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Originally Posted by dippin
"Therefore, policy makers are accurate in their conceptualization of hate crimes as specially heinous and egregious because, at least for some populations, they are likely to provoke retaliation."
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this doesn't give your argument any credibility whatsoever, especially when those 'policymakers' also claimed that the growth and use of a weed on someones private property has a substantial effect on interstate commerce, whether that product is legal or not.
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Originally Posted by dippin
And crimes where the victim was a minority still receive much shorter sentences, on average.
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where does the fault lie with that?
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Yes, I agree. We all should be treated equally. That's why we need to do something to stop people from murdering gays. When a homosexual is murdered for being homosexual, that has an impact on the gay community. It's a form of intimidation, it's a communication of hatred to the community.
It doesn't apply if a gay man kills a gay man...because in all likelihood this murder wasn't motivated by a hatred of gays. There is no comparison.
I'm really not getting what you're arguing....
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I can see quite clearly you're not getting what i'm arguing. Especially when you're saying this
"That's why we need to do something to stop people from murdering gays." when we should all be saying this
"That's why we need to do something to stop people from murdering other people."
anything else is just favoring one portion of society over another, i.e. special protection.