There is global criticism of the new anti-free speech law in Scotland, including a dare from author J.K. Rowling to arrest her for her criticism of transgender policies. The law is so bad that even the British Prime Minister, in a country previously denounced for attacks on free speech, has demurred from supporting the Scottish law. Now Humza Yousaf, first minister of Scotland, has doubled down in supporting the draconian law while misrepresenting its language.Yousaf bizarrely claimed that critics have ignored that the legal threshold of “the new offences is very, very high indeed. Your behaviour has to be threatening or abusive and intended to stir up hatred.” It is almost comical in its absurdity. No, a standard based on “stirring up hatred” is not very very high. Moreover, the showing can be based on a showing that stirring up hatred was “likely” rather than “intended.”
In signature form, Yousaf reportedly then lashed out at critics like Rowling and Joe Rogan as “right-wing actors” who have “[no] sympathy for the fact we are bringing in legislation that is clamping down on hatred.” He insisted that this is merely an extension of the fight against “disinformation.”
The critics include virtually the entirety of the free speech community. Rowling’s objections to transgender policies are rooted in her feminist principles and the concern over the erasure of the gains of women generally.
By declaring opposing views as hateful, many on the left like Yousaf seek to shutdown any debate through a chilling effect on speech. Many do not want to face the cancel campaign or abuse directed against Rowling, who has the means and the following to weather this storm.
The Scottish law is a disgrace to the nation, which once distinguished itself in the Scottish Enlightenment as a haven for free thought.
The rewrite of Braveheart is going to be a real disappointment when Wallace asks what Scots will do without their freedom and Yousef steps forward to accuse him of “disinformation” and delivers him over to the English:
The social tyranny of the Left is spreading throughout the Western world at a very alarming rate. Even the United States, which has historically always been the bell weather of free speech, has been effected by the rise of censorship, and constrained speech in society. The fear of condemnation, and political retribution are ever present in the Western world when One expresses the courage to openly speak against controversial topics that have been condoned, and promoted by the Leftist progressives who hold powerful political positions in government. When the citizenry fears the government there is tyranny. When the government fears the citizenry, there is freedom. What little freedoms are left in the Western world are rapidly fleeting.
“The West” has already fallen. There are virtually NO ELITES on the side of traditional anything here. At best they are sincere liberals like Musk. At worst they are the ilk of Soros and whomever his allies are in Europe. All billionaire global capitalist parasites and enemies of the nations and the workers and regular decent orderly people everywhere.
We need to quit defending worthless shibboleths, and regroup for something worthwhile.
Ditch the liberal platitudes, don’t worry about free speech. People don’t use it well anyhow. Go for something stronger., Like national liberation?
the BILLIONAIRES the PLUTOCRACY want the “western” nations over-ran by migrants. Legal or illegal, they don’t care. Just dilute, divide, and atomize those legacy populations to make them weaker.
They just fear the legacy populations– like the white skinned red haired Scots- will rise up together and clip their wings. Take their stuff., I mean the Scots could rebel against their elites, AND THEY SHOULD
That’s all they care about, growing their relative power. Absolute numbers are meaningless, relative power is what matters. And by dividing everyone else, they raise their own
The former peoples of “The West” should look to Asian style communism for a formula on how to retake our lands. Like what?
“Socialism with Scottish characteristics” study the war of the Chicoms against all assorted foreigners in their lands and how they got rid of all of them.
What would that entail?> Lets see how about first getting rid of foreigners who play at being heads of state. Yousaf, that’s no true Scotsman, lol
Would the Chinese Communists abide a national leader with a name like that? How about the Vietnamese communists?
Do they keep their borders? Do they allow migrant invasions?
Do they allow foreign powers to dictate their fates?
Do they allow billionaires to call all their shots?
Think hard on this folks. Think. The billionaires, their admins, their mercs, the compradors, the poltical appointees, university deans, the news editors, the DEI admins, compradors, etc.
Once we relearn how to think we can understand very clearly who is on our side and who isnt.
We absolutely need to relearn how to think, first, to see the truths concealed right in front of our faces.
