Go on, infantilize us some more
You’ll not believe me but this is a real thing.
Here it is right here at Police Scotland here. The police, talking baby talk to the citizenry.
Have you met the Hate Monster?
The Hate Monster, represents that feeling some people get when they are frustrated and angry and take it out on others, because they feel like they need to show they are better than them. In other words, they commit a hate crime.
The Hate Monster loves it when you get angry. He weighs you down till you end up targeting someone, just because they look or act different to you.
When you’re feeling insecure or angry, the Hate Monster feeds on that.
This is the language of picture books for small children, age 4 or 5. Children age 5 tend not to read police webpages.
Scotland, what did they do to you?
Have I met the Hate Monster? No, not personally, but I think he’s currently campaigning to be the next President of the United States.
(They very nearly got his shade of orange right. The pelage, not so much.)
Perhaps not, but they do seem to write them.
This recent urge among police forces to show themselves to be on ‘the right side’ of this particular issue intrigues me, considering the justified criticism of many police forces for their willingness to employ murderous sexual predators and perpetrators of domestic violence, and for their institutional racism, etc. Are they trying to show how nice & cuddly they really are?
Weeeeelllllll… By my reading, they seem to be (inadvertently?) directing most of their comments to “…young men aged 18-30… particularly those from socially excluded communities who are heavily influenced by their peers.”
So, as the kids say these days: In this essay I will…
Love how they reasonlessly (is that a word? it is now!) sneaked the “white” into the white-male entitlement.
Because sure, no brown or black person ever committed a hate crime.
Also love how here they say it is mainly males, but somehow they have a tendency to accuse women of hate crime who talk about sex being binary and men not becoming women.
Well I hope they checked the hate monster’s gender identity before brazenly referring to it as “he”.
Back in the late 80s I was talking to an editor at one of the two daily newspapers we had. One was pitched at the working class, and the other at the middle and, for lack of a better phrase, upper classes. Back then we didn’t have an upper class, just people with a bit of money and aspirations. He said that one paper pitched at an average reading age of seven, and the other at 13. Of course expectations for literacy were somewhat higher back then.