I’m a longtime fan of message billboards and other roadside rhetoric.
Nowadays I don’t get out to see them as much. But this week, the net brought a batch of striking new ones to me, from exotic Nebraska, mystic New Mexico,, And I couldn’t wait to share them.
After all, they cover some of my favorite topics: Freedom. Choice. Multiculturalism. Fighting hate. Theology, especially the liberal kind. Chutzpah. Calls to action.
And — what better to start with, to bring many of them together?
Bacon.
Father’s Day this year, two heavyset men were loitering near a Sikh temple in British Columbia. Then the president of the temple, a Canadian citizen and an activist named Hardeep Singh Nijjar, stepped out and climbed into his pickup truck to drive home for dinner with his family.
The two waiting men, wearing masks, fired through Nijjar’s window about a dozen times. Temple members bravely ran after the gunmen, who escaped in a getaway car driven by a third man.
Continue reading Two Views: Canada, India & An “Inconvenient” Assassination?
From, The New York Times:
By Julia Angwin — May 6, 2023
Ms. Angwin is a contributing Opinion writer and an investigative journalist.
[F]ear is weaponized even more than hate by leaders who seek to spark violence. Hate is often part of the equation, of course, but fear is almost always the key ingredient when people feel they must lash out to defend themselves.
Continue reading “Fear Speech” vs “Hate Speech”: An Important Distinction