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Hate Incident

December 25, 2020

By NZB3

Here’s a new level of madness in the modern-day Puritanism that is our Victimhood Culture era: The Hate Incident.

I remember when “hate crime” came on the scene. Watching a film from 2016, Angry Birds, this seems quaint now as we’ve moved on through “hate speech” and escalated to “hate incident.”  Offence Inflation has now reached the point where you don’t need to do anything or say anything to be offensive you can be booked for the mere possession of wrong emotions!

This helpful how-to guide comes from the police force, probably in the United Kingdom. The New Zealand Police, while not adverse at all to Politically Correct signalling, are not this far advanced in VC arts. In particular, West Yorkshire Police seem to be the Countdown Supermarket of policing, saying…

“A Hate Incident is any non-crime incident which is perceived by the victim or any other person to be motivated by hostility or prejudice based on a person’s disability, race, religion, sexual orientation or gender identity or perceived disability, race, religion, sexual orientation or gender identity.”- westyorkshire.police.uk

First, an arbitrary 1D cartoon category of “enduring characteristic” needs to be assumed. Like….gay or Maori or elderly or Jew. These discriminatory categories are illustrated to help you along.
Then, a trial by a third party to sift your motivations to see if you have any prejudice or hostility towards these categories (even if you don’t know it or don’t even know the category exist (which it may not.))
If the third party feels, not thinks (percept, not concept. not evidence. not reasons) your motivations are thusly suspect….And if it looks like you’re not on board with any of these cartoons (hostile/prejudiced) in the tea leaves of your motivations as perceived by the third party why, then, the arresting authority can book you for a hate incident!
Never mind Wrong Think, this is Wrong Feel.
Tell me how do I feel?
Tell me now, how should I feel?
They know how you feel better than you do. Hate Crime Officers will let you know and punish accordingly!
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Image ref. Rainbow NZ Police Car; AHNZ Archives (2020)
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