Reality-Immune Town to Start Hate Hotline

Boulder, Colorado has been described as "25 square miles surrounded by reality." Once again, the city lives up to its reputation:

Tuesday, the Boulder City Council will take up the matter of allocating public funding for a "hate hotline," which would give residents an opportunity to report incidents in which Boulderites use tactless language. 

You read that right.

There is, for instance, the policy statement condemning the usual individual or collective acts of racism and bigotry. Great. But it also condemns those who attack "personal beliefs and values." 

Personal beliefs and values! Most of the people I write about on this blog offend my personal beliefs and values, just as I presumably offend theirs. Should we all tattle about that to a taxpayer-funded hate hotline?

David Harsanyi of the Denver Post injects a bit of common sense:

The council should realize, however ugly it may be, Americans still have the constitutional right to be racist, homophobic, Jew-hating or even to make bad jokes — as anyone who's heard the one about the redneck who invented the ejection seat on the helicopter can tell you.

Comments

[Dawdy]

wtf? boulder has taken over from berkeley as the nutjob capitol of america. and that's going a stretch. i'm surethey will soon recognize civil unions between pets and their owners, oops make that companion-guardians.