Let’s take a look at the Scottish news. Because at the rate at which ideas circulate today, especially the worst ones, the strange debate which Scotland is going through at the moment should worry us.
Hatred
Humza Yousaf is the Scottish Minister for Justice. And he has embarked on a fight against “hate speech” by proposing a very ambitious bill, the “ Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill “.
We know that any critique of progressive ideology has the potential to fall under the category of hate speech. Nothing is more free today than accusations of racism, sexism, Islamophobia or transphobia.
With this in mind, Humza Yousaf intends to control private conversations in homes.
His theory?
Why should anything that is forbidden in the gallery, restaurant or pub be allowed in a private home?
Shouldn’t virtue reign everywhere? The new inquisition, to be effective, must it not enter homes? The home is no longer sacred.
Humza Yousaf thus intends to create the conditions for a generalized denunciation of private conversations which could offend the sensibilities of groups deemed to be minority by the dominant ideology.
You do not reproduce in your private conversations the orthodoxy of the regime? We can denounce you.
Stasi
Be afraid of your guests who might misreport your words if they misunderstand, distort, or dislike them.
Fear your children socialized in a school system which pushes to see microaggressions everywhere.
In the name of the fight against hatred, we will even come to hunt down ulterior motives. It is already being done in the business world, through the famous implicit association tests which claim to detect your unconscious prejudices.
It’s all reminiscent of East Germany and the Stasi. I do not think I am exaggerating in saying that. The fight against “hate speech” is the new mask of totalitarianism.