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Originally Posted by roachboy
read the post, dk.
jesus.
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i read it. I also feel you only threw that in there so you wouldn't look bigoted about it. We all know how you feel about conservatives in general, so it's not a huge stretch of the imagination to believe you may actually feel that way, but claim it's generally not true, so you look more unbiased.
to be even more direct about your post, i'll start with this.
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there are several ways to address broader contextual issues: one would be to change the culture in which racism &/or homophobia are made legitimate. given freedom of speech laws, you can't simply do that. you can do it via cultural or political pressure, but it's a diffuse and long-term process. but you can address the outcomes which are *enabled* by the persistence of these discourses (if you like)...and hate crimes is a way to do that.
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or you could do something really crazy and apply the law fairly and equally to all people regardless of gender, race, or orientation.
face facts and reality for once. hate crime laws do nothing but distort equal protection under the laws by imposing harsher sentences for crimes against another for belonging to a special group of people. It's like the idiot capital murder laws in texas. The first qualification to turn murder in to capital murder is if it's a law enforcement officer. Are you telling me that THAT is equal protection?