Boulder 'Hate hotline' draws flak

The Rocky Mountain News reports:

BOULDER - A proposed "hate hotline" is "the Boulder liberal, generous, good-hearted mentality gone crazy," says the former head of the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

But others are warmer to the idea.

The City Council will consider Tuesday whether to give $30,000 to start the hotline, which would give residents a place to report incidents in which people are treating others insensitively, based on their race, gender, sexual orientation or other differences.

"This isn't going to cure racism," said Carla Selby, former Boulder County ACLU chairwoman. "It's going to cause more hate and divide the community further."

Selby said the hotline would endorse a victim mentality and the propensity to be overly sensitive.

Boulder residents "really want to be inclusive, to be nice and not be divisive, to acknowledge that other people can be offended - all that good liberal stuff," she said. "But it's gone nuts. Instead of being inclusive, this would be divisive. People are sentimentalizing and overly individualizing everybody.

"We all get offended - I get offended by people spitting on the sidewalk - but you have to live with it."

No word yet on whether the hotline considers Boulder's attitude toward registered Republicans,evangelical Christians,and tax hating libertarians a "hate crime".Ever notice how these college towns subsidized by federal taxpayers seem to lack a diversity of "opinion"?