Michigan continues its race towards oblivion, with its recent groundbreaking legislation, House Bill 4474, sparking a fiery debate statewide. The bill, which criminalizes ‘harassment’ or ‘intimidation’ through the misuse of pronouns, is one of the first in the country.
The Democrat-dominated Michigan House of Representatives passed HB 4474 with a 59 to 50 vote on June 20. The bill now advances to the state Senate for review. If approved, it will require the signature of fascist Governor Gretchen Whitmer for enactment, which she intends to give.
This new bill forms part of a package aiming to replace Michigan’s Ethnic Intimidation Act, achieving the holy grail of progressivism. It effectively makes it a hate crime to induce feelings of terror, fear, or threat using words. House Bill 4474 goes beyond the original law, encompassing sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or expression, and physical or mental disability. The bill reads:
“‘Intimidate’ means a willful course of conduct involving repeated or continuing harassment of another individual that would cause a reasonable individual to feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened, and that actually causes the victim to feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened.”
It doesn’t take much for ‘words are an act of violence’ crowd to feel threatened. The proposed legislation stipulates that deliberately using wrong pronouns with the intent to intimidate constitutes a hate crime. Convicted offenders could face a felony charge, punishable by up to 5 years in prison or a fine not exceeding $10,000.
You know that they’re just itching to enforce it.
