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Scotland's Dystopian Censorship Law Backfires On First Minister · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  So Scotland has a brand new dystopian censorship law, and I guess the launch
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  hasn't gone quite as well as they'd hoped. Here's the headline, Scottish First
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  Minister defends hate crime law, citizens use it to report him. Yeah,
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  before we get into this, let's take a look at the law itself very
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  quickly. So here we have legislation dot gov dot UK Hate Crime and Public
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  Order Scotland Act twenty twenty one. So it's been in the works for a
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  few years and it was just enacted on April first. So it says here
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  a person commits an offense if the person behaves in a manner that a reasonable
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  person would consider to be threatening, abusive, or insulting. And I'm gonna
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  go ahead and guess that the definition of reasonable person is not what you would
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  consider to be reasonable. Both continue communicates to another person material that a reasonable
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  person would consider to be threatening, abusive, or in resulting, and either
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  in doing so, the person intends to stir up hatred against a group of
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  persons based on the group being defined by reference to race, color, nationality,
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  including citizenship, or ethnic or national origins, or a reasonable person would
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  consider the behavior or the communication of the material to be likely to result in
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  hatred being stirred up against such a group. So a reasonable person is going
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  to decide whether or not something you've said or written is likely to result in
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  hatred, Not that it has resulted in it, but it's likely too.
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  Now, there's other characteristics that are protected here too, age, disability,
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  religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity, specifically variations in sex characteristics. I
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  don't know what that is. Maybe if you've got a third nipple. Now,
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  I'm sure the Scots will find this comforting. A person's behavior includes behavior
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  of any kind, any kind, and in particular, things that the person
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  says or otherwise communicates, as well as things the person does. But it's
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  behavior of any kind, okay, that seems awfully broad. May consist of
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  a single act or a course of conduct. Let's see. The ways in
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  which a person may communicate material to another person are by displaying, publishing,
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  or distributing the material. So displaying where in your house that would seem to
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  be included in the behavior of any kind, part giving, sending, showing,
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  or playing the material to another person. Again, just in your house.
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  Apparently it means in your house, making the material available to another person
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  in any other way. Again, this means literally anywhere, anytime in your
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  house, one of the telescreens going up on the wall so the big brother
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  can watch it. Twenty four to seven. Maybe that's part of Agenda twenty
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  thirty, but this also would include a play, a song you wrote,
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  and just literally anything that some far leftist is going to find offensive. Now,
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  what's your punishment if a reasonable person thinks that you're guilty, Well,
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  a term not exceeding seven years or a fine or both. So up to
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  seven years in prison plus a fine. I'm guessing it's going to be a
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  large fine. Let's go back up to here for a second. It says
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  stirring up hatred against a group of persons based on the group being defined by
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  reference to race. And then let's go back here again. Scottish First Minister
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  defends hate crime law. Citizens use it to report him. Well, why
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  would they be reporting him? What could he have possibly said? The Lord
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  Justice Clark White, every High Court Judge White, the Lord Advocate White,
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  this Luster General White, the Chief Constable White, every Deputy Chief Constable White,
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  every Assistant Chief Constable White, the head of the Law society white,
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  the head of the Faculty of Advocates white, every present governor white, and
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  not just Justice, the chief medical officer white, the chief nursing officer.
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  Yeah, it goes on like that, with him apparently enraged by the fact
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  that Scotland is full of Scots and you hear that how he's like wit,
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  it's like an accusation. This feels like hate to me. Well, apparently
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  that brought in four thousand complaints against him in his own law. But before
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  he start celebrating, Yeah, this law was never going to be used against
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  him. That's not who it's intended for. These laws only go one way.
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  We know that at this point, don't we. Scottish police responded to
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  the large number of complaints, telling the BBC that they had already looked into
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  Yusuf's comments back in twenty twenty and had determined that there was nothing criminal about
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  what he said. Now, they also confirmed that the new law would not
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  be implemented retroactively. And I guess the Scottish people will have to find out
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  how true that is. But even if he'd said it on April first,
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  it wouldn't matter. The laws not for him, these censorship laws only get
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  enforced one way, and we know which way that is now. JK Rowling
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  wanted to start things up a little bit, so on April first, she
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  published a long thread here featuring a bunch of trans women. And jk Rowling
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  has of course been very vocal about having biological males in women's spaces, in
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  women's prisons, that sort of thing. She doesn't like it, and she's
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  been attacked relentlessly by activists because of that. But she posted some little write
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  ups on some very unsavory characters who seem to have had a late life conversion
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  after they were convicted of horrible crimes. And then you know some more like
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  dainty lasses like this just a man playing women's sports, not even try.
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  I mean, there's no effort there whatsoever. Here's a un Women UK delegate
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  apparently she switched from straight man to lesbian at the age of forty eight and
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  now un Women UK delegate don't make elica sense to me and shaned it with
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  only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren't women at
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  all, but men, every last one of them. In passing the Scottish
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  Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings
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  of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, then on
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  the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls, and shans it with.
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  I'm currently out of the country, but if what I've written here qualifies as
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  an offense under the terms of the new Act, I look forward to being
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  arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment. So she's daring
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  them to arrest her, and I'm sure there are baying mobs of activists who
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  would love to have her arrested and thrown in Joe for seven years or for
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  life, maybe maybe stone to death. But that's not going to happen because
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  the law is not really even for her. Police not pressing charges after JK.
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  Rowling dares them to arrest her for challenging hate speech law. And I'm
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  glad that she did this, and it's important that she did this, but
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  she was never going to get arrested. It's not for her, it's not
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  for humsy yusuf, it's for regular people. It's for the everyman. It's
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  to keep them silent, it's to keep them from speaking truth to power.
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  It's to keep them from accurately describing the reality around them, and it's something
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  that sane people around the Western world will recognize. In Canada, Justin Trudeau's
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  trying to push is insane censorship Bill C sixty three, which actually threatens a
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  life sentence for hate speech crimes, as well as other various dystopian remedies for
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  online harms so called online harms. I've made a number of videos about that,
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  which you can check out if you subscribe to my channel. But anyway,
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  that's all I gotta say about that. Please like, share and subscribe.
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