Saloth Sar
Maybe I wasnt clear. “The LEFT” is not a real thing. It is a bunch of hirelings and sycophants of billionaires like George Soros. They are organized rabble who show up for riots that are planned by “organizers” like Obama was when he first got out of school. People working for NFPs and NGOs that are all funded by tthe likes of Soros or other billionaire international capitalist parasites.
They are COMPLETELY FOOLING YOU when they pretend to be Marxists and Communists and wave the Che flag and all that garbage.
They may be Trotskyites after a fashion, or some other freakish intellectual dissenter like Gramsci, but they are not anything like who have been called “Stalinists”
Actually it’s a little bit of successful Bolshevism, Stalinism, or Asian style Communism that will be needed right here in the west, from a revolutionary element acting on behalf of the good decent people (“the workers” if you want to use the argot) to defang them, neuter them, and stop them from their war on humanity.
You know who “them” are. The managerial elites, their hirelings, their collaborators, and their sponsors among those billionaires.
Dont focus on the tip of the spear, like the migrant invasion, or the blmers , or antifa freaks. These are effects, not causes.
Focus on the hand holding the weapon. That’s who’s doign the harm.
Saloth Sar
His name alone speaks volumes.
Let’s Scottish-ixe it: Haimzish MacYousaf
The Marxist Yousef’s comments above could very well be interpreted as speech intending to stir up hatred, depending on one’s point of view of course….
And I would hope some intelligent Scot would use that as a good prime example of how this onerous law will play out. I would love to be in the courtroom when the charges are read against this islamic/socialist/ western culture despising immigrant reacts.
Sounds as though the Scottish are embracing the path for a caliphate (in European clothing).
What really is the difference between an islamic jihadist and a progressive jihadist? it is just the name, not the ideology or methodology.
It is a good question, Whimsical. It is amazing that a gay person, who would be thrown off a roof by the radical Muslim ideologues, sides with those people. It is amazing that progressives support terrorists. It is amazing how they all think alike and have adopted a fascist mentality.
If one is arrested for saying, for example, that immigrants should learn English, is it acceptable for the person to resist with deadly force? Why or why not?
Anonymous said: “If one is arrested for saying, for example, that immigrants should learn English, is it acceptable for the person to resist with deadly force?”
I suspect that your question may be deliberately phrased to entrap anyone answering it. but I will attempt to do so, anyway. If you mean “morally acceptable”, my opinion is this. If one is being physically attacked (which is the ultimate enforcement mechanism for any law, no matter how much politicians and bureaucrats may try to obfuscate that eventuality) by agents claiming practical authority to enforce a requirement that they have no moral authority to impose, anyone who is the target of that attack is morally fully justified to resist by any means that he or she elects to utilize. Practical considerations may obviously lead to other courses of behavior.
It was not an attempt to entrap. Thoughtful answer.
Yousaf hates Rowling and Rogan.
Ishabaka said: “Yousaf hates Rowling and Rogan.”
In 732 AD, Charles Martel stopped the invasion of the Moors in Central France, well South of the British Isles. 13 centuries later, the Limeys have voluntarily invited them in, and turned important governing functions over to them. That appears to be stupidity on steroids.
Tourists would do well to consider where in Europe they travel.
Here’s where we’re going: deporting all these 3rd world morons, whether they were born in Western Civilization or not, and reset the West so it never happens again.
A perfect idea, now show me the battle plan for making this happen.
Some people would prefer that 2 + 2 = 5. If you assert that 2 + 2 = 4, it could stir up anger and hatred in those people. But they’re the ones who are the looney-tunes, not you. This example is literally taken from Orwell, so calling it Orwellian is neither exaggeration nor metaphor.
Yet, that is what Scotland now has with the form slightly altered. There is no material difference between the government insisting you call a man “she” and a woman “he,” and the government insisting you say 2 + 2 = 5.
No wonder the world, as crazy as it is, is still condemning this ridiculous law.
This harlot is pushing thier agenda on the whole world via the UN~beast she rides!
