Trump Signs “Anti-Hate” Bill Threatening Freedom of Speech

Trump’s DACA dealings with the Democrats aren’t the only indication that the predicted leftward lurch is underway. There may be no cause dearer to the liberal heart than the restriction of speech under the guise of suppressing “hate” — with hate inevitably becoming defined as whatever the authorities want us to hate. Progressives might want to reconsider their sputtering hatred for Trump in light of this:

Trump signed a congressional resolution condemning a white nationalist march on Charlottesville, Va. last month, saying he opposes “hatred, bigotry, and racism in all forms.” …

The joint resolution, sponsored by Democratic Virginia senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, was largely ceremonial. It condemned the events of Charlottesville as a “domestic terror attack,” and urged Trump to “speak out against hate groups that espouse racism, extremism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and White supremacy.”

Sounds like virtue-signaling B.S., vaguely endorsing the cultural Marxist worldview as a formality. No wonder it was hardly reported. The sanctimonious, time-wasting bill was devoid of significance.

Or maybe not:

The resolution demands “the President and the President’s Cabinet… use all available resources to address the threats posed by those groups” and requires “the heads of other Federal agencies… improve the reporting of hate crimes and… emphasize the importance of the collection, and… reporting to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, of hate crime data by State and local agencies”.

“Those groups” refers to groups accused of “white supremacism” — a term that is increasingly used as a synonym for “right of center.”

The notion of “hate crimes” is an attack on the fundamental principle of equality before the law. It establishes a caste system, according to which politically favored groups like blacks, Muslims, and homosexuals are granted higher legal status than others.

This isn’t about fringe groups like the KKK. This is about criminalizing conservative thought, and establishing a cultural Marxist legal hierarchy that it will soon be illegal to criticize. A framework is under construction that will see people imprisoned for expressing views that are currently still regarded as mainstream.

On a tip from DACA Don.