Ham is now a hate crime

You can't make this stuff up:
'Hate incident' in city

By Bonnie Washuk , Staff Writer
Thursday, April 19, 2007 LEWISTON - One student has been suspended and more disciplinary action could follow a possible hate crime at Lewiston Middle School, Superintendent Leon Levesque said Wednesday.

On April 11, a white student placed a ham steak in a bag on a lunch table where Somali students were eating. Muslims consider pork unclean and offensive

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First thing I would suggest Muslims get used to ham if they are going to come to Christian countries, we have it for Easter, Christmas and school lunches - which now, apparently is a crime. While Christmas trees are forbidden in public schools, one can imagine some 'tolerance officer' mandating a ha'el kitchen to accommodate the sensitivities of somalies.

Secondly the idea of a "hate" (read thought) crime is an absurd notion but clearly, except in the rarest of cases, is nearly always politically motivated and specifically targeted towards the whites. It is away for enforcing politically correct orthodoxy and nothing else. It is hopeless, senseless solution to a society increasingly volatile because the 'great experiment' of multiculturalism is failing and the only solution is an increasingly intrusive and heavy handed government and regulation of individual behavior.

But since it exists to enforce an orthodoxy, it is not concerned with violent illegal behavior within the orthodoxy. Thus the 'tolerance' for the now regular occurrence on college campuses - conservative newspapers and news offices being ransacked and speakers assaulted (as at columbia) and shouted down.

So on one end of the spectrum, a crazy korean immigrant who shows repeated signs of bizzare behavior, violence, and stalking is allowed to flow through the system on the other some eighth graders (a time I recall of particular mischievousness) are being investigated for 'hate crimes' because they offended a minority - mind you they did not physically harm them nor threaten them, they simply behaved in a way the minority in question did not like. ( the people of Lewiston did not want, but got, a boatload of Somali refugees who are responsible for a vast increase in crime in violence in that once peaceful city.)

As an editorial points out:

So why did they all tolerate his abusive behavior for so long?

Was it because he was a foreign student? Was it because he was a minority? Was it because multiculturalism has robbed us of our last sense, even our instinct for survival? Or was it simply because the campus lifestyle, more than the real world, tends to accommodate, even nurture, idiosyncratic behavior?
[Victims Of Tolerance? IBD 4/19/07]

I don't mean this as a tirade against immigrants - again there are sensible degrees of everything - i'd be the last to complain if for example we got a windfall of physicists because they were fleeing some brutal regime - but rather, multiculturalism - it's obviously a dead letter, one gets the feeling most everyone knows this but doesn't know what to replace it with.

As for the eighth graders- back in my day this wouldn't have even been enough to send someone to the principal's office - it would have resulted in simply a rebuke from the lunch monitor - if that!...now its cause of a police investigation? Is there any more elquent illustration that officials themselves fear that engineered diversity and multiculturalism create such volatile societies that the smallest incident is cause for alarm?