The NT harlot is hidden within the OT harlot within the language our Father chose to be most widely spoken in these last days!:
JER(USA)LEM
Please check out how many times this NT harlot is alluded to within our Father’s Word!:
https://sumofthyword.com/2021/01/07/mystery-babylon-the-great-and-her-beast/
We are already in the 3rd year of this timeline and nukes will be flying by the fall of 2028 if not sooner!:
https://sumofthyword.com/2016/10/04/the-rapture-of-the-church-is-after-the-tribulation/
I just canceled our vacation trip to Scotland.
Who will be safe taking in Scotland? Only way to handle this is stop going to Scotland! Opps, no visitors, no revenue, no happy Scots!
People who don’t believe in free speech are basically limited intellectually because they don’t know how to defend their points of view with a logical framing of concepts. It is no different that using fists to win an argument instead of conversation. Keep dumbing down the people and this is what we get!
If we ever pass real anti-hate legislation, the MSM would be in legal jeopardy. They have dedicated themselves for the past 10 years is so in promoting hatred of Donald Trump and almost all Republicans.
There was disinformation in Braveheart. The kilt was not a thing until much later.
poetic license.
They had to wait until underwear was invented.
Tyranny! This is what happens without the 2nd Amendment.
Look at the Marist history of the Twentieth Century.
This is a Lucifarian law that is designed to be turned toward the Christians and their Bible which stands in direct opposition to the wicked and their satanic theology!:
Lawlessness is coming exponentially!:
https://sumofthyword.com/2017/01/18/the-mystery-of-lawlessness/
It’s happening here too and most gun nuts are too selfish and lazy to politically organize beyond joining NRA
We need more serious stuff now. and that means not individualism, but nationalism. It’s us or them.
And the them in question for anybody too dull to figure it out, especially you guys always whining about “marxists,” is actually one of the bad guys old Karl Marx himself identified, INTERNATIONAL CAPITALISTS
Guys like Soros or whichever. The billionaires, in a nutshell
Get over complaining about Communists all the time. The BLMers and antifa and all that human garbage are actually street level mercenaries organized by the international capitalists like Geo Soros
We ought to be imitating Asian communist parties, who were not decadent freaks like the “LEft” in the west, they were hard hitting committed nationalists like the Viet Cong who threw all the foreigners out of Vietname, French Jap and American alike. THat’s the model we should have.
Or yes even Mao and the dreaded See See PEE!
Saloth Sar
Prior to the hysterical woke leftists, us normal, reasonable people would all agree to a high bar standard that would be considered “hate” speech, but even then, we recognize the 1stA protects that person’s speech, even a Nazi in Skokie IL. The right thing to do is either counter protest or just ignore them.
But now, with these woke leftists, who fall down, curl up into the fetal position crying, demanding safe spaces, cookies, coloring books, pictures of puppies and kittens, if someone uses some word they do not like, the bar is now set very, very, low.
This is the stupid we have to fight against.
“Prior to the hysterical woke leftists, us normal, reasonable people would all agree to a high bar standard that would be considered “hate” speech,”
Upstate, I think you are demonstrating why hate speech laws should never have been passed.
The minister is young and inexperienced in such matters.
No excuses for this minister! We all make mistakes but the unwise defend the indefensible … that is the problem. The Scots will end up looking foolish if they don’t repeal this law. Time will tell … wait till kids have their parents arrested under this new law! Wow! Fun times ahead in Scotland. Beware America!
And coming to a neighborhood near you if the prog/left stays in power in ANY facet of our nation.
And ironically, is not a native Scot. Good argument for stricter laws on foreign citizenship. Immigrants often impose the culture, morality and beliefs of their native countries with them
As we too well see happening here and just wait until the progs give voting rights to each and every undocumented, untested, unvetted illegal that they have purposefully imported to do just that.
the Rule of Law is being destroyed by Fascist Globalist…so time to PUSH BACK and IGNORE THEIR “laws”
What the heck happened to the descendants of Robert the Bruce and Braveheart??? Freedom seems to have become a foreign word to the prog/left infested Scots.
Title: “Doubles down” not “double downs.”