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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
gay panic defense.... the judge and DA should have not accepted that as a reasonable defense.
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This is true, but it has little to do with my complaint, which is that dippin isn't implying that hate crimes are to make up for a complete lack of crime. It's about degrees of wrongdoing.
His example here was merely to demonstrate how bad the problem can get.
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