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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
The only time we care about them being hate or bias crimes is in these types of situations, yet if say it was one white guy who hated another white guy it's still not a hate/bias crime.
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Uh. Yes? People do not usually try to exterminate or intimidate in to non-existance their own racial or ethnic group. That intimidation, the removal of the right to exist by non-legal means is an additional crime. It's called a compound offence. Say for instance, if Joe accidentally shot someone while doing something legal, Joe might get manslaughter. But if Joe is commiting a felony, Joe gets Felony Murder. And that's capitol.
Gilda's logic on aggrivating factors parallels this idea as well.
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It's not the judicial system that is dumb as bricks it's the people that blindly accept the media stating something as a bias crime, ala Tawana Brawley and her shenanigans against Steven Pagones basically ruining his life and career based on a hate crime lie.
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Utterly irrelevant. If laws could be disproved by one wrongful accusation, we wouldn't have a single statute on the books.