A bonus point that ended up on the cutting room floor as I finalized the article:
The Pulse mythology is part of a broader phenomenon in which violence directed against anyone from a given community is assumed to motivated by the victims’ membership in that community.
Another towering example of such a misplaced assumption centers on the March 2021 shootings at three Atlanta massage parlors. It's still held out as "anti-Asian violence," even though it's clear the ethnicity of the victims merely coincided with the Asian domination of the massage parlor businesses the killer had patronized before lashing out at them.
As Kenneth Vinther pointed out in his review of Scott Howard’s The Transgender-Industrial Complex (2020) at Counter Currents, transgenderism is a thoroughly kosher campaign: “at the top of the [transgender] pyramid rests a series of charming Jewish billionaires...”
In this case, they are compelling known falsehood: but presumably not "mis-, dis-, or mal-information" because it supports an approved even if factually discredited narrative.
In this case, the defendant was on trial for something else. But you will risk state punishment if you do not support the narrative, and as part of your punishment and rehabilitation, you will both express support for and self-internalize the narrative.
Don't stop me if you've heard this one before:
"But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."
<sarcasm-warning>
See? That's your problem, Coco Shevitz. You're internally conflicted. You're feeling a lack of love. Everything would be alright if you could only FEEL THE LOVE.
Interesting, though just one state appeals court. Seems like the kind of issue that one could remove to the federal courts based on federal question jurisdiction, maybe even something the USSC would grant cert for given that protection against government compelled speech is a core first amendment concern.
Yes, the judge's words relating the Pulse attack assignment to Jerich's burnout imply that Jerich was "hateful and lashing out against the gay community." That may be the case, as a witness claimed he was responding to someone who yelled, "Adam, tear up that gay intersection." (Though his name is Alexander.)
Then again, to your point, his quite lengthy burnout (see video linked from the photo caption) may have been more a stupid act of aggression against liberal cultural imagery in general.
Note that, since the mural is based on the "Progress Pride flag," the judge could have assumed he is a racist and chosen an entirely different essay topic.
❝. . . the (((Daily Wire))) with Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin . . .
The Rubin Report is supposedly ‘an opponent of identity politics’, although Rubin ‘identifies with the libertardian/classical liberal wing of contemporary right-of-center political thought’. Rubin is really a Jewish homosexual activist married to another man and adopted a child, that’s his real identity . . . a ‘Jewish Pioneer of Sexual Degeneracy.’ ❞
A bonus point that ended up on the cutting room floor as I finalized the article:
The Pulse mythology is part of a broader phenomenon in which violence directed against anyone from a given community is assumed to motivated by the victims’ membership in that community.
Another towering example of such a misplaced assumption centers on the March 2021 shootings at three Atlanta massage parlors. It's still held out as "anti-Asian violence," even though it's clear the ethnicity of the victims merely coincided with the Asian domination of the massage parlor businesses the killer had patronized before lashing out at them.
As Kenneth Vinther pointed out in his review of Scott Howard’s The Transgender-Industrial Complex (2020) at Counter Currents, transgenderism is a thoroughly kosher campaign: “at the top of the [transgender] pyramid rests a series of charming Jewish billionaires...”
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2022/03/25/jewish-loot-and-neglected-fruit-how-the-mainstream-right-serves-jews-and-betrays-whites/
Romans go home!
First Amendment case here? Pretty sure the government can’t compel speech
In this case, they are compelling known falsehood: but presumably not "mis-, dis-, or mal-information" because it supports an approved even if factually discredited narrative.
In this case, the defendant was on trial for something else. But you will risk state punishment if you do not support the narrative, and as part of your punishment and rehabilitation, you will both express support for and self-internalize the narrative.
Don't stop me if you've heard this one before:
"But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."
<sarcasm-warning>
See? That's your problem, Coco Shevitz. You're internally conflicted. You're feeling a lack of love. Everything would be alright if you could only FEEL THE LOVE.
</sarcasm-warning>
It's an interesting question. Check out this case where a North Carolina appeals court upheld a judge's order to write not only write an essay that met the judge's approval, but to "post the essay on social media throughout his probation period, and delete any negative comments about the essay made by defendant or third parties." https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/post/422/judge-s-order-for-essay-on-respect-for-court-system-upheld-with-dissent-arguing-first-amendment
Interesting, though just one state appeals court. Seems like the kind of issue that one could remove to the federal courts based on federal question jurisdiction, maybe even something the USSC would grant cert for given that protection against government compelled speech is a core first amendment concern.
Yes, the judge's words relating the Pulse attack assignment to Jerich's burnout imply that Jerich was "hateful and lashing out against the gay community." That may be the case, as a witness claimed he was responding to someone who yelled, "Adam, tear up that gay intersection." (Though his name is Alexander.)
Then again, to your point, his quite lengthy burnout (see video linked from the photo caption) may have been more a stupid act of aggression against liberal cultural imagery in general.
Note that, since the mural is based on the "Progress Pride flag," the judge could have assumed he is a racist and chosen an entirely different essay topic.
❝. . . the (((Daily Wire))) with Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin . . .
The Rubin Report is supposedly ‘an opponent of identity politics’, although Rubin ‘identifies with the libertardian/classical liberal wing of contemporary right-of-center political thought’. Rubin is really a Jewish homosexual activist married to another man and adopted a child, that’s his real identity . . . a ‘Jewish Pioneer of Sexual Degeneracy.’ ❞
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/how-the-grift-right-gimps-for-the