Increasingly we are seeing the term hate speech being used for merely disagreeing with the left. Hate speech used to be defined by objective harms such as incitement, threats or actual violence. Now the term is used by many on the hard left to shut down debate. The left will say hate speech if you upset their feelings. Merely ridiculing seems to be defined as hate speech and the arms of government are used to silence people.
The definitions are constantly changing to whatever is the progressive ideal or cause de jour of the day. Saying men cannot become women is labeled by many as hate speech. Saying that Australia’s immigration rate should be reduced a little is called hate speech. Showing a billboard with a picture of a pregnant women saying heartbeat at 5 weeks was called hate speech by many on the left last year and the billboard was removed on a highway in New South Wales. Quoting biblical passages or saying you live according to Christian values is considered hate speech.
To many progressives, they have redefined tolerance. They say you can live according to Christian values so long as you never advocate for them. You must not employ others who have the same values. The worst example of this was in Canada when Trudeau asked Christian based organizations with their Christian ethos to sign off a progressive laundry list of items or you will not get funding. Penny Wong wants Labor Party politicians and prospective future politicians to prescribe to Labor’s values, but never can you have that for Christians. That cannot be allowed!
They chant diversity and tolerance, but militantly shut down views which they disagree with. It is not possible to have freedom of speech without the freedom to propagate religious values free of the threat of legal censure or restriction. The left try to justify more restrictions. The left seem to have the biggest issue with Christianity as if it were the only religion. There are dozens of religions.
This expansion and redefinitions of hate speech is due to schools and universities becoming breeding grounds for whining leftist radicals. Free speech has largely been eradicated on university campuses as highlighted by the Institute of Public Affairs. Feminism, critical theory, gender politics, Marxism, race politics, identity politics and other degrees are largely unproductive. The most vocal groups on campus who go about de-platforming speakers predominately come from the humanities. They often call for a huge expansion of the administrative state to protect emotions and feelings. There is indeed a big growth in government agencies and statutory bodies in Australia that regulate the economy and speech via rules, regulations and ordinances. Western democracies are now very full of disillusioned, angry and confused graduates with degrees in grievance and victimhood studies. Trigger warnings and safe spaces are common at universities. De-platforming is increasing and meetings are stopped regularly.
Now we have the left actively saying that the parents are not the guardian of their children-the state is. They are calling for the ‘progressive state’ to remove children from parents who do not tick off the progressive wish list. They think the state should usurp parental rights. Children should have the right to freedom of speech, religion and conscience, but the activists do not wish them to have it. Schools have no business forcing them to engage in activities that violate their consciences or values.
Activists think children are sponges who will just accept and affirm everything the activists tell them. Children are being weaponized and used as shields to protect grown-ups from criticism. If you object to sexualisation of the classrooms you will be called a bigot and the youth will commit suicide. You are a terrible bully! Accept all the activism or there will be an epidemic of suicides.
Every anti-bullying program ever devised is being implemented in Australian schools. What is described as anti-bullying we know is just a method to make views unsafe that do not prescribe to the left’s view (like gender-fluid Marxists). If you mention this stuff to Japanese, Singaporean or Chinese kids they will laugh. Children are needing authority figures to shield them from any emotions or negative feelings. Instead of children being resilient, they are increasingly shielded from thoughts and over protected.
Homeschooling is of course a thorn in the side of the progressives. There were calls recently for homeschooling to be banned as it was being done by conservatives with old values. The left’s values are what exactly?- gender fluids, Marxism, welfare is good, feminism, drag queens reading to children, being free spirits, egalitarianism, gender confusion, automatons for the United Nations? Now you are beginning to see why homeschooling has grown more in popularity in the United States and Australia. No doubt the attacks on homeschooling will continue. How dare conservatives teach children such radical things like self reliance, academic rigor and mathematics?
A bigot is defined as anyone having Christian values. Anyone who holds what they view as objective standards of morality is said to be a bigot. Look at Twitter and other social media platforms-the chants of diversity, love, acceptance and tolerance abound. But go against any of their tenets and their fangs come out.
Well, try talking logic to people these days and they will tell you that you are fucking a white male.
Such is the asinine hypocrisy of the brain-dead, Bolshevik left.