I'm still thinking that differentiating between a hate crime and crime is promoting a racial aspect. If we were to look at it as a crime and remove the racial aspect then we could focus on the 'act' itself without making it more complex than it really is.
A rule when diciplining children is to scold the behaviour, not the child. The child learns that the 'behaviour' is not acceptable, it is not condemning them as an individual.
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