When hate is not hate

A University of Michigan professor of Communications has actually communicated something quite clearly. She says unequivocally, “I hate Republicans.”

Which means that to her and others who think like her, either:

a. Hate speech is not a problem; or

b. Only those you hate can be guilty of hate speech.

This comes on the heels of another incident at the same university which (but for the conservative student-run Michigan Review) has received zero local press coverage.

Omar Mahmood, a Michigan Review columnist, reported that the doorway of his apartment had been vandalized with eggs, hot dogs, and disparaging notes on Friday night. Several of the notes, sporting interesting captions like “Everyone hates you, you violent prick!” were written on copies of Mr. Mahmood’s controversial editorial, Do the Left Thing, that subsequently resulted in Mahmood’s suspension from The Michigan Daily. 

Check out the video above that captures the vandals defacing Mahmood’s doorway, in apparent dissatisfaction with his failure to meet their standards of political correctness. ‘Tolerance’ is a core tenet of the political left, after all – we’ve just never seen it practiced quite like this.

Reason has more.

After penning a satirical op-ed for The Review that mocked political correctness and trigger warnings, The Daily ordered him to apologize to an anonymous staffer who was offended and felt “threatened” by him. He refused and was fired.

Last week, he became the victim of what The College Fix has described as a “hate crime.” The doorway of his apartment was vandalized in the middle of the night; the perpetrators pelted the door with eggs and scribbled notes like “shut the fuck up” and “everyone hates you you violent prick.” They left copies of the offending column and a print-out picture of Satan.

The column that caused such a controversy, “Do the Left Thing,” was published in The Review last month. It’s a first-person narrative in which Mahmood pretends to be a left-handed person who is offended by the institutional patriarchy of right-handedness.

How hateful of him to satirize “trigger warnings!” And how violent!

The clear lesson is that it’s not hatred to hate — or even attack — someone you disagree with. For penning a satire of the “trigger warning” nonsense, Mahmood is adjudged guilty of “hatred” and his attackers are pure, noble, and brave!

You’d almost think these people want a totalitarian state or something.