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I've been harassed my whole life for being overweight, but I'm not sure if I'd consider that to be a hate crime or not. Generally the extent of any kind of hate crime, which in this case really isn't, is just the intolerance in my family. Gays, minorities, non-baptists, etc. are bad to them. It's embarassing to be in a restaraunt and have your grandmother refer to some one as a negro.
While I've yet to actually see a hate crime, here at Texas A&M there's a lot of hate speech towards blacks and Muslim/Muslim looking people. Occasionally a person will be assaulted, but that's not too terribly common these days.
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I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well."
Emo Philips
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