Capturing the police for progressivism

Vincent J. Curtis

27 Apr 21

RE: Combatting hate a top priority for next police chief

It is often remarked that everything in the U.K. is policed except crime.  That’s because the police there spend an inordinate amount of time policing thought and speech - when they aren’t oppressing the civil rights of ordinary Britons in other ways.  Tradition crime is rising because police aren’t paying attention to it.  Their minds are elsewhere.

Looks like the same is coming to Hamilton.  The call is for the next chief to prioritize hate crime and to eliminate racism and racist from the police force.  (The suggestion by the Mayor and Chairman of the Police Commission that racism is a problem on the Hamilton Police force, I’m sure, is just great for the morale of the force.  Members of the force today were all born after the civil rights crisis of the 1960s in the U.S.  The evils of racism were driven into them from childhood, yet it is maintained that they are racists and stained with “white supremacism.”  You can’t win.)

Hate crimes are few in Hamilton, and thelarge plurality of them occur against Jews.  But it is hate crime allegedly committed against the BIPOC and the LGBTQ+ communities that are the focus of the hate crime suppression campaign.  The progressive nature of the victimology here was emphasized when Mayor Fred Eisenberger pointed to protests “engineered by hate groups” and the need of the chief to be “alive to issues of racism in the city.”

In other words, particular groups are to be targeted for police thuggery, but not others.  Hamilton police is to become the P.C. police.

I happen to believe that BLM is a hate group; they hate humanity.  The professional LGBTQ+ community hates the society that they are different from.  But because of clever virtue signalling, BLM and LGBTQ+ are high on the victimhood hierarchy.  I’m sure the Muslims are there somewhere, but the Jews, the most common victim of real hate crime, are nowhere.

If the new chief is a true believer, crime can only go up, as it is in America and the U.K.  Having failed to defund the police, the next turn is to convert the police into the muscle of progressivism.

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