It's naive to think that these things happen in a void, completely unconnected with anyone or anything else. If you're in the right neck of the backwoods, that redneck deciding to lynch a black man and that jock stomping the gay guy to death will get off scot free, because the locals have decided that boy needed killin', and it's a shame it had to happen like that, but what can you do. Calling it a "hate crime" isn't thought policing - it's often the only way to see that any justice gets done at all.
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Date: 2007-05-07 12:52 am (UTC)