The Brazilian congress is about to vote on the criminalization of homophobia. Religious parties and churches oppose the law, because priests preaching against homosexuality would face arrest for the crime of homophobia. The proposed law was amended to exempt priests preaching while inside churches. In other words, anyone outside a church can not voice any negative opinion about homosexuality.
Brazil already has anti-discrimination laws favoring gays (in addition to laws against racism, religious discrimination, etc.) Business owners or building managers who disallow gays from French kissing in public face arrests and fines unless they can also prove they have a history of banning heterosexuals from kissing. Hotels must not discriminate against gay couples. This law would further strengthen existing anti-discrimination laws and impose stiff jail sentences.
This attempt at passing laws criminalizing homophobia comes right after the Brazilian Supreme Court, in a rare unanimous vote, decided to take lawmaking into its own hands and declared that gay couples have the same rights as heterosexual couples on all issues, such as inheritance, joint tax declarations, joint health insurance, common law marriage, right to property acquired during cohabitation, etc. Some minor doubts remain if this includes the right for gay couples to adopt children.
No Free Speech or Free Academic Research
Historically, for anti-discrimination laws, even science is not a valid excuse: the book The Bell Curve was banned in Brazil because it violated their anti-racism laws. The US is not much better, as then-President Clinton condemned the book without having read it. But in the US, at least nobody will be arrested and jailed for research on racial differences (they will just be harassed).
It is interesting to note that Brazil’s and Rio’s officials fought to win the title “best gay destination in the world” but are vigorously opposed to “sexual tourism,” meaning heterosexual males looking to hook up with Brazilian women.
The Slippery Slope from Protecting Groups from Violence to Policing Words, Thoughts and Research
Political correctness started as a well-meaning attempt to correct legitimate grievances, like violence against homosexuals or other races (especially blacks) and religions (especially Muslims), as well as gender discrimination (sexual harassment). The next step, still defensible, punishes hate speech meant to directly and immediately incite violence.
So the initial intent was to outlaw “kill blacks,” “exterminate Jews,” and “beat faggots” type speech. But that soon led to stifling thoughts and speech that hurts the sensitive feelings of protected minorities.
It is a serious violation of the freedoms of speech, thought, and research to extend these anti-violence codes to:
- Parents who don’t want their children to become gay;
- Scholarly researchers’ writings about racial differences in IQ and criminality;
- People who warn others to avoid certain parts of town because they are more dangerous (and predominantly black).
Homophobic jokes, racist speech, racist jokes, or anything that mildly upsets a member of a protected minority group can get the offender arrested and jailed. See, for example, Dutch politician Geert Wilders’ prosecution for offending Muslims (who threatened his life and have already killed Theo van Gogh).
Almost everything that can be said is offensive to some protected group, or actually constitutes a crime: our society suffers from overcriminalization.
Public speech and commercial advertising are very difficult nowadays because it is easy to offend some group, be it blacks, Indians, women, the obese, the handicapped, nurses, or any group in existence. Maybe with the exception of white males who can be bashed infinitely because they don’t belong to any disadvantaged minority group.
Originally published at Human Stupidity on May 14, 2011.
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“churches oppose the law, because priests preaching against homosexuality would face arrest for the crime of homophobia”
Churches, going all the way to the top, have, to their disgrace, surrendered to liberalism on key things like immigration and aspects of feminism. Maybe they should quit bitching about risking arrest and instead re-read their histories of various martyrs and preach according to their principles, even if it gets them arrested.
Kinda funny, I studied for 7 months in Brazil (Bahia and Sampa) and for all of their international boasting of being a racially harmonious society it still looked pretty fucking racist to me. Way worse than the part of the Midwest where I’m from.
I’mma give Brazil some advice from up north: Your country has one of the highest crime rates in the entire world – maybe you might want to do something about the fact that gangsters with assault rifles control large portions of your major cities instead of embracing every stupid, egalitarian left-wing cause out there. Barring that, you might work on your byzantine tax system (CPF na nota?) and try to make your economy better rather than worrying about the feelings of a tiny portion of your population.
It’s not about equality.
It never was. I don’t believe in coincidence in politics and human affairs.
As you’ve mentioned, there is only one group in the whole world who can be criticized with impunity – straight, white, Christian men.
It ‘s ironic. The “minority” groups abuse these freedoms with full knowledge that if they should win, the freedom will disappear. There’s only so much room at the trough, and not everybody is going to get their bribe.
