More than 3000 Scots hate crime reports so far

Who would have thought those happy Scots were such a hotbed of hatred

Keep ‘em coming.

Let’s completely overwhelm the ridiculous Scots legal system and then the SNP can be found, at the latrines, with their pants down their ankles, howling at the unfairness of it all.

Community Safety Minister Siobhian Brown has said people are making ‘fake and vexatious complaints’.

Duh, yes. Was that not considered when you decided to produce such a ridiculous law?

I called it the other day. The law will be abused in equal measure by the anti-trans ‘CIS IS A SLUR!!!!’ edgelords and the TRA melts.

The other 99% of the population won’t even notice it.

 

England also has some hate crimes which in my view go too far to curb freedom of speech. Also he who shoutest loudest in reporting them or online asking for things to be removed usually wins the day which is very unfair - like out breach of the peace laws - depends on what others around think of the action, not the objective action itself. It's very complicated for the police who then end up talking about context - as they did to someone complaining about symbols used on a march recently and police refused to intervene.