let us hope it is the last. But this does not bode well when it comes to whether or not the West has the wherewithall to stand up for itself and its values. What could crush western European values now is the same thing that crushed it in the first half of the last century–when leftist socialism infects government, fascism is not far behind. Fascist control of media is the first act, always in the name of ’safety’ or ‘for the best of everyone,’ or to ostensibly maintain ’social control.’
Swedes everywhere should be appalled and up in arms. So far, though, we’ve heard virtually nothing from the people of that ‘progressive’ country as it essentially abandons its neighbors Denmark and Norway, and the basic tenets and values that keep the Western world free.
The values of freedom are lovely and nice when one does not have to defend them.When we are challenged is when we find out who we really are. The Germans learned what was at their core in the last century. Sweden, are you to be the first Western nation in the 21st century to surrender to fascism?
Related Links:
Brussels Journal: Send a Message to the Swedish
Monsters and Critics: Swedish website shut down over Prophet caricatures
UPDATE 2/13:
From von Schlichtningen in Comments, the creator of the flag above and passionate blogger on this subject and others with notes and links worthy of the main Tammy Blog. He describes himself as “a self employed Scandinavian turned European and living in sunny Portugal.” Visit his blog when you can:
Actually I made the flag. See my original article:
http://hmmh.blogspot.com/2006/02/war-on-freedom.html
(It is a little bit excessive in hindsight, but I was upset.)
But you and anybody else is more than welcome to it.
Tammy, I really like your posting on this subject!
Dave J, see my answer to that argument here:
http://hmmh.blogspot.com/2006/02/one-track-mind.html
Bad soup! Bad, bad, bad soup!
Serve the soup, be a racist.
Serve the soup, be insensitive.
Soup good, pork bad. Pork soup bad. Serve the bad soup, you bad.
Racist soup!
Mon dieu.
Hate Studies — Orwellian New Academic Field
by Pat_S on November 18, 2009 · 4 comments
A post by Pat
The smart people are going to study and define hate then teach the kids how to be agents for social change. What could go wrong?
Political Correctness was an amusing loony left notion in the beginning, giving male names to hurricanes, spelling “woman” “womin”, quirky things like that. It got seriously irritating when we had to drop Christmas for The Winter Festival, but PC kept rolling along. It continued getting worse over the years while we all learned to self-censor our thoughts and actions to the point of getting 13 people killed at Fort Hood. Sane people think it’s finally time to pull back from PC. The radicals think it’s time to kick it up a notch. They want to formally define hate within society and develop a comprehensive program to “educate” the young to be social change agents.
The idea for Hate Studies came out of Gonzaga University in 1997. The initial premise, as usual, sounds worthy.
Why do we hate? Academics seek answer in new field
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