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No, they shouldn't be the same. Guy B should be more heavily punished.

Let's say Guy C comes out of a gay bar and gets the Hell beat out of him by 4 black men, that were waiting to beat a gay man. They should be tried for a hate crime.

This I have no problem with. If hate and intimidation are the driving force behind the crime, then the punishment needs to reflect that. However, since prejudice and hatred can exist in ALL groups then ALL groups must face the same treatment. To say only one group should be tried for hate crimes or to try only one group for hate crimes and let another off.... then the system is wrong and prejudicial within itself.



Same treatment, that's all I'm saying about the OP also. If you can sit there and tell me it is ok for a black judge to do this but not a white judge..... then something is wrong you are hypocritical. Just as when I say I would demand anyone else's job having done something similar for their own grouping, because the color doesn't matter the abuse of power and prejudicial theme it sets.

We can not have double standards and laws that treat one group one way and another differently and say we are fighting prejudice. The fight in and of itself promotes prejudice by the laws it has created, then.

You cannot fight prejudice and hate with prejudice and hate..... IT WON'T WORK!!!!! Yet, by the postings on this board some seem to eagerly and enthusiastically believe it will, and God forgive you if you speak out on the hypocrisy.

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"