Well, Brazil is ruled by:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilma_Vana_Rousseff
Yet another old-school commie who “saw the light”, doing all that they can to serve many masters.
And I think that this comes from a desire to be as pro-gay as possible.
Yeah – those Detroit and Chicago Blacks hate white people.
“Mieri- It still looked pretty fucking racist to me.”
You shouldn’t attack black brazilians like that. But, of course, that’s not who you are attacking. The word racism, since at least the 1920′s, has been used to attack European caucasian people who want to preserve their ethnorace. The word racism is almost always used by non-Europeans to justify their invasion of European areas or instiutions. The word “racism” to used to justify the slow genocide of European peoples.
Things are bad around here. I did not finished the reading of this article. But i can say that is the very true. The gay indoctrinazation around here is getting massive adeption by our law
Anyway i will finish the read of this article later
I have a blog that talk about relantionships and gender war
My blog have a translator button, you can check too
enigmaticoerealistico.blogspot.com
Off-topic: This just in: http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2011/05/yale-bans-iconic-fraternity-for-fratboy.html
Don’t look at me for any illegal comments.
I can’t say anything bad about gay culture in Brazil, without throwing out my “abada” for bloco “Uau!” (Fortal, 2005)
(Even though I didn’t engage in ANY sexual activity – A.C. or D.C. – I had more fun than a man my age should be medically permitted to have.)
How can you ban how you feel? Did it say “ban homophobia” in the Brazilian papers?
Brazil is just a fun land for foreign people, because or women are sluts interested in money and they have a view that foreigners are “rich” people.
Anyway, Brazil is a shit land. We have stupidy and dumb-ass people, that just watch stupidy’s TV show’s all day long, that just know about soccer but dont know who was the last politic that they voted. Well, its a long and shameful list.
Dont be fooled, Brazil is just a paradise for those who seek sluts and hookers (all brazillian girls are potentially hookers). And this paradise is just for foreign people! hahaha
Well its a damn shit country and its getting worse with all this gayzist indoctrination. I have so much shame for being a brazillian guy
Anyway i talk about women and relantionships in my blog, i have a translator tool you guys can check and can comment too.
Cya
http://enigmaticoerealistico.blogspot.com/
Homophobia is a loaded, inaccurate word to begin with. I don’t know anyone who FEARS fags, but I know plenty of people who HATE them or are DISGUSTED by them.
Americans only hear (via our corrupt Liberal MainStream Media) that Brazil is a capitalist paradise that grows its own gasoline/ethanol. But it appears our countries have much in common – with our Bread & Circuses.
Same here – plus, our girls increasingly will look like Brazilians.
Firepower with the globalization, this global-bread&circus will never stop. Until the total system colapse, we will always be fooled by media and government, because most people are blinded by the false happy society.
You don’t get it. Brazilian are QUALITY hookers who give you the best sex of your life for your money, many of them enjoying the act themselves. Not ripoff hookers.
Americans are not headed that way.
That is it, exactly. You can not say “I hate niggers”, or “blacks are immoral criminals”. You can not even say “blacks are less intelligent and more criminal, according to statistics and academic research”. That is the Brazilian crime of racism.
Neither can you say: “I don’t want my son to become gay”, or “I am against gay marriage”
Well, every word in this article is true. Unfortunately.
The only ones who stood up against it was the small group know as “TFP” (Tradition, Family and Property), a couple churches, and a few skinheads.
For most people, this law criminalizing “homophobia” (whatever the hell it is) is of self-evident importance. Not only the local brand of SWPLness.
So this is the most fucked up aspect of all this: its a coercive and draconian law that is being welcome by the ones who will be subjected to it. The very people who also make gay jokes often, but praise the symbolic value of this law, ignoring the fact that it will bite you in the ass eventually.
Bear in mind that Brazil dont have a tradition of democracy and civil engagement. The average brazilian is acostumate to being irrelevant to the destiny of the country, and is cynical about democracy. And most important, this citzen have a mendicant relationship with the government: hence why there is no right wing in Brazil (really there isnt); and why paternalistic politicians are celebrated.
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I have to disagree with Enigmatico (hey dude, how ya doing?) in a couple things. Brazil is not a hell hole.
Specially from an MRA point of view: shared custody is the standard custody arrangement; you can get rid of fraudulent paternity; prostitution is legal; and a couple other MRA cause celebre I cant recall.
