Resources & Comment
This poem is created by making a black-out poem based on the first three resources below. When the debate began online, I didn’t expect this to be a trauma trigger of an entirely different nature. The most worrisome aspects are: the restriction of artistic freedom, the lack of an actual definition, and it seems as if the NCHI is a free for all for denunciation East German Style, even within someone’s own home!
https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/legislation/bills/s5-bills/hate-crime-and-public-order-scotland-bill/introduced/explanatory-notes-hate-crime-and-public-order-scotland-bill.pdf
https://www.stophateuk.org/about-hate-crime/gender-based-hate-crime/
https://murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2024/02/23/he-says-she-says-how-police-scotland-policy-risks-weaponising-hate-crime/
https://www.gov.scot/news/domestic-abuse-recorded-by-the-police-in-scotland-2021-22
https://youtu.be/SPeUtdT9oUM?si=rRAHAxDUPVxOxzKB
https://www.parliament.scot/bills-and-laws/bills/hate-crime-and-public-order-scotland-bill
Explanation from the Policy Memorandum:
[…] For example, hate crime legislation plays its role as part of wider efforts to ensure people feel safe and can live free from discrimination, through ensuring hate crime is enforceable with clear consequences, and where people have a greater and clearer understanding of hate crime and its consequences.
Hate crime definition
13. There is no single accepted definition of hate crime with different definitions produced for different purposes, however Lord Bracadale stated in his review : “Hate crime is the term used to describe behaviour which is both criminal and rooted in prejudice”.
Writing for Healing 