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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bowman, James

Titel

Pieces of hate

Ist Teil von

• The New Criterion, 2024, Vol.42 (9), p.52-II

Ort / Verlag

New York: Foundation for Cultural Review

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• According to USA Today/Suffolk University polling, these plagueon-both-your-houses types number between 15 and 20 percent of the electorate. The evil of the legislation, however, is not so much that it might occasionally result in an actual prosecution for thoughtcrime; rather it is that the mere say-so of a nosy or vindictive neighbor can land you on a list kept by Police Scotland of "non-crime hate incidents"-a list that can be consulted by prospective employers or anybody else with an interest in seeking out those who are thus officially branded as wrongthinkers. Kathleen Stock writes for UnHerd: Also accompanying the introduction of the Act has been an infantilising and much-derided publicity campaign, featuring a ginger "Hate Monster" strongly reminiscent of a Sesame Street character, and who is supposed to represent "that feeling some people get when they are frustrated and angry and take it out on others, because they feel like they need to show that they are better than them. Andrew Marantz gave it a nearly five-thousand-word review in The New Torker that never mentioned the absurdity of the whole enterprise as suggested by the book's titular question.