Gyűlöletolvasás

Az igazán progresszív körökben nem csak a gyűlöletbeszédet tiltják, hanem a gyűlöletgondolkodást vagy éppen a gyűlöletolvasást is. Hát nem gyönyörű a progresszió?

A gondolatbűn, a gyűlöletgondolkodás betiltásának gondolata jól ismert. Ugyan a hagyományos jogrendszer keretén belül nehéz minden kétséget kizáróan bizonyítani, de ez nem lehet akadály. Ezért kellenek gyűlöletmegmondó emberek, akik a klubrádió adásában tévedhetetlenül megállapítják ki mit gyűlöletgondol - és a betelefonálók büntetést is kimérhetnek. Bár érdekes lenne ezt, akár így adáson kívül is, bővebben kifejteni, de most mégis inkább koncentráljunk a magyar olvasó számára kevésbé ismert bűncselekményre: a gyűlöletolvasásra.

A gyűlöletolvasás tényállását a Wall Street Journal ismerteti meg velünk. Egy fiatalember szabadidejében az egyetemi könyvtár által is beszerzett (egyébként a KKK elleni küzdelemről szóló) könyvet olvasott. És ezzel, hála az éber affirmative action officer felismerésének, megvalósította a gyűlöletolvasást. Néhány részlet:

The story began prosaically enough. Keith Sampson, a student employee on the janitorial staff earning his way toward a degree, was in the habit of reading during work breaks. Last October he was immersed in "Notre Dame Vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan."

Mr. Sampson was in short order visited by his union representative, who informed him he must not bring this book to the break room, and that he could be fired. Taking the book to the campus, Mr. Sampson says he was told, was "like bringing pornography to work." That it was a history of the battle students waged against the Klan in the 1920s in no way impressed the union rep.

The assistant affirmative action officer who next summoned the student was similarly unimpressed. Indeed she was, Mr. Sampson says, irate at his explanation that he was, after all, reading a scholarly book. "The Klan still rules Indiana," Marguerite Watkins told him – didn't he know that? Mr. Sampson, by now dazed, pointed out that this book was carried in the university library. Yes, she retorted, you can get Klan propaganda in the library.

The university has allowed no interviews with Ms. Watkins or any other university official involved in the case. Still, there can be no disputing the contents of the official letter that set forth the university's case.

Mr. Sampson stood accused of "openly reading the book related to a historically and racially abhorrent subject in the presence of your Black co-workers." The statement, signed by chief affirmative action officer Lillian Charleston, asserted that her office had completed its investigation of the charges brought by Ms. Nakea William, his co-worker – that Mr. Sampson had continued, despite complaints, to read a book on this "inflammatory topic." "We conclude," the letter informed him, "that your conduct constitutes racial harassment. . . ." A very serious matter, with serious consequences, it went on to point out.

Nem gyönyörű a progresszió? Szép új, gyűlöletmentes világot!

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