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Originally Posted by DrPhil
Generally speaking, people who say there shouldn't be hate crime legislation are people who A) as MysticCat stated, don't realize that motivation and intent matter for most crimes and/or B) are not identified as members of power minority groups who tend to be the victims of hate crimes.
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or C) People who realize that hate is in the intent for many (if not most)violent crimes, whether they be based on race or the fact that your wife is sleeping with another guy.
And I'm not sure how one defines "minority groups" since we're all minorities.
Furthermore, it's a bit difficult to discern whether or not the crime was motivated by hate for a certain group...
This is sort of unrelated, but this is an interesting story....
http://reason.com/blog/2008/03/07/pu...k-and-step-awa
It's a story about how a man was reprimanded for "Racial Harassment" for reading a book about how Notre Dame students fought the Klan in 1924 in front of African-American employees.
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