{"id":1873749,"date":"2023-03-10T08:25:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T13:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/minnesota-lawmaker-concerned-over-bill-allowing-government-to-track-alleged-hate-and-bias-incidents\/"},"modified":"2023-03-10T08:33:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T13:33:09","slug":"minnesota-lawmaker-concerned-over-bill-allowing-government-to-track-alleged-hate-and-bias-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/minnesota-lawmaker-concerned-over-bill-allowing-government-to-track-alleged-hate-and-bias-incidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Lawmaker Concerned Over Bill Allowing Government to Track Alleged \u2018Hate and Bias Incidents\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fminnesota-lawmaker-concerned-over-bill-allowing-government-to-track-alleged-hate-and-bias-incidents%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1873749&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div>\n<p>Walter Hudson, Minnesota State Representative, is launching a lawsuit to update the state&#8217;s response to and track requests. &#8220;hate and bias incidents,&#8221;\u00a0It can be called a crime in which no crime was actually committed.\u00a0&#8220;problematic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bill\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revisor.mn.gov\/bills\/bill.php?b=House&#038;f=HF0181&#038;ssn=0&#038;y=2023#:~:text=Description,of%20bias%3B%20and%20money%20appropriated.\">HF 181<\/a>, was first introduced in January this year by\u00a0Rep. Samantha Vang, a member of the\u00a0Democratic\u2013Farmer\u2013Labor Party, in an attempt to address what she said are\u00a0&#8220;hate and bias incidents&#8221; They have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. &#8220;Black Indigenous and people of color communities including Asian Americans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota&#8217;s bill will be amended to reflect the new law. &#8220;peace officers&#8221; Additional training would be provided to help identify, respond, and report crimes &#8220;motivated by bias.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the bill would allow community organizations, school districts,\u00a0charter schools, and individuals to report crimes that they believe are &#8220;motivated by the victim&#8217;s or another&#8217;s actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, familial status, or disability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Such crimes could also be reported over the\u00a0victim&#8217;s &#8220;actual or perceived association with another person or group of a certain actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, or disability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bill would allow data to be reported and developed on the nature and extent of the\u00a0crimes motivated by bias.<\/p>\n<p>These crimes fall typically outside of hate crimes, which are reported annually to the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sctimes.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2023\/02\/08\/anti-asian-bias-spurs-effort-to-update-minnesotas-hate-crime-law\/69881683007\/\">According<\/a> St. Cloud Times.<\/p>\n<h2>Bill Language Is \u2018Problematic&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>However,\u00a0Hudson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/minnesota-lawmaker-slams-bill-that-would-create-thoughtcrime-database-of-alleged-bias-incidents\">Telled<\/a> Fox\u00a0News Digital that he is concerned about &#8220;problematic&#8221; The bill contains language that does not just refer to race, but also to gender, sexual orientation and gender identity.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican lawmaker said he fears such language could ultimately\u00a0have a negative impact on religious liberty and noted that the bill contains the words &#8220;incidents&#8221; As well as &#8220;crimes&#8221; The term &#8220;actual or perceived&#8221; identity.<\/p>\n<p>Hate &#8220;incidents&#8221; These do not always amount to a criminal offense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a very insidious and conniving way to get the camel&#8217;s nose under the tent of expanding the scope of government scrutiny of speech beyond crimes and assault,&#8221; Hudson spoke. &#8220;The intention of whoever is being accused of exhibiting bias is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is how the person making the report feels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the person making the report feels as though they have been the victim of an incident of bias, then they have been the victim of an incident of bias. And we&#8217;re going to create a database of all of these subjective, arbitrary, whimsical feelings that people have had, not anything objective or tangible at all,&#8221;\u00a0Hudson continued. &#8220;It seems very clear, based upon their focus on motivation, that they&#8217;re more concerned about what&#8217;s going on in people&#8217;s heads, which is protected speech, and that&#8217;s\u00a0thought crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hudson had earlier raised concerns over the bill to\u00a0Rebecca Lucero, commissioner of the state Department of Human Rights, who has supported the bill, as well as Vang, during a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WalterHudson\/status\/1615842940844400641\">Committee hearing<\/a>\u00a0January<\/p>\n<h2>Bill \u2018Not Necessarily a Crime Situation&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>The Republican stated that he believes the bill will create a governmental entity. &#8220;database of incidents that have no objective standard determining whether or not they violated the law, whether or not they had anything distinct from just normal speech.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So if someone were to post on social media a particular Bible verse that defined marriage or spoke of God&#8217;s institution of marriage as being between one man and one woman, or a Bible verse that spoke in condemning terms regarding certain sexual proclivities, would that posting of a Bible verse be considered an incident reportable under your bill?&#8221; He asked.<\/p>\n<p>Vang defended Vang&#8217;s bill, stating that it was important to inform Minnesotans about the bill. &#8220;hate and\u00a0bias incidents&#8221; That would not be tolerated.\u00a0&#8220;we support communities that [have] been harassed, intimidated, and abused.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0Lucero responded that the state is &#8220;already investigating incidents around discrimination&#8221; In a &#8220;neutral&#8221; way and that the bill\u00a0&#8220;is not necessarily a crime situation here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Instead, she said the bill would allow\u00a0the state to have a\u00a0&#8220;better understanding of what is likely going on out there&#8221; so that it can be used to provide things such as additional educational outreach to schools that report an increased number of\u00a0hate and bias &#8220;incidents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s helpful to know,&#8221; Lucero added.<\/p>\n<p>Vang declared that the bill would be announced in January when she made public her bill. &#8220;go a long way toward giving us the data and full understanding needed to track our rising hate crime problem so we can actively work to put an end to hate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I urge my colleagues to join us in advancing this vital safety measure,&#8221; She continued.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> &#8230;..<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p> Continue reading more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/minnesota-lawmaker-concerned-over-bill-allowing-government-to-track-alleged-hate-and-bias-incidents_5113431.html?utm_source=partner&#038;utm_campaign=conservnewsd\">Minnesota Lawmaker Concerned Over Bill Allowing Government to Track Alleged \u2018Hate and Bias Incidents&#8217;<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Hudson, Minnesota State Representative, is launching a lawsuit to update the state&#8217;s response to and track requests. &#8220;hate and bias incidents,&#8221;\u00a0It can be called a crime in which no crime was actually committed.\u00a0&#8220;problematic.&#8221; The bill\u00a0HF 181, was first introduced in January this year by\u00a0Rep. 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