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Originally Posted by GreyWolf
Where, WHERE, WHERE ON EARTH is there ANY quantitative support for that statement? It is SO MUCH BS it is ridiculous. Was the Rodney King beating a hate crime? Hell, it wasn't even a crime at first. It caused a bit of social unrest. For every one of those results, there can be found hundreds of contradictory examples.
This is nothing but a bit of specious rhetoric that appeals to people who want to assuage their conscience over a crime against a member of an abused subset of society. It has no basis in fact.
The hate is in the promotion of prejudice, in the speech that incites the action. We should not be having second-class victims, and that is what current hate crime laws promote.
Deemed worse by whom? Certainly not by those of us who think people are equal and should be treated so.
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What does Rodney king have to do with anything? Hate crimes legislation was already on the books at the time, and this opinion was actually written even before the Rodney King incident.
And as far as the quantitative support:
1. KELLINA M. CRAIG, “Retaliation, Fear, or Rage: An Investigation of African American and White Reactions to Racist Hate Crimes,” J Interpers Violence 14, no. 2 (February 1, 1999): 138-151.
1. JACK McDEVITT et al., “Consequences for Victims: A Comparison of Bias- and Non-Bias-Motivated Assaults,” American Behavioral Scientist 45, no. 4 (December 1, 2001): 697-713.
And this from a five minute search.