Sheila Lee Jackson’s Racist Bill

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Have you posted anything on social media recently about your concern about the worsening situation on the US southern border?

What about the potential dangers of unmitigated flows of illegal newcomers entering the country without a sufficiently thorough vetting process?

In the past three years, have you released any crime statistics highlighting spikes in robberies or violent attacks, particularly among certain racial categories, following the 2020 Antifa/BLM riots?

Did you cite crime mitigation policies (such as the elimination of cash bail) aimed at reducing the percentage of incarcerated populations of specific demographic groups as a potential factor contributing to skyrocketing recidivism rates? , to the increase in drug use and to the general deterioration of the status of the inner cities of the United States?

Did you answer yes to any of the above questions? If so, you have been found guilty of disseminating dangerous and inflammatory information that could incite racially motivated crimes. Please prepare for an extended stay in the state’s burgeoning gulag system to re-educate people with a chronic illness of misinformation.

Fortunately, this type of investigation is not yet a common occurrence in the United States.

But the attempt to narrow the boundaries of acceptable speech to an ever-narrowing prism of regime-sanctioned narratives by force of law aims to get us there as quickly as possible.

Rep. Sheila Lee Jacksons (D-Texas) proposal to fight white supremacy is about as blatant an attempt as we’ve seen recently to sow greater racial division in pursuit of political gain.

Signs are seen on a bench during a rally against ‘Critical Race Theory’ (CRT) taught in Loudoun County Government Center schools in Leesburg, Virginia on June 12, 2021. (Andrew Cabellero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

The Leading Against White Supremacy Act of 2023 aims to prevent and prosecute hate crimes inspired by white supremacy and conspiracies to commit hate crimes inspired by white supremacy. The conspiracy section means that a person who posts material that promotes white supremacy, white supremacy ideology, replacement theory-based antagonism or hate speech that defames or is otherwise directed against a non-white person or group could be prosecuted whether or not they actually commit (or attempt to commit) a violent crime. All that is required is that someone else, even if they have no real connection to this person, having never spoken, met or heard of them, engages in an act qualified as a hate crime.

There are so many ethically wrong and fundamentally un-American things in this bill that it’s hard to know where to start.

Let’s start with the obvious attempt to shut down news sources that deny systemic or institutionalized racism as a core concept of the United States. It’s not just for anonymous posters on the internet. Specifically in the crosshairs would be such pervasive personalities as Tucker Carlson (the most-watched show on cable news) and Ben Shapiro (one of the nation’s most popular podcasts). But don’t take my word for it. This analysis comes straight from The Root, an online magazine titled Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude, in which the attitude appears to come from a specific (left) angle.

But what about the average American who shares some of the same opinions on Twitter or Facebook? If their words were found to have played a role in another individual becoming involved in white supremacy, it appears that they too could be held accountable for the resulting actions and subsequently face criminal charges.

It’s what you might call a thought crime.

The First Amendment enshrines freedom of speech in this country and is the foundation of the constitutional republicanism that is supposed to be the guiding principle of our regime. You can share your opinion, no matter how distasteful, offensive or downright stupid it may be. Being tried for contempt of public relations court does not equate to a warrant to prosecute you in the US court system.

However, what is more concerning for the bill under consideration is not so much whether an individual has the right to speak, but rather what kind of speech, in particular, it is trying to ban.

What our regime defines as hate is essentially anything that does not meet the standards of the current political narrative. In the latter case, the United States is an endemically racist country that is also ravaged by homophobia, transphobia, climate change denial, anti-science sentiment, and just about every other left-wing bugaboo you can think of. to think. To deny that a man can be a woman, a statement that just 10 years ago would not have been considered controversial, is now hate. Refusing to condone double mastectomies or teenage castration as gender-affirming care is also hate.

To white supremacy? We have seen statements from mainstream media, prominent politicians, and even the White House about how non-race actions such as questioning the integrity of elections, refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and refusing to wear a mask properly or social distancing are all inextricably linked to white racism.

People march during a protest against the COVID-19 vaccine mandate in New York City on Oct. 4, 2021. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

We know that the slippery slope argument is the most validated concept there is. Totalitarian government control almost never occurs through unqualified attacks on personal sovereignty. What seems reasonable at first progresses exponentially until we see blatant attempts at top-down authoritarian mandates.

One of the most alarming features of Bill Lees is that it specifically targets a white demographic, implying that only white people can even be guilty of hate. The intention is to harvest and mobilize social unrest around the deteriorating situation in neighborhoods, communities, cities, states and the country. As failed policy exacerbates a downward spiral, one specific identity group becomes the target of all public anger and is scapegoated as the source of all trouble.

Around the same time Lee was proposing his bill, European Commission Vice President Vra Jourov said the importance of controlling public speech during a conversation at the World Economic Forum meeting in this year in Davos. Sitting next to former CNN personality Brian Stelter, she happily predicted illegal hate speech, which you will soon have in the United States as well. I think we have a good reason why we have this in the criminal law.

How long before questioning vaccines is hate speech? Or doubt the science around climate change?

White supremacy is the cudgel the American regime uses to subjugate us. Anti-white hatred in the United States is an effective rallying tool to secure support from the left-progressive grassroots as the government continues to suppress constitutional rights in an imitation of Europe.

The regime will continue to tighten its grip on narrative control as our domestic situation inevitably deteriorates due to incompetent leadership and leftist ideology. Bill Lees is unlikely to pass the Republican-controlled House, but anti-white sentiment is here to stay.

In conclusion, one wonders if this article in itself could be used to prosecute me under Lee’s proposed bill.

The opinions expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Epoch Times.

Dominick Sansone is a doctoral student at Hillsdale College Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship. He is a regular contributor to The Epoch Times and has also been published in The American Conservative, The Federalist, and The Washington Examiner.

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