EPTAre "hate crimes" considered more harshly?
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BinaryStar
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seeyoulater
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BinaryStar
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On February 27 2005 11:39 seeyoulater wrote: not really Yes really. It's not like they consider any crime committed with hate as the motive as a "hate crime"... it's only homophobic/racist/etc crimes that are treated as such. | ||
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dork_of_death!!
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BinaryStar
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I'm converted. :o | ||
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Anti
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chobopeon
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vGl-CoW
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DevAzTaYtA
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On February 27 2005 12:12 Anti wrote: I wouldnt think so but the jury would probably tend to feel a bit more apathetic for the victims of a hate crime i hope you mean sympathetic :O | ||
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Energies
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dork_of_death!!
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On February 27 2005 13:50 vGl-CoW wrote: There's one thing that bothers me about the hate crime thing though, and I could be somewhat off, but they seem to be less likely to label any crimes comitted by black people against white people (because they are white) as a 'hate crime', while they seem a lot more likely to label many white vs black crimes as such. There are a lot of things about american society which i do not understand. double standards is one of those things. for example, malcom x is seen as a positive figure-- a man who was all about killing whitey the blue-eyed devil, yet in some major cities there are streets named after him. Martin Luther King? He's down. Malcom X? Psycho. That's just my opinion though. We're all about not pissing off black people in this country. Probably for a good reason (remember the Rodney King riots?) It baffles me sometimes. | ||
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