A new law sponsored by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, aims to battle “white supremacy” by making some types of “hate speech” illegal.
By extending the definition of a hate crime under Title 18 of the United States Code, the “Leading Against White Supremacy Act of 2023” aims to “prevent and punish white supremacy inspired hate crime and conspiracy to commit white supremacy inspired hate crime.”
The Title 18 amendment by Jackson Lee introduces the charge of conspiracy to commit hate crimes influenced by white supremacy. An individual will also be criminally responsible under the new measure if they support in the development, planning, or inspiration of such hate crimes.
The legislation itself also states that those who “published material advancing white supremacy, white supremacist philosophy, conflict based on “replacement theory,” or hate speech that disrespects or is alternatively directed against any non-White individual or group, and such published sources,” if that substance was “read, listened, or viewed by an individual who involved in the planning, growth, prepping, or incidence of a white supremacy inspired hate crime,” would face criminal penalties.
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