You are enacting the traditional brazilian behaviour: first to trash your country; and the first to be pissed off if a stranger do it.
Hi rant, its a little strange to talk with you in another language, since we are from the same country haha
Well i have to agree with you that Brazil isnt a hell hole from the MRA point of view. Because our law works to slowly and with money and a good lawyer you can be safe whatever the issue is. (maybe this will change at Dilma government…)
Anyway, im talking from relations and citizen point of view.
You have to agree that brazil is full of people without culture, without good manners, and just few peoples arent like that
Its not a question of bash my own country, its a question of being realistic. Of course i know that it is a generalization, but we all know that brazil is masked with things that in the deep we are not.
LOL just answering the last part. If a stranger talk what Brazil is i dont get pissed.
Last week i was watching “panico na tv” and the girls that was from Czech Republic told a couple trues about Brazil. Well, on my work (i was on my work) everyone got pissed about what the girls said. But not me, they was not lying about Brazil reality
Hi, Enigmatico
Its indeed strange to talk to you in another language particulary because we talk often – in portuguese.
Its true, most brazilians dont have high culture. Dont fool yourself, americans complain all the time about the “proles and the rednecks”. Every country has simple people and Brazil is not different in this matter.
Now as for manners, most brazilians dont have a firm grasp of etiquette, and sometimes try to compensate for it in a gauche way.
Anyway, we are missing the point.
The worst thing about Brazil, is the willingness to imitate the poor exemples of developed countries, because of an admiration for theyr wealth.
No matter how much Sweden is an Orwellian distopy, for an exemple, most brazilians think that if we make Brazil the same politically correct hell, we will somehow become developed (and in brazilian portuguese “developed” equals rich, and that is all).
So if the gringos are fretting about gay marriage and race, etc, then brazilian middle class assumes we should too.
They dont realize that all it will lead to is a lot of bothersome political correctness in a still poor country.
Now we are in sintony Rant.
I agreed with you
Brazil its just a headless country that just imitate what happen with the “1º world country’s” so we act like “developed” country’s but we forget to improve basic things like education, health system, etc.
The people that rule us, want to get in sintony with the brave new world order. But brazil is still a jungle compared with developed country’s
Not a jungle.
But a half assed job, for sure.
Wow. I hadn’t known it was literally criminal. I did some googling and found and an article about some Brazilian girl getting in trouble for a tweet. Here’s a passage:
If the case goes to court she would face charges of racism, which carries a sentence of between two and five years imprisonment, and incitement to murder on the internet, which is punishable by three to six months imprisonment or a fine.
So being a ‘racist’ carries 4-20 times the sentence that inciting murder carries. I guess I’ll stick to the northern hemisphere.
Methinks ‘homophobes’ will be better received in Brazilian prisons than ‘racists’.
Sadly, homosexuality is dominated by politics. It’s wrong for a homo or lesbian to seek repair therapy to be straight, yet most are apologists for sex change maimings. Now Brazil wants to make it a crime to be against homo&lesbian activities. As wrote by me on another post, I’ve never heard straights blame childhood sex abuse for turning out married with kids yet I’ve sometimes heard homos&lesbians say that they believe childhood sex abuse is the reason why they engage in homosexual activities. If a boy is homosexually raped in his youth esp. repeatedly, the likelihood is more that he’ll take part in homosexual activities in adulthood because the homosexual rapes may have messed up his mind & sexuality.
American Indian porn actress Hyapatia Lee has sex with underage girls, so Hyapatia Lee should have gone to jail for child molestation-American Indian porn actress Hyapatia Lee used to lick little girls vaginas during lesbian scenes & sometimes little girls licked Hyapatia Lee’s vagina & anus. Hyapatia Lee is an apologist for child molestation when it’s committed by American Indians & American Indian porn actress Hyapatia Lee is a child molester. Hyapatia Lee can complain about Whites but the truth is that American Indians had violent cultures before the Whites came. Yes, the Whites did bad things (I’m not White) but Hyapatia Lee, that’s the lesser of 2 evils & the Americas are a better place because the American Indians lost the wars & the barbaric practices of the American Indians were abolished. Porn actress Hyapatia Lee does smelly farts & turds & Hyapatia Lee doesn’t wash her hands after she farts & shits.
Tens of millions of people in Brazil are in deep poverty, and their government has nothing better do to than implement political correctness. Shameful!
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