- The 'progressive forces' in our society are fervently
pushing for more "hate-crime" legislation. Dissatisfied with
the federal "hate crime" law that, in most cases, only stiffens
punishment for offenders who were motivated by hatred of race, they now
seek to add sexual orientation, gender, disability, and other politically
correct categories to the list.
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- "Hate-crime" legislation is the ultimate socialist
fantasy. That is because it fulfills the greatest socialist calling: to
camouflage the hatred of life and of individuals with a loudly professed
love of "humanity." "Hate-crime" laws achieve what
socialism-in-practice achieved throughout the 20th century: the dehumanization
and extermination of large parts of the human race.
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- The key to "hate-crime" legislation is that
certain groups of people are protected, while others are not. Because
these laws have a socialist agenda, it is no big surprise that class hatred
does not fall within its categories of protection. Socialism, after all,
is a direct repudiation of the Tenth Commandment - "Thou shalt not
covet thy neighbor's goods." Instead, it stresses that the neighbor
who owns more and better should not only be hated, but - in the best tradition
of Stalin's forced collectivization - eliminated.
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- Thus, when whites kill blacks, or when heterosexuals
kill homosexuals, "hate-crimes" are now considered to have taken
place. But when Kathleen Soliah is charged with placing pipe bombs beneath
two randomly selected Los Angeles police cars, this is considered a testament
of revolutionary courage. That is because, when she was a member of the
Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) 24 years ago, Soliah despised capitalism
and hoped to build class equality. The police, who were the protectors
of the fascist patriarchy, had to be exterminated.
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- So too, if you are black and kill whites, you are also,
like Soliah, not engaging in "hate-crime." The murder of the
8-year-old white boy Kevin Shifflett in Alexandria, Va. in April, 2000,
is a sad reminder of this reality. Shifflett was murdered by a black male
who slit the youngster's throat while screaming racial epithets at him.
Unlike the killings of blacks by whites, this murder was not seen as a
"hate-crime," nor did the press even refer to it as a racial
crime. The racial identities of the victim and murderer were suppressed.
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- This phenomenon is very much about the socialist implementation
of "thought crimes." People are trained to think "correctly."
And this ends up spawning the ideal socialist reality, in which, as George
Orwell put it in Animal Farm: "All animals are equal, but some animals
are more equal than others."
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- In Hating Whitey, David Horowitz crystallizes the breeding
ground for "hate-crime" laws. He demonstrates the double standard
in American society when it comes to the toleration of hatred, revealing
how everyone is taught and expected to be inclusive and tolerant toward
all ethnic groups - except, of course, towards "whitey."
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- Horowitz shows how, in the university curricula throughout
the country, the most politically correct version of history and society
now entails the pedagogy that white people are evil. In his essay on bell
hooks (lowercase letters her own elusive social statement), Horowitz reveals
how the Distinguished Professor of English at the City College of New
York epitomizes the license to hate white people. One of the cult-leaders
of political correctness, hooks has written an essay in which she revels
in a fantasy about killing an anonymous white male on an airplane. She
says that she feels a "homicidal malice" and affirms that, "Had
I killed the white man whose behavior evoked the rage, I feel that it
would have been caused by the madness engendered by a pathological context."
She explains how those blacks who do not want to murder whites are victims
of a false consciousness. "Blacks who lack a proper killing rage,"
she writes, "are merely victims."
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- Horowitz observes that if hooks killed the white man,
someone else would ultimately have to be responsible, because: "even
if she had done it, she did not do it. In fact white people did it."
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- In reflecting on these phenomena, we come to understand
the origins and objectives of "hate-crime" legislation. As Horowitz
shows, the agenda is founded on Marxism, a philosophy that constructs
a paradigm of society being divided between oppressors and victims. And
it is precisely that vision that sees a social utopia being possible only
after the extermination of certain groups.
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- Thus, "hate-crime" legislation is the ultimate
socialist fantasy. Genocide cannot occur without hatred, and hatred cannot
effectively engender its killing machines without camouflaging itself
as love.
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- Jamie Glazov holds a Ph.D. in History with a specialty
in Soviet Studies. He is the author of 15 Tips on How to be a Good Leftist..
His father, Yuri Glazov, was a Soviet dissident during the Brezhnev era,
who signed the Letter of Twelve, denouncing Soviet human rights abuses.
His mother, Marina Glazov, also participated in the dissident movement
in the Soviet Union, actively typing and circulating Samizdat - the underground
political literature. To avoid imprisonment, Yuri Glazov took his family
out of the USSR in 1972 and settled in Canada in 1975, when Jamie was
9.
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- http://www.frontpagemag.com/columnists/glazov08-30-01.htm
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