Getting Ready To Mint Another “Berg’s Law”

And if I do, it’s going to read “All claims of racist “hate speech” not delivered face to face by someone proven not to be a ringer should be presumed hoaxes until proven otherwise”.

Because when I got the first word of this “attack”, the first thing that crossed my mind was “No way, just no way, that that actually happened”.

I was right. I’m almost always right

Let me be clear (because liberals have a hard time arguing with anything but straw men, so a conservative must always straw-proof their argument) – any actual hate speech needs to be met by overwhelming opposition, as well as any rules that apply (and don’t violate everyone’s free speech rights).

It’s just that it’s so very hard to find such an episode that isn’t a hoax perpetrated by social justice weasels looking for a headline.

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May 11, 2017

Progressive Tyranny, Social Justice!, Urban Progressive Privilege

Mitch Berg

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17 responses to “Getting Ready To Mint Another “Berg’s Law””

The Big Stink

May 11, 2017

I don’t know if they teach this at the Cop Academy, but anytime a racist incident happens, the first suspect should always be the alleged victim. After all, the aggrieved has the most to gain.
Tony Petroski

May 11, 2017

Mr. Berg. Go ahead and mint your new Berg’s Law. It’s good as gold.

Who woulda thunk that those Lutherans down in Northfield wanted to re-institute slavery? Where’s Garrison Keilor on this? Has anyone shoved a microphone in his face demanding that he denounce St. Olaf’s? And what of Carlton? Do you think Wellstone’s old stomping grounds is free of racial hatred? Think again.

After you mint the new law, add a corollary: It’s so much fun watching the chickens come home to roost.

Definition of Social Justice: Favoring people who have never been slaves over people who have never been slaveowners. The street translation of that definition is “two wrongs make a right.”

How long can that last? I think much of the agitation on campuses is the certainty the the social-justice era is tottering and it’s threatening the careers of thousands even as a few like me are making new demands: Equal treatment for all, end segregation by all, full integration now!

Stumbling down the affirmative-action path was the worst mistake made in the sixties–worse than Vietnam.
Alt-Good Swiftee

May 11, 2017

From the link:

“On April 29, St. Olaf senior Samantha Wells, who is black, posted images on social media of a threatening note she said she had found on her windshield. Wells was a featured speaker at campus rallies this month, tearfully relaying the discovery of the note and how unsafe it made her feel on campus.

Anderson said Wednesday that a student was responsible for the fake threat, but “federal privacy laws prohibit the college from disclosing the identity of the author of that note and disclosing the actions taken by the college now that we know the author’s identity.”

“With Wells bowing out, police have closed the case. The case file points out that police did not see the anonymous typewritten note because Wells “took [it] outside and had a ‘ceremonial’ burning to destroy it.”

Wells said she destroyed the note “because she didn’t want to look at it or have it anywhere near her,” according to the file.”

Couple things to consider here.

1. Reprobate leftists have succeeded in making thoughts a crime in and of itself, worthy of penalty enhancement.

“Harassment” means conduct which one “knows or has reason to know would cause the victim under the circumstances to feel frightened, threatened, oppressed, persecuted, or intimidated, and causes this reaction on the part of the victim.” (Minn. Stat. § 609.749, subd. 1.) It is a gross misdemeanor to harass another by such actions as illegally intending to injure the person, property, or rights of another; stalking, following, or pursuing another; returning to another’s property without consent; or repeated harassing phone calls or mail. (Minn. Stat. § 609.749, subd.2). However, harassing another because of that person’s gender, race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation converts this gross misdemeanor into a felony. (Minn. Stat. § 609.749, subd.3.)

There are undoubtedly white students, faculty, and community members that are aware of the tactic of reverse discrimination being employed by leftists and Negro agitators. These tactics include hundreds of documented cases of false flag hate crimes and leave the white community feeling “violated, frightened, threatened, oppressed, persecuted, and intimidated”.

This case clearly meets the standard of stalking as hate crime.

Why are charges not being brought against this race baiting, future hemorrhoid on society?

2. How is it the Dean, the police and the Star Trib completely ignored the obvious red flag when the perp burned the evidence? You’re damn right she “didn’t want it around her”….her neck.

3. Where is the apology from St. Olaf’s administrators? Their campus has elements running around fomenting hatred and division. They have failed in their duty to teach their students to be good citizens, and are clearly turning liars and reprobates out to further outrage and damage American society.
TheFedSucks

May 11, 2017

For the record, IMO, there really is something to the concept of ***intergenerational*** ***trauma***. They know this from studying epigenetics in holocaust survivor families. Government / Democrat policy just makes it worse, though. If you don’t have a growing economy with disbursed prosperity, and a good education system, it’s going to destroy poor people’s human capital, compounding every year. Then you get the teacher’s unions asking for schools to be turned into full service kibbutzes without it seeming shocking to anyone.
Loren

May 11, 2017

I wonder if those same federal privacy laws would keep the name of some suspect private if this had not been a hoax?
reader15

