Thanks for the link. It proved an interesting read, although I still see nothing to change my current view on this. Every case study they presented I can find a parallel to where the victim was NOT violated or killed for their gender or race, but they were violated and killed for other equally stupid reasons.
Crime is crime. If a redneck decides to lynch a black man, or a jock stomps a gay guy to death, or a bank robber shoots the teller in order to leave no witnesses, or I strangle a person for putting an I LOVE GEORGE BUSH sticker on their SUV, the victim is still dead. Equally dead all around. Hate Crime Legislation is nothing short of Thought Policing. This is the beginning of a slippery slope that, if I may be allowed to conjecture colorfully, will only end once it becomes a felony to tell someone the words "Fuck You!"
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Date: 2007-05-06 11:47 pm (UTC)Crime is crime. If a redneck decides to lynch a black man, or a jock stomps a gay guy to death, or a bank robber shoots the teller in order to leave no witnesses, or I strangle a person for putting an I LOVE GEORGE BUSH sticker on their SUV, the victim is still dead. Equally dead all around. Hate Crime Legislation is nothing short of Thought Policing. This is the beginning of a slippery slope that, if I may be allowed to conjecture colorfully, will only end once it becomes a felony to tell someone the words "Fuck You!"