More Projection Than The Local Odeon....

Looks like crime's so low in the People's Republic of Caledonia that the McFilth have had to resort to policing hypothetical crime:

Police have been accused of targeting JK Rowling in a parody by inventing a fictional trans-hating character called Jo who believes 'they all belong in the gas chambers' in a hate crime scenario.

Yep, that would be the 'Jo' who's a massive Labour Party donor and Uber-Karen, but now they're trying to claim she's totally some demented liberal caricature of a right-winger.

Honestly, it's like a mashup of Taggart and the Self-Righteous Brothers. 

Still, I'm all about the equality me, so how about asking them what they would do if Jonathan 'India' Willoughby broke into Porton Down, stole anthrax spores and then hired an ice cream van and drove round south-east Inverness giving anthrax-laden 99s to passing school children while dressed as Amy Winehouse? 

Hey, you ever think about that one, PC McWoke? 

No? 

Will no one think of the imaginary children? 

Apparently, 'jihad' doesn't necessarily mean 'holy war' but everything the right says totally does - even if the rightists in question are identikit Guardian-reading bores like 'Jo'. 

Say, that sounds like something a bunch of creepy fanatics would use to try and bamboozle the public into supporting violent thuggery....

I mean I can't help noticing that all the actual, non-hypothetical, crimes appear to come from one side of the debate. 

Just who exactly is fantasising about herding their opponents into gas chambers, huh? 

They're not even hiding it anymore. A journalist for the BBC - of course - is openly fantasying about a 'Final Purge' - nudge, nudge, wink, wink - targeting people who [checks notes]... hate woke video games. 

Seriously, that's all it takes for a leftist to start fantasising about mass murder: not liking their rubbish, preachy games. 

These people are all nuts. 

Death Was By Blunt Language Trauma

Uh oh.... looks like Lee Anderson has fallen foul of people who'd never vote Tory anyway. 

Now they're going to not vote Tory really hard. They're going to not vote Tory to infinity plus one. After all, according to world-famous moderate Sadiq Khan, his language was inflammatory. 

Also inflammatory: arson 

Weirdly enough though, Moderate Sadiq Khan hasn't mentioned this yet. I guess it's just part and parcel of living in a big city.... which was the exact phrase he used to describe the slaughter of innocent civilians by terrorists. 

Say, I wonder if any of the hand-wringing cucks complaining about Lee Anderson's 'clumsy' language have anything to say about that? 

I don't recommend holding your breath waiting for them to even mention it. 

That's the whole reason normal people are so stoked about what Lee Anderson said - we're just sick of being asked to believe in obvious absurdities. The people who are outraged about anyone criticising Islamism, but not people blowing up the No 52 bus are in no way moderates and what they support is in no way equality. More to the point though, a party that pretends there's something outrageous about pointing all this out  is in no meaningful sense  'conservative'. 

I Shot A Man In Reno Just To Watch Him Die (And It's All Stephen King's Fault)

Liberals, true as ever to their motto 'being outraged about the wrong things since 1978', have decided that the real guilty party in the Brianna Ghey case is everyone who ever objected to a guy in a dress sharing a changing room with their six year old daughter. 

Although to be fair, I did think J K Rowling went a little too far in her book 'Harry Potter And The Creepy Tranny In A Terrible Wig'. 

Meanwhile, non-insane people note that the actual killers will be eligible for release in their mid-thirties i.e. still prime murdering age. 

I'm sure they'll be totally rehabilitated by then though.....

Note that not only did the jury not find that the killers were motivated by transphobia, the prosecution didn't even allege this - the judge herself decided to introduce this after the verdict was in.

You might say she decided to transition the case....

But wait, where are all the people who usually sermonise about muh sacred due process now  that a judge has suddenly decided that the whole trial thing is just a warm up act to her telling us what really happened? 

As it is, her reasoning seems.... well, let's just say I think there's a reason why she chose to wait to  introduce this until after no one could answer back:

'Your messages about Brianna were transphobic,' she told him. 'You consistently referred to her in a way that was dehumanising, calling her "it". You also described her as a "femboy thing".'

Wait... this guy sounds like me. 

Or, come to think of it, anyone else who rolls their eyes at the whole 'I identify as a cat' thing. 

