Ebony Dickens

Source: East Point, Georgia Police Department

THE EVER-EXPANDING DEFINITION OF “€œHATE SPEECH”€
A Nashville gas station is being accused of fomenting “hate speech” by featuring the following digital messages on signs below the price of gas:

CLOSED ON SUNDAYS SO WE CAN PREP FOR THE CRUSADE

SEVEN YEARS OF OBAMA AND WE CAN’T FIGURE OUT WHICH RESTROOM TO USE

Complainants argued that since we are supposed to be a tolerant and inclusive society, we should neither tolerate nor include such messages in our society.

“Hate speech””€”and the alarmingly prevalent notion among militant trannies that it constitutes literal “violence””€”was apparently committed by historian Daniel Harris in The Antioch Review when he dared to criticize some of the transgender movement’s tactics such as obsessing over pronouns. Despite the fact that the author was openly sympathetic to their delusional cause, a joint statement by nearly 4,000 writers and editors condemned the article as transphobic hate speech that deserved to be stomped into extinction:

The layers of not only complicity but endorsement that this dehumanizing article passed through is astounding. As members of the literary community, we refuse to be silent in the face of transphobia in our midst, which we understand to be related to the many individual and structural incidents of racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, and other violences large and small experienced by members of our community.

We honestly didn’t want to, but we’re really starting to hate you people. Congratulations”€”you got what you wanted all along.

THE BIGOTED TREES OF YELLOWSTONE
A “coalition of minority groups” is calling upon the federal government to help make its National Park system more “inclusive” toward minorities. Although their official list of recommendations does not cite any extant legal barriers to nonwhites visiting America’s National Parks, nor of any incidents of minorities being beaten or lynched at National Parks, they insist that institutional racism has caused lingering trauma for African Americans which apparently makes them terrified of breathtaking scenery.

Failed actress and failed academic Carolyn Finney is now a diversity advisor to the US National Parks Advisory Board, which is actually a real job paid for with real dollars extorted from real citizens. In her book Black Faces, White Spaces, she writes:

…oppression and violence against black people in forests and other green spaces can translate into contemporary understandings that constrain African-American environmental understandings.

If you say so.

Finney gets to the root of why minorities tend to stay away from National Parks:

Black people also wanted to go out in the woods and eat apples from the trees….But black people were lynched on the trees. The tree became a big symbol.

Mickey Fearn, who’s also black and has served as the National Park Service Deputy Director for Communications and Community Assistance”€”which sounds like an absolutely essential government position, especially considering the $20 trillion public debt”€”agrees with Finney:

African American people feel safe in cities and less safe in nature….Preserving wild places is a white concept, going back to Rome.

We stand corrected. We were always taught it was the gentle primitive hunter-gatherers who peacefully coexisted with the land while white people were the true despoilers of Eden. You learn something new every day.