Latest Fascist News: Rudeness Is Now a Capital Crime

by David Kramer
Mar. 21, 2010

Well, not exactly a “capital” crime (I’m just being my usual provocative self), but it is a crime in New Jersey. By now, many of you have heard the story about the teenage idiot who got a hold of the intercom in a Walmart store in New Jersey and, thinking he was being “cute,” made an announcement saying to the effect that all Black people must leave* the store immediately. He has been arrested by the New Jersey Thought Police on charges of harassment and bias intimidation, i.e., a “hate” crime. (Click here for a post I did on “hate” crimes.)

So now, being rude is a crime? And here I thought that being rude was just bad social behavior that warranted ostracism. Perhaps in this case, Walmart might be able to take some action against him on the grounds of trespassing or some other such violation of Walmart’s property rights. But a crime??!! As John Stossel likes to say, “Give me a break!” (For those of you who think that the idiot’s action was the same as yelling “fire” in a crowded theater, read Chapter 10 of Walter Block’s brilliant book Defending the Undefendable on why yelling “fire” in a crowded theater should not be considered a crime.)

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*Many years ago I used to swap politically incorrect jokes with a Black colleague of mine at work. I would tell him derogatory Jewish jokes and he would tell me derogatory Black jokes. Ironically, one of the best Black jokes he ever told me had as its premise the exact incident that actually happened in the New Jersey Walmart (though in his joke, the incident takes place on a commercial jet).












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