And if you think that's weak, there's this:

While Jenkinson did not use transphobic language, she said it was the prosecution case that she 'encouraged' Ratcliffe to kill Brianna in the knowledge that his 'attitude' would make it more likely that he would go ahead and stab her

Huh? Hanging out with bigots who use insensitive language makes you a bigot too. How about if they work under you in some kind of group? Let's say there's some hypothetical guy - we'll call him Sir Keith Stoller - and some of the people who work under him are a bunch of raving antisemitic nuts? Is he responsible for any crimes they do too? 

Still, we have to look on the bright side of all this: at least motivation is back in play as something we're allowed to talk about. 

Hey, if we're allowed to trawl through some scumbag's text messages to work where he's coming from, we're surely free to do a deep dive into other cases... like, say, the Nottingham Horror. 

Right, liberals? 

Nope, guess not. 

The killer was sane enough to arm himself, conceal the weapon, travel into town, strike at the time of day when the police response was likely to be slowest, lie in wait for his victims and target only a specific demographic but too crazy for us to be able to ever understand why he targeted the people he did. 

Could be literally anything, you guys!

They Want Us Silenced, We Want Them To Speak Up

Say, did I miss anything while I was tied up?

Nothing good, that's for sure.

On the plus side, Becky from HR failed to become Tory leader for the second time so I can reuse my old joke about her self-identifying as PM. 

Also, we've finally found an immigrant from Africa who really is doing a job the locals just wouldn't do, namely cleaning up Twitter. 

Obviously Elon Musk buying Twitter is a good thing but it is kind of depressing that in just over a week he's fired more blue-haired loonies than the Tories have managed in twelve years. 

The cucks claim the Tory Party has to keep selling out its base to have any hope of winning elections. Meanwhile, liberals are panicking that they'll now no longer have thousands of commissars on Twitter censoring conservative thought. So apparently soi dissant conservatives claim they can't sell actual conservativism but liberals think they'll be swept aside once they have to face conservatives on a level playing field. 

They can't both be right!

Personally, I think that - for possibly the first time ever - the liberals are right. Consider one of the Twitter accounts that enrages them above all others:  Libs of TikTok. It's just what it sounds like, an account that showcases stuff liberals have posted on TikTok. You may think they'd be happy to have their stuff passed on to a wider audience....

Reader, they are not. 

Libs of TikTok was subject to all manner of harassment from the old regime at Twitter - plus a whole bunch of real world trouble too. The same people who claim conservatives are creepy fringe weirdoes really don't like the public finding out what they really believe. 

That's the difference right there. Liberals want us no-platformed, we want them pro-platformed. We positively insist they speak out. If it was up to me I'd have them on TV 24/7 - the only caveat would be that they have to make their case on their own, with no sympathetic interviewer there to lob them softballs and keep them on the rails. Who wouldn't watch 'Riding With Raheem' - Raheem Sterling is driven round the country in a solid gold Rolls Royce meeting fellow race hustlers and accusing random farmers, postmen and plumbers of oppressing him with their white privilege? 

SJWs Always Project

As many have pointed out, the left no longer loses elections, instead every single time it turns out they got robbed by a massive, huge conspiracy designed to make them look like out of touch freaks.

Hence why we’ve had nearly two weeks of MSM drones trying to claim that Trump was elected thanks to a small group of brilliant – yet evil – psychological manipulators in the flat bit of England. How likely is it that Cambridge Analytics have the type of deep psychological knowledge that can swing elections? Consider the nature of the supposed whistleblower:

In the words of the Observer’s pink-haired, nerdish whistleblower, former CA employee Christopher Wylie….

You’d think a company full of supposed genius psychologists would spot an obvious kook, huh?

B O’N gets half way there:

These people are so entitled, they were so used to getting in their own way in politics, that as soon as something didn’t go their way they assumed that some massive, powerful, shadowy group must have warped the heads of us, the little people.

But there’s more to it than that: consider the actual scandal of the Nazi pug farce. 

Almost all MSM coverage has concentrated on the question of whether or not it’s actually funny. They take it as given that it’s the government’s role to deal harshly with Felony Unfunny. Barely a single MSM drone will ask if unlicensed comedy is really a serious social ill demanding state action. They just can’t imagine that each and every one of their own petty prejudices should not be enshrined in law.

Hence the meltdown over Brexit and Trump. It’s all projection. They’re convinced that the right will abuse power as badly as the left always does. It may be a good thing overall that the right doesn’t do this, but we ought to at least stop pretending that there's anything reasonable or respectable about the left's position.