May 11, 2017

Colleges will probably always take anonymous “racist attacks” as seriously as they take vague bomb threats. For administrators it’s easy to err on the “safe” side. Well all that and a deputy assistant dean gets his wings every time a lockdown is declared.
Night Writer

May 11, 2017

I’d think that a hoax of this nature would qualify as a “hate crime”. If, you know, there actually was such a thing as a hate crime.
Seflores

May 11, 2017

Like you MBerg, my first thought was that this was a hoax crime.
Couple decades ago, there was a similar series of incidents (racist messages & graffiti, nooses made out of twine) at Miami University in Oxford, OH (Speaker Paul Ryan’s alma mater). Miami, like St Olaf, has a small percentage students who are, to use a current phrase, people of color. The Black Student Association there had protests, walk outs and blocked US Hwy 27 the only thoroughfare through town (one of the reasons I remember this so well is that I was personally caught up in the traffic jam) to confront university administrators regarding their ‘lack of action’ as well as to present them with a list of demands.
The then US Attorney for Southwest Ohio was a woman, who was African American and a Clinton appointee. Numerous press conferences were held where she and university administrators claimed the perpetrators of these hate crimes would face lengthy prison time in a Federal pen and the demands of the protesters will not only get a full hearing, but will be implemented soon after our investigation is complete.
You know the rest of the story. College kids, regardless of color, are dumb, and also cheap. The investigators found the spray paint in the head of the Black Student Associations room (no sense throwing away half a can of red spray paint, that stuff is expensive) as well as matched another Black Student Association members handwriting to the racist notes. The two confessed. They were simply ‘trying to start a conversation’.
The US Attorney had no more press conferences regarding the issue and only right wing radio asked why the two perps weren’t punished by being sent to the Federal pen. Can’t punish someone for ‘trying to start a conversation’ apparently.
bikebubba

May 11, 2017

I dare suggest that if indeed Miss Wells is the perpetrator, as seems consistent with what we know, expulsion–and the prospect of her (or whoever the perp was) ending up as a Wal-Mart greeter with 100 large in debt–seems like a good option. I’m getting seriously tired of the slanders inherent in these little stunts.
Mammuthus Primigenius

May 11, 2017

. . . any actual hate speech needs to be met by overwhelming opposition
No.
The Left is not actually against “hate speech.” Their hate speech targets the right, and will always be allowed.
I’ve read “The Handmaid’s Tale.” I’ve also read “The Turner Diaries.”
If one is hate speech, so is the other.
justplainangry

May 11, 2017

For all their aversion to godliness, am I the only one who thinks what the leftist reprobates are doing now is akin to inquisition? Someone is labeled a heretic and then Torquemsnbs goes on to inquis said heretic into submission.
Joe Doakes

May 11, 2017

The more time and money they spend combating racism that doesn’t exist, the less time they have to combat the pervasive chemical threat posed by Dihydrogen Monoxide:

http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html

Okay, yes, that’s a hoax, too. So? If the administration is willing to hand out favors to buy off student protesting hoax threats, what makes your hoax more deserving than mine?
Alt-Good Swiftee

May 11, 2017

Night Writer +1
bikebubba

May 11, 2017

JPA, you of all people should know from observation and perhaps experience that if you want an inquisition or kangaroo court done right, the best people are the godless. No?
Night Writer

May 11, 2017

BUbba – the most effective operatives are those who are convinced they will not be held to account in this life, or the next.
Ian in Iowa

May 11, 2017

Part of the problem is that I don’t think schools are teaching students to think critically anymore. To the leftists, accusations equal proof, and someone they don’t like is automatically guilty of any accusations, regardless of dearth of evidence (*cough* Emery *cough*).

A few years ago, a woman that worked for another division of my employer accused someone of spray-painting her garage door with racial ephitets. She further claimed that it was one or more of her co-workers who’d perpetrated the act.

That was enough for a co-worker of mine at my division to post a printout of the article about the incident from the local newspaper on the break room bulletin board, along with the handwritten message “So much for inclusive practices!”

When I saw the printout, I photocopied it, covering up her commentary in the process, and pinned up the un-editorialized copy in its place. When she challenged me on it and accused me of censorship, I had to explain to my 15-years-my-senior co-worker:
– She was equating accusations with proof
– The “victim” had a lengthy criminal record that cast doubt on her accusations
– The article was informational to the company’s employees, but her editorializing was not, and such ugliness had no business in a professional workplace.

Turns out the “victim” had perpetrated the hoax. Funny how I never heard my co-worker admit she’d been wrong about the whole incident.
justplainangry

May 11, 2017

BB, it can be argued religion is a construct of belief into something that gives your life meaning. As such, it could be G*d, Mohamed, Marx, Soci@lism or a furry hamster. As such, inquisitors are hardly godless, they just believe in something that is amoral, depraved and illogical. But they believe nonetheless, and with much more fervor and zeal than you and I.