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It needs to radicalize people. This is the beginning of tyranny.

I wouldn't say it's the beginning. There's nothing new about it. Apparently the police have recorded over 100000 incidents of 'non-crime hate crimes'.

I like Andrew Doyle quote on this:

> In this new woke era, our law enforcement agencies are not content to police crime, but also non-crime. This is a huge relief, because for a long while now too many citizens have been not breaking the law and getting away with it.

> the police have recorded over 100000 incidents

I just think it's worth rebutting, that the police are not combing twitter for anything borderline.

These are complaints that the public are making to the police. There is a relevant law about malicious comms, so the police are obliged to open a case.

> this new woke era

Give me a break. Members of the public are taxed to provide a police service. If they feel like they're a victim of malicious communications, they're allowed to go to the police. Nothing to do with being "content to police non-crime" or being "woke".

>These are complaints that the public are making to the police. There is a relevant law about malicious comms, so the police are obliged to open a case.

>Give me a break. Members of the public are taxed to provide a police service. If they feel like they're a victim of malicious communications, they're allowed to go to the police. Nothing to do with being "content to police non-crime" or being "woke".

And you act as though that's a good thing?

100k people going through the work of reporting what is likely mostly unfunny boomer memes and thinly veiled trolling is a much stronger indictment of the current state of affairs than 100k instances of bored cops going looking for violations of some broad law from the comfort of their desks.

You don't know that at all. For all you know, 99% are legitimate targeted harassment or part of a larger course of offending behaviour. It's snap uninformed judgements like yours that are the problem, imo

I might not know but it seems like a very fair default assumption given the history of anti-nuisance laws in meatspace.

Police were already enforcing non-crime for a long time. They get called when there are black and brown people in spaces that makes the neighbors nervous. I don’t think police being used as an enforcement mechanism for non-crimes should be critiqued as if it’s a new phenomenon. It’s old and it sucks and it should be critiqued on that.

Non-hate hate crimes are the latest cause celebre of the GBNews lot. It's their latest grift and HN would do well to see past it.

I don't agree with being harassed by the police over something that's literally not a crime.

But I'm not sure why GBNews would be grifting with it. Conservatives have been in power in the UK for 12 years now and they've done nothing about it.

I don't know if radicalization is the right word or the process that should be happening, but there is something important to note here:

The radicalization that happens in circles like the one that image comes from, in addition to or instead of the one (I hope) you mean, is not one against undemocratic practices, abuse of power etc. It is one against people who are trans (or queer in general). And that radicalization does harm. It leads to shame and discrimination. It leads to violence. And yes, it _kills_.

Please make sure you (and others) know what radicalization you mean, and make sure that the one that is happening is correct.

The problem in this case is that the people it's radicalizing are transphobic assholes. I wish someone who didn't suck was responsible for poking at this terrible law.

I would say that tyranny has already begun, we are long past its beginning. It has been a slow creep.

It's as if the standards of what is and what is not acceptable are slowly shifting...

Touché. Would that not mean in acceptance of the tyranny? I think a large segment of the American public sees that something is wrong, and that the creep has become too much. If anything that might be our saving grace, so I hope we are not trapped in an Overton window.

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