Fat Slobby Monster Threatens Civilisation

I'm with Snafu - cutting back on the cutbacks is bad news.

My problem isn't just the narrow question of whether or not we can afford to have half the country on the government payroll. The problem's bigger than that. It's the tacit acceptance of the world view that sees elephantine government as a normal part of our national life.

Even if we had an eccentric trillionaire underwriting our fiscal insanity, this kind of thing would still a ludicrous example of governmental overreach.

Perfect

Things you always knew, but couldn't put into words: meet the 'Ransom Note Method'.

Bombs: Yes, Badges: No

I guess liberals don't always feel the need to understand the 'root causes' before dealing with 'extremism' after all. Hmmmm... how do we know that this won't just lead to more badge-wearing?

Of course, what the guy should have done was gone to sunday service at the Church of St Adolf the Martyr, then libs would have been right behind him, wouldn't they?

Ditto, I guess these guys are safe just as long as they avoid any badge related activities.

Oh.... and then there's this guy. Probably a Buddhist, right?

Don't Mention The..... Anything

Who'd have guessed that the Democrat primaries would end up with Hillary as the sane, middle of the road candidate ? Meanwhile, Obama is such a strong candidate that we're not allowed to discuss anything about him.

Amongst the things we can't mention are his middle name, his foreign policy and his wife's goofy speeches. Actually, I understand why the Democrats are doing this - it's a natural strategy when the polls show your party's most consistent candidate is 'Generic Democrat'. Once the public gets wind of just how plain weird the average Democrat candidate is, their support collapses.

This is part of a more general phenomenon. Liberals don't do well once the public understands what they actually believe, hence why the left is obsessed with closing down debate with laws on hate speech and the like.

Quote Of The Day

Honey or vinegar? Jesus, who the hell wants flies to begin with?

KS on reaching out to the exploding community. And she's just getting started.

Steyn D'Jour

On the Minority Report-style justifications for 'hate speech' laws:

I've been hearing the same line for five months in these nutso "human rights" complaints up in Canada: Steyn writes a book to promote his "ideas"; Adolf Hitler wrote a book to promote his "ideas". And we know how that turned out...

It's interesting that the same people who object to the doctrine of pre-emption with regard to, say, the Iranian nuclear program are quite happy to apply it to radio hosts and columnists.

Liberals 4 Free Speech

While liberals invent ever more ludicrous forms of hate speech, they're enraged at companies that try and crush dissent using these wacky, newfangled laws on defamation.

Fortunately, truth is an absolute defence against defamation charges. Folks charged with hate crimes aren't that lucky, so clearly we have to worry about our fundamental human right to lie with impunity. Hmmmm.... how bad can these companies be if libs can only argue against them by lying like rugs ?

Controversy After 'Controversial' Ruled Too Controversial

It's that controversial!

And thus was answered the question as to whether or not alleged 'hate speech' laws are anything to do with actual hate, or just a way of silencing the right. Hate speech laws were loopy enough back when we had the liberal's ever-expanding list of banned words, but now it turns out calling things what they are is hateful too.

Still, at least we've got liberals on record now as claiming that Tablighi Jamaat are examples of mainstream Islam (they must be if you can't call them controversial or radical, right) ? Let's see how that works out for them.

Godwin ?

I don't care, it's still a good point:

The problem is, the Weimar Republic had [hate speech laws]. It used them freely against the Nazis. Far from stopping Hitler, they only made his day when he became Chancellor. They enabled Hitler to confront Social Democratic Party chairman Otto Wels, who stood up in the Reichstag to protest Nazi suspension of civil liberties, with a quotation from the poet Friedrich Schiller:

"'Late you come, but still you come,'" Hitler pointed at the hapless deputy. "You should have recognized the value of criticism during the years we were in opposition [when] our press was forbidden, our meetings were forbidden, and we were forbidden to speak for years on end."

The Nazis would have been just as repressive without this excuse, but being able to offer it made Hitler's task easier. Like Canadian supporters of hate-speech legislation, supporters of the Weimar Republic thought that their groups and causes would occupy all seats of authority and set all social and legal agendas forever. Shades of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association or the Canadian Jewish Congress! They couldn't envisage the guns of their own laws being turned around to point at them one day.