EU Leaked draft: EU wants to make "hate crime" a felony all across the EU

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Bespoke translation by yours truly. Original article [A] at Apollo News

Commission's plan​

Leaked draft: EU wants to make "hate crime" an EU-wide felony​


A leaked draft of the list of plans by the European Commission shows that the Commission wants to follow a new approach to introduce "hate crime" as a felony in the entire EU. There have been several attempts since 2021.

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Already during her first term as Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen wanted to declare "hate crime" a EU felony.

The magazine Euractiv recently published a draft of the list of all initiatives that the European Commission wants to implement this year. On Tuesday, February 11th, the final list is to be presented by Ursula von der Leyen to the members of the European Parliament. The European Commission president wants to tackle another initiative so that "hate speech" is recognized as a felony in all of the European Union.

Already in 2021, during her first term as Commission president, the Commission presented a corresponding legal initiative. The parliament agreed to the initiative, but there was no agreement in the Council of the European Union. Because "hate crime" can only be introduced as a EU-wide felony if all member states agree. In November 2023, members of the European Parliament demanded again that the initiative shall be followed on.

Crimes need to meet certain requirements in order to be considered "EU crimes". These requirements are stipulated in Article 83 Paragraph 1 on the work of the European Union. The crimes must be cross-border, the acts must be categorized as "particularly severe crime", and there must not be an alternative to the expansion of EU crime status to get the crime under control. So far, among EU felonies are human trafficking, terrorism, and money laundering. "Hate speech" allegedly is cross-border not only because of the Internet, but also because media such as newspapers are able to distribute content far and wide.

So far, at the level of the European Union, discrimination on the basis of skin color, religion, or sex is punishable. The European Commission argues that the introduction of a felony "hate crime" is necessary because hate not only harms the individual victim, but "also society at large", as the legal initiative from 2021 says. "Hate undermines the very foundations of our society. It weakens mutual understanding and respect for diversity on which pluralistic and democratic societies are built", it continues.

When "hate crime" is fundamentally recognized as a felony in the European Union, then, in a second step, the Commission together with the Parliament and the Council of the European Union, in the scope of the regular legislative procedure, can set concrete characteristics of the felony "hate crime". Also, the three institutions can then decree minimum regulations that are then valid in all member states.

Currently, in EU law, there is no definition of hate speech and hate crime. On the definition of the term "hate speech", the Commission refers to a recommendation by the European Council from 1997, in which it states that hate speech is the incitement of hate because of certain protected characteristics like religion or sex. The term "hate crime" is being defined in a recommendation by the European Commission in 2015 as "advocacy, promotion or incitement, in any form, of the denigration, hatred or vilification of a person or group of persons." A "negative stereotyping" is also seen as "hate crime". In that, it is about characteristics like an alleged social gender identity, age, origin, sex, or religion.

Based on these two documents, the Commission speaks of "hate crime" being any crime with a motive based on prejudices. Specifically, the initiative from 2021 says: "For both hate speech and hate crime, it is the bias motivation that triggers the perpetrator’s action." Furthermore: "These are ‘identity’ or ‘message’ acts, as the messages conveyed - notably that the targeted victims do not belong to that society - are addressed not only to the victim, but also to their community or group."

Accordingly, the motivation of the perpetrator is crucial for the felony. In addition, the text says that "hate crime" and hate speech "undermine the foundations of the EU". The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decided in 2006 that it could be necessary for "democratic societies to sanction or even prevent all forms of expression which spread, incite, promote or justify hatred based on intolerance".

The right to freedom of speech does not protect against law enforcement reactions to hate speech, the ECtHR says. The legal initiative from 2021 also refers to the concept of a "ladder of harm" or "pyramid of hate", according to which hate not only leads to discrimination or insults, but also "bias motivated violence" like rape, murder, or genocide. As an example, they refer to a study according to which hate-filled tweets lead to an increase of hate crime in a city.
 
So far, at the level of the European Union, discrimination on the basis of skin color, religion, or sex is punishable. The European Commission argues that the introduction of a felony "hate crime" is necessary because hate not only harms the individual victim, but "also society at large", as the legal initiative from 2021 says. "Hate undermines the very foundations of our society. It weakens mutual understanding and respect for diversity on which pluralistic and democratic societies are built", it continues.
That's a lot of words to say "I can't change (or understand) human nature, so I'll just criminalize it."

As an example, they refer to a study according to which hate-filled tweets lead to an increase of hate crime in a city.
This was one of those cherry-picked causation=correlation incidents, wasn't it?
 
