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Originally Posted by roachboy
this idea that there's something discrimitory in the application of the notion of hate crime is like blaming affirmative action for racism. same kind of logic.
that's all i meant.
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I find affirmative action to be racist, in the very definition of the word since it's giving preference to those by race. Anytime you classify anything by race, it's racist. I don't blame it for it, but I see it as not solving the racism issue.
As someone who was assaulted in Iceland for being a different race, I was not aware of the fact that was the reason for my assault. I had many people telling me how much more horrible it was that there was a hate crime committed. As far as I was concerned, it was a drunk asshole that assaulted me, not a drunk bigoted asshole.
I was assaulted. Nothing else.
People prompting me to to feel differently was absurd. Assault. Not made worse because I'm a different ethnicity.
You know who was more horrified by the hate crime? The other people were who were embarrassed and who felt bad by the actions of the drunk bastard.
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