Hate Crimes I have Committed

Some Police ‘Force’ in Yorkshire has just got themselves in a lot of Twitter trouble over this tweet:

In addition to reporting hate crime, please report non-crime hate incidents, which can include things like offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing. Hate will not be tolerated in South Yorkshire. Report it and put a stop to it #HateHurtsSY pic.twitter.com/p2xf6OLoQZ

— SouthYorkshirePolice (@syptweet) September 9, 2018

Police Forces are often getting themselves in Twitter trouble over some PC divvel or another that they come out with, it isn’t uncommon these days
What is uncommon is for a Police Force to ask people to report others for non-crimes, so they can be treated as actual crimes anyway
Because apparently, ‘Hate will not be tolerated in South Yorkshire’

Well I’m glad I don’t live in South Yorkshire, because even though I don’t hate anyone and I don’t go gay bashing on the internet or some such, I’m pretty sure I would still fall foul of the new South Yorkshire definition of hate and still end up with my collar being felt

I did a little experiment to find out. Let’s take a look at their statement:

Hate crime is an incident or crime which is perceived to be motivated by prejudice or hostility against a persons’ race, faith, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity

Hate crime is an incident or crime…
So the law no longer defines what a crime is. Crimes are defined by the Offence Industry and their enablers. A non criminal incident is now a crime

…which is perceived to be…
It doesn’t matter what was the actual meaning or your words / text, it only matters how other people perceive them. There will always be some offendatron mong out there, willing to be outraged by your viewpoint, so literally any speech could be treated as a crime under these definitions.

Of course it won’t be the case that all ‘incidents’ are treated with equal zeal, it will only be the ones that offend some snowflake on the left. White males need not apply

…motivated by prejudice or hostility…

Well I can safely say I am not prejudiced against anyone at all. In fact, I can scratch that all together

I am sometimes hostile though. And there’s nothing wrong with that in my opinion. Hostility is not really all that strong an emotion. It’s not a hate emotion or a violence emotion, it’s more an annoyance emotion; the kind of emotion you may feel towards someone you think is a complete muppet, but just won;’t go away and leave you alone

It’s a crime though apparently and as I sometimes feel it, it has to stay

…against a persons…

being a person who judges others on their own merit, I should be able to cross all these off
I’m not racist, despite what the Left thinks of my opinion
I don’t judge people for their disabilities
If you want to be gay, be gay
Really, I’m not the judgy type. If you’re a nice person, I’ll probably like you

What do we have left?

Oops. Still a couple on there

Faith?
Yes, I’m afraid so. I did say I only judge people on their merits and I stand by that. The trouble is, if you believe in an all powerful sky fairy who tells you to do horrible things to your fellow human beings who don’t believe in such nonsense, I’m not going to believe you have many merits

I can feel hostile towards people whose existence is defined by the pixie in the sky

Gender Identity?
That used to come under sexual orientation, which I’ve crossed off. Now there are twenty odd different genders and we are supposed to teach primary school children about them so they can pick one at five years old, even if it means cutting off their cocks when their balls have not long dropped

Oops, that sounded a little hostile, didn’t it

Your sexual preferences are no business of mine and nor do I want them to be, but if you tell me you are a gender fluid omnisexual and I must use your preferred pronouns, I’ll probably feel a degree of hostility

So dear reader, I really am a nice guy, so if I were to say something like, “Islam is a hideous religion that should be consigned to the dark ages”, or, “There are only two genders”, please don’t dob me in to South Yorkshire police

I don’t think I could handle prison