Translations of some comments in the comments section:
  • And with that, freedom of speech is officially over, because these vague terms can ultimately be used for everything that is in some way critical to the powers that be.
  • In my opinion, these are essentially multi-culti-laws that are to prevent any criticism to immigration policy and left-wing bunk ideas. Europe is destroying itself!
  • OK, I hate the EU!! Please send me a criminal charge!!
    • Please stand ready tomorrow at 6 AM on the dot in your bathrobe!
  • Instead of trying to make the EU in any way more competitive, the focus is unfortunately on ideology and censorship. Just what is going on in their heads? What is that supposed to lead to?
    • "What is that supposed to lead to?"
      if you can't answer that question, I guess you're politically uneducated.
      Simple answer: socialist dictatorship.
  • Hate speech? And what about hate thought?!?! Look, we know where it's going to end. Everything by the book, see Orwell's "1984". Well he probably wrote that more as a deterrent, but who cares...
    The EU just has a lot of MiniLove for us ;)
    Thus, there should be the 1st Class Erich Mielke Memorial Order!
    Keep fighting! Fight against the thought criminals!
 
Knowing the EU it will go only one way, aka only white people will get jailed for saying bad stuff about muslims while muslims will get a slap on the wrist if they drive a truck through a Christmas or Easter market
If non-whites decide to plan some kind of mass rape (for whatever reason) on whitey, they'll say they have no idea what motivated it. Nah, it can't be racial, noooo.
 
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If non-whites decide to plan some kind of mass rape (for whatever reason) on whitey, they'll say they have no idea what motivated it. Nah, it can't be racial, noooo.
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I am looking forward to the withdrawing of USAID funding causing a collapse of the "grassroots" far left in Europe.
 
Already during her first term as Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen wanted to declare "hate crime" a EU felony.
You know the person nobody voted for, who lectures people about muh democracy.

"Hate undermines the very foundations of our society. It weakens mutual understanding and respect for diversity on which pluralistic and democratic societies are built"
All democratic societies were built by homogeneous populations. Actual pluralism requires an understanding of "this is an internal discussion", if you have aliens around, it will just turn into a competition for resources without any goodwill. Multi-culturalism is really good if you want to end up with despotism and a society that can be very easily steered by pandering to sub groups.

Also, muh hate, everything they don't like is hate. You don't want to be killed on the street? You are a dectractor. *snort snort*
 
The right to freedom of speech does not protect against law enforcement reactions to hate speech, the ECtHR says
Yes it does, well it should in civilized countries.
It's the whole point of free speech, to protect criticism and words and ideas that may be considered unsavory.
Hate speech laws are the opposite of free speech and expression.
 
"hate crime" can only be introduced as a EU-wide felony if all member states agree.
At least there's some hopium. There for sure will be countries that will not agree with this "policy".
The European Commission argues that the introduction of a felony "hate crime" is necessary because hate not only harms the individual victim, but "also society at large"
"NOOO, YOU CAN'T CALL THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE ACTIVELY RUINING YOUR COUNTRY, "RETARDED SANDNIGGER RAPISTS", BECAUSE THAT WILL HURT THEIR FEELINGS!!!"
As an example, they refer to a study according to which hate-filled tweets lead to an increase of hate crime in a city.
According to my fucking study, increased number of sandniggers in an European cities, causes the native population of said so cities to hate them, and call them sandniggers. Ever thought about it this way?
 
Yes it does, well it should in civilized countries.
It's the whole point of free speech, to protect criticism and words and ideas that may be considered unsavory.
Hate speech laws are the opposite of free speech and expression.
it reminds me so much of this quote, from the playbook of Africa's most famous dictator
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God I hate these EU Politifags who nobody ever elected to begin with that are the ones who write laws and try to implement them in favor of their imported voting cattle while whitey must suffer.

And they wonder why there's a shift to the far right.
And then these soy looking unelected faggots come out and buy ads with EU taxpayers money to say that EU manufacturing is dying and we don’t create any tech innovation like we used to, but it’s okay, because we are the powerhouse of innovation in regulations.
 
It's all so tiresome. "[...] prevent all forms of expression [...] based on intolerance"? It's like neutering a society. Hatred is a powerful expression, and very much beneficial in reasonable quantities, but this is not even about that. These are bureaucrats, ruthless scum you wouldn't want to give any power to, looking to expand their reach and silence any critics online where their claws aren't at the bone yet. This is concerning especially looking at countries such as UK and Germany, where people are being routinely detained, sometimes breaching into their residence with rifles wielded. Far too many of those proposals have already reached the EU Parliament before and are just a bad, unlucky day from passing without people's attention (see: ChatControl, the "Going Dark" initiative et cetera).
 
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