Stirring Up More Hatred

I think they’ve been putting something in the haggis up north. What’s happened to Scotland?

I’ve always had a huge amount of respect for the Scots.

The most fearsome fighting machine in the world at the time, the Romans, conquered all.

Except Scotland.

They got there and, upon meeting the Scottish people for the first time, said in their finest latin, “Fuckus meus, Marcus, we need to build a wall to keep these fuckeriums out”.

Yes, the meanest, leanest, most effective fighting force the world had ever seen was frightened of the Scots.

You’ve just got to love a people who can bring an entire empire to a halt.

OK, so my appreciation and interpretation of history may not be the most authoritative (or accurate) you’ll ever read, but it’s the version I like best and so I’m sticking with it.

Today, it’s all gone a bit like this (2m 20s) :

Clearly, there are still people left in the BBC with a sense of humour when it comes to current ‘cultural’ sensitivities and wokeish.

The sketch is 3 years old - so not quite old enough to be put on puberty blockers yet.

As is usual for these kinds of things, it isn’t the majority of the folk in Scotland who are the problem - they’re as awesome as they ever were. It’s the idiots at the top who claim to be running the (shit)show who pander to some unrepresentative minority.

As we all know, the Scottish Nut Party (the SNP) who are currently in power has brought about legislation on “hate” speech which passed into law on April Fools’ Day. It seems to have been drafted by a particularly imbecilic bunch of one-armed monkeys suffering from some kind of palsy using typewriters missing half of their keys.

Quite apart from the usual problem of defining what “hate” is in any way that can be described as ‘barely adequate’, a minimal standard the legislation misses by a mile, they introduce a new offence of “stirring” up this undefinable stuff.

I’ve been accused of stirring up hatred before, but that’s when I’ve invited people over to sample some of my experimental cooking.

So, we have this undefinable stuff, and if we do the equally undefinable process of stirring it up, we can land ourselves in jail for 7 years. I say ‘we’, but I’m in England at the moment. The problem is that in a short while the UK government will be Labour and they love all of this kind of stuff - so something very similar will probably be introduced UK wide.

As is common for the various execrable forms of these kinds of bills, and they’re all execrable, is that what constitutes hate depends primarily on whether the ‘victim’ merely perceives they have been on the receiving end of it.

Once again, as with ‘gender’ self-ID, the internal fantasy world of an individual is set on a pedestal.

Some have commented that the set of people who you can’t hate in this bill does not include women. Obviously it doesn’t include straight white men - it’s perfectly reasonable, almost a requirement, that we hate those.

Well, hold my bottle of McEwan’s Champion Ale.

They are, apparently, introducing a new hate crime of misogyny.

Just peachy. This is just what we need.

We’re not even going to be able to properly talk about the weather soon in the UK. If the green morons get their way it will be yet another hate crime not to talk about Officially Sanctioned Climate Narratives™ when mentioning the fact that it’s raining.

Obviously this new misogyny bill is very necessary to combat the appalling oppression of women who never get any kind of legislation going their way, or special government ministers and departments, in our wicked uber patriarchal western world. It’s important that we jail every man who asks a woman for their number, the vile scum. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world, there are men who wonder what a woman needs a clitoris for anyway, not to mention any kind of education.

But it gets worse. The SNP’s head honcho, Humdinger Yousuck, has said that, yes, this new misogyny legislation is going to apply to transwomen too.

Work that one out.

Did I stir up that hatred in a misogynistic way or a phanstrobic way? Or was it a bit of both? And exactly how much of it did I stir up? Worth a full 7 years’ worth of jail time?And does this mean that Scotland is going to adopt the position, by default, that transwomen are women?

The best legal defence will clearly be for any accused of misogyny to claim they were identifying as a woman at the time and so they cannot be accused of such a hideous hate crime.

Perhaps that’s the answer. Everyone in Scotland should just identify as a woman.

The idea of a “hate crime” should be removed from legislation anyway. You hit me with a hammer in a particularly hateful way and so you should get extra jail time?

But hate speech? What da McFuck is that?

I have no idea - and nor does any legislator. It’s another of those undefinable ideas that sound good to a certain mindset on paper.

In the past when legal terms have a certain vagary they’ve relied on the concept of a “reasonable person”. If it can be argued that a “reasonable person” would find something offensive, then whatever you’ve said IS offensive - that sort of thing. What the law finds ‘reasonable’ however, and what actual, real, people find reasonable seems to have diverged somewhat, in the last few years.

It’s going to be chaos.

It already is, with Scottish Police having had to deal with thousands of new complaints since the introduction of the bill.

Welcome to the New